From £17,250.00
Music streamer with built-in Roon Server, Major DAC, analogue inputs and relay-based analogue volume control. Connect to suitable power amplifiers or active speakers.
The Grimm Audio MU2 combines the music server, digital-to-analogue conversion and preamplifier in one chassis. It is a strong choice when you want to keep your loudspeakers and power amplification but simplify the components ahead of them.
The MU2 is a house favourite at Hidden Home Technology. Read Daniel Crick’s first-hand MU2 review for our listening impressions, or watch our MU2 video review. These are our opinions, separate from the manufacturer specifications below.
Grimm’s discrete Major DAC works with its FPGA processing and low-jitter clock. Relay-based analogue volume control serves both digital playback and the analogue inputs. Connections include AES/EBU, coaxial S/PDIF and optical digital inputs, XLR and RCA analogue inputs, XLR and RCA outputs, and a headphone output. A turntable needs a suitable phono stage before an analogue line input; the Mola Mola Lupe is one option.
Roon Server is built in; a Roon licence and any paid music-service subscriptions are separate. UPnP rendering and TIDAL Connect are also supported. Use external USB or NAS storage, or specify the optional internal SSD. This is not a speaker power amplifier: passive speakers still require amplification.
Choose MU2 for an integrated server, DAC and analogue preamplifier. Choose MU1 with the Tambaqui if you prefer a two-box digital front end or want to select the DAC separately. Neither arrangement is automatically better for every system. We can help match the connections, volume control and amplification to your sources and speakers.
Manufacturer specifications and documentation.
Part of the Hidden Home Ten, in systems 2, 3 and 5.
Goes with: Grimm Audio PA1.
