So here we are in lovely Munich yet again. The room is all set up and it sounds awesome. Sharing with Nagra and Purist Audio Design makes it both more fun and also easier to participate in this rather well organised hifi show.
This is the system set up with Django L
Mid day we changed it over to Coltrane Tenor
They both sounded great in their own ways of course.
If you’re around, come see us in atrium 4, room 2.og F 214
Only a little more than a week to the annual High End Show in Munich! We will show:
Django L and
Coltrane Tenor together with Nagra electronics and Purist Audio Design cables. We’ll also make use of Svanå Miljöteknik’s excellent diffusors as usual. Now, that sounds like a good combo doesn’t it?:) You can follow us right here on this blog as we’ll try and update as often as we can.
Come and visit us! We will be in Booth nr: Atrium 4 2.OG F 214.
Welcome
Here’s last years success Django XL in suite 29-121, The Antelope Audio Room. They sound wicked with this rather complex setup.
In the middle there’s a sort of retro-futuristic rack that contains an Orion 32 audio master clock, a Zodiac Gold 10M Master clock, Kaplan cable connections, Bully Sound Company BSC 60s Power amplifier, Music Vault Diamond, EAR 834-P Phono Preamp. It sounds as good as it looks cool.
The show finally started and there’s been loads of visitors today. We’re sharing room with Nagra again this time, just like in Munich.
Here’s Leif, doing the fine tuning.
The new Coltrane Tenor sound awesome together with Nagra’s electronics and Jorma Design’s cables.
We also have a few pairs of speaker scattered across CES but we’ll chat about that later.
Cheers
There’s only a few weeks to go and the excitement is building at Marten HQ. Las Vegas CES 2013 is just around the corner. (Oh, and there’s Christmas too).
We’re launching two new models at the CES – Django L and Coltrane Tenor.
Yes, that’s right – Django L is here! Following in response to last year’s success, Django XL, we had to build this. We’re really happy with the result. In fact it’s exceeded our expectations. This one is 2-way, with bass units from Norwegian SEAS and tweeter from Accuton.
We’re really proud of Coltrane Tenor too. It has newly designed bass units and we think it sounds great.
We had a sneak preview in our hometown of Gothenburg as we talked about in our previous post, but the world premiere will be at the CES. We hope you can visit us in Las Vegas, but if not, just follow all the action here.
We’ll be right back with even more stuff.
We all had a lot of fun yesterday at Marten Centre. Loads of audiophiles and other nerds 
came for a party at our centre in Gothenburg. There’s a really cool show in town called ‘Gothenburg Audio Visual 2012‘. We are actually part of the show but on our own premises.
Our newly refreshed big listening room was packed all night. Leif played music on the Coltrane Momentos. This is the whole set up:
Loudspeakers: Marten Coltrane Momento
Power amp: Marten M.Amp
Pre amp: Marten M.Pre (prototype, more news about this coming soon)
DAC/Transport: MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Data CD transport
Record player: Bergmann Sleipner
Pickup: Ortofon MC Anna
Phono pre: Whest Audio MC Ref V MK IV
Cables: Jorma Design Prime
Aucoustics: Svanå Miljöteknik
It sounded awesome!
In the shop we played music on the Django XL with Townshend Rock 7 record player alternating with Bergmann Magne record player and Bladelius media player with NAT electronics.
Great music filled fun all night:)
If you are in town, please come for a visit between 12 – 4pm tomorrow.
We are so happy to read this review from Roy Gregory at HiFi+. You can download the review as a pdf here.
This is the best balanced and most musically satisfying speaker I’ve heard from the company – by some distance.
Thank you very much Mr Gregory.
We realised that we were part of a ‘The PFO Audio Oasis!’ at THE Show in Newport Beach. Our man Dan Meinwald exhibited with his usual stuff and of course he won the award. David W. Robinson start off his article with
Here’s a big no-surprise: Dan Meinwald’s room was sounding superb, as always.
Thank you very much to PFO.
Almost first in today was Adrian Bankewitz from Accuton with family.
What a great place Munich is. Walking around in this beautiful city in the spring weather is a real treat. Popping into a bierhalle for a drink here and there makes it all even better:)
The High End fair is exactly how you would expect it to be in Germany, neat, tidy and well organised with a lot of space for everyone. We had our room set up and ready yesterday evening and it’s actually sounding pretty darn good if we may say that ourselves.
Unfortunately I had a little memory mishap and forgot my Canon 50D that I usually use for all the blog photos but luckily, Leif’s little handy Olympus F1.8 takes great pictures so that is what we’ll be using for this show.
The Coltrane 2, M•Amp and M•Furniture set up with Jorma Design’s brand new cables, Unity. We also use SMT’s lovely looking diffusors that we had in our room at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
The FormFloors, the FromSub and Bladelius Tyr, playing audio from a MacBook Air also makes for a pretty neat second set up.
Even if the room is quite large we actually filled it most of this rather busy day. Tomorrow the show will open for non-audio business people so maybe it will be even busier.
See you tomorrow with more form the rest of the show.
Lars
