And finally, The Room!

It took a while but finally we could find a moment to post this. All of the diffusors were delivered at midnight the night before the show so the room wasn’t ready until just a couple of hours before the show opened! Such a great feeling to do the final touches after so much hard and stressful work.

The Coltrane Supreme 2 really sound absolutely fantastic.

All together with the rest of the coolest stuff:

Starting off with:

This is what came so late but it was worth the wait. SMT‘s amazing diffusor/reflection ceiling.

Jorma Design Statement – brand new cables

Pass Labs Mono Power Amps: XS300

Pass Labs XS pre amps

Whest Audio Phonostage Ref 5 MK4

Bergmann Audio Sleipner turntable with Ortofon Mc Anna cartridge.

MSB Diamond Dac and UMT Plus

As all of us main exhibitors (Marten. Jorma Design and SMT) are Swedish we gave the entrance a slight Swedish feel with birch trunks.

Dan Meinwald doing his thing

We’ll be back tomorrow, cheers!

“Before anything else,

preparation is the key to success”

said Alexander Graham Bell, perhaps the worlds first audiophile. Preparing is exactly what we’re doing these days yet another time at the CES Show 2014 in glorious Las Vegas. There’s a lot work left but tomorrow the preparation should be done.

We will get back to you soon, with more stuff from it all.

Cheers

Something’s going on…

at the marten site. Have a look!

Marten Demo at Lasses HiFi

Falun is a beautiful place, especially in the warm, breezy, Swedish summer that we have now.

We’re here because of a special demo at our great dealer Lasse that has ‘Lasses Hifi‘.

The system sounded great with the MSB Diamond Dac, MSB S201 Power Amplifier, Jorma Prime cables, Coltrane Tenor and of course Django L .

You can read more (in Swedish) at ljudochbild.se.

After a hectic day it’s time to chillax. Cheers!

Back again!

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

Munich High End 2013

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

CES: day 3

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.

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CES!

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

Christmas came early

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.

Super demo at Marten Centre

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.