Today’s Favourite

Getz/Gilberto – The Girl from Ipanema. A vinyl classic that soothes our souls after busy day 🙂

The perfect Christmas gift?

German artist Petrus Wandrey (1939 – 2012), created this stereo system called ‘Venus’s Hifi’ for the Berliner Funkausstellung 1981. Rather something isn’t it? I don’t know what it sounds like but it sure looks pretty bombastic. You can buy it from Scandinavian auctioneer site Lauritz. Starting bid EUR15,000.

Would you be happy receiving this as a gift this Christmas? 🙂

Found on twowheels+

Music on the inside

Bjoern Ewers has created these ads for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with photos taken from the inside of instruments. Beautiful stuff!

Maybe we should make ads with photos of the insides of our speakers:)

World famous in Sweden

We just came back from the XTZ room where we listened to singer/actress Anna-Lotta Larsson. I don’t know if she’s famous abroad but she’s very big in Sweden. She actually apologised for being amped by a Bose speaker but it sounded really good anyway. She has such a lovely voice and the guy on piano is very talented as well. Thank you for the music:)

Today’s favourite

La Luna Brilla – Jennifer Warnes from the album ‘The Well ( Digitally Remastered )’. Beautiful tune!

Today’s favourite

We keep playing the track ‘Geronimo’s Free’ by Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls. It sounds awesome on our system.

Happy Swedish National Day

Every year on this day the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra performs a free concert in Slottsskogen conducted by the young, world famous and very talented Gustavo Dudamel. Jörgen took this photo when he went last year. He said it was pretty amazing and it seem to have been a really nice day. I hope it is the same this year.

We have a lot more from Munich so we’ll be back soon.
Lars

More music in Munich

We would’ve loved to go to the opera here in Munich, it’s supposed to be brilliant but there’s not enough time for that unfortunately. Maybe next time.

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New York Tragedy

After the week at CES in Las Vegas we thought it appropriate to enjoy a few days off in cool New York. It turned out to be very cool indeed with lots of snow and chilly winds but hey, New York is New York and you can have a great time whatever the weather. And we sure did.

Our fave breakfast place - Square Diner, Tribeca.

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More news from Marten

Right in time for the start of CES 2011 we have launched our brand new web site and proudly present it at marten.se. Have a look and tell us what you think. We spent a good few man-hours on getting this together, and think it works very well with Ulf Celander’s photos. Even if we do say that ourselves:)

If you are in Las Vegas for the CES 2011, we would like to welcome you to the Marten Tour. This year we have our own room with premiers for Coltrane 2 and M•Amp Mono Power Amplifier, as well as our M•Furniture range.

Coltrane 2 & M•AMP Mono Power Amplifier:
Marten, Venetian Room 30-130

You can also listen to our loudspeakers in these rooms:

Coltrane 2:
Engström & Engström, Venetian Room 29-128

Heritage Getz:
EAR USA, Venetian Room 30-112
Harmonic Tech, Venetian Room 30-209

Please come by and say hi. I will be back with more from CES 2011 in a bit

Lars