Happy Chinese New Year

Celebrating the Year of the Dragon. Happy New Year from Marten.

Win a pair of Marten Django speakers

Django is the new model from Marten for 2012. They will have their official world premier at CES 2012.

As a celebration of the release of these fantastic new speakers, we have one pair that will go to a lucky winner. Please go to www.martencompetition.com and participate.

Good luck!

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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More Hi-Fi in Munich

Almost first in today was Adrian Bankewitz from Accuton with family.

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We ♥ Munich (and high-fidelity)

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

Great review on FormFloor

A big thank you to Victor Chavira at Positive Feedback for this great review.

“If you are in search of a speaker with exceedingly clear voice and dynamic force to fill a medium sized room with panoramic sound, put the Marten FormFloors at the top of your list. Highly recommended!”

Please read more here.

FastCo – Design

Massive thanks to Suzanne LaBarre at Fast Company – Design in New York for this fine article with a different twist. Please have a read about our Form speakers here . They have used a good few of our great photos by Ulf Celander.

Momento in the Land of Smiles:)

We have a brand new distributor in Bangkok – Thailand, the home of beautiful silk, delicious green curry and long sandy beaches.

Unfortunately we were not able to go to the very exclusive ‘BAV Hi-End show 2011′ in Bangkok where they exhibited. We don’t want to brag:) but we heard that our speakers were very well received and apparently some customers even suggested that they were ‘best in show ‘.

A big welcome our new distributor:
Elpha Shaw Co. Ltd
elpashaw@cscoms.com

And the winner is…

Marten Heritage Bird!

A big thank you to Audio Art in Taiwan for this awesome award:

More attention!

We like attention so here are a good few more links to where we’ve been talked about around the internet. Please have a look:

“No question that the Coltrane II is an excellent speaker”

Jonathan Valin – The Absolute Sound

“In every case, the Martens sounded outstanding.”

UHF Mag

“potential best-of-show system”

HomeTheater.com

“a sublime sound”

UltimateAVmag.com

“of the sweetest, tamest treble I heard at the show.”

Dennis Burger – HOMEtechTELL
We were also mentioned on these blogs:

audiogon.com
highendpalace.com
hifi.ir
ultimateavmag.com

Thank you very much to all of you.

Marten