A distant dream

The Dream Weekend 27-28/11/09
It might seem like a distant dream now after the holidays and CES but the Marten Showroom was crowded with audio lovers on the last weekend in November 09.

Erik Andersson and Ola Hesselvall, demonstrated their latest amplifier project: The Dream. This has been legendary audio designer Erik’s dream for many years and he has really put all of his experience and heart into it.

The tube amplifier has direct heated triodes (Russian GM70) which are unusually powerful for being single ended (40W). The setup was really something, with our new reference model Coltrane Momento, Jorma Prime cables, Bladelius Embla CD-player, EAT Forte turntable, Helius Omega 12″ tone-arm, Einstein Audio TU3 cartridge and Einstein Audio “Little Big Phono” phonostage.

The furniture used was G.A.D.-Marten. By that we mean the audio furniture and not the brand of the sofa we sat on. And no, it’s not from IKEA:)

Hesselvall Audio The Dream in cool bright red.

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Reporting straight from Shantou HiFi Show

Hello and welcome to the new Marten Speaker blog.

In this space you can find out news about Marten and general High End Audio. We will update fairly frequently and also upload a lot of photos, connected to our Flickr photostream where you will be able to find a more extensive collection of images, such as the Marten speaker collection.

We start off with going all the way to China. There we will participate at the Shantou HiFi Show 09 at the Regency Hotel, where we have an introduction to make to the world. Please come back and read/see more about it later.

We hope you will enjoy following us on this space.

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