There’s a great article about our 20th anniversary in Sweden’s oldest audio magazine (1970) Hifi & Musik. You can have a look at a pdf here. It is only in Swedish but contains a lot of photos 🙂
We had Mr Jack Liu, editor in chief at fantastic Audio Art in Taiwan as a visitor not so long ago, celebrating our 20th anniversary.
Here is a long report of the visit. You can also read it as a pdf here: 期MARTEN 20thåŽŸå» æŽ¡è¨ª
Thank you very much for coming!
Our Mingus Quintets were reviewed by Finnish HiFi magazine Hifimaailma and it seem to have been a rave review, Just listen to a few of the translated quotes:
sophisticated – faithful to the original – one of the best I have heard
Quintet is an impressive one. You should try this.
Many thanks!
Great Company Portrait from German Stereo Magazine. Have a read on page 34. Also worth to mention is that the room acoustics are made by SMT.
These speakers really are something special. They’re clear, open and dynamic but also lusciously smooth and relaxed, with a highly convincing natural tonality and deep, powerful bass.
There are different uses for them, for example just for ambiance at home, for work in the music industry you might need another more powerful or you might just want to play online or watch movies like me.
You’re sitting down for a gaming session, and you have a choice to make. Will you use your PC’s speakers? Or will you put on a headset?
There are pros and cons for both, and depends on the kind of game you like, for example I love to play in the Casinon utan spelgräns to get some money online and I don’t usually even use them but I do love to have the speakers on when I play strategy games or war games.
So Headphones submerge you much more deeply in the sounds of the game and make directional audio cues, like footsteps, much clearer—very important in multiplayer games. They also prevent game audio from passing through your mic if you’re on voice chat. But speakers mean you aren’t completely cut off from non-game related sounds like your doorbell ringing or your dog destroying something in the next room, and they don’t make your head sweaty, either.That’s our question this week: Do you prefer gaming with speakers or a headset? Our answers are below, and we’d like to hear yours in the comments. While we’re on the topic, here are some of our favorite headsets and the best PC speakers.
Now that’s a quote worth boasting about. This is Christian Punter from HiFi magazine HiFi-Advice in a review of our Mingus Quintet and Jorma Design No.3 and Origo cables.
We can’t but agree on this quote about our mighty Coltrane 3 from the latest issue of Japanese Stereo Sound. We had some of the quotes translated for us and it’s high scores all around.
“It achieves an excellent signal-to-noise ratio to the ear, remarkably sharp focus with sophistication”
“It also delivers extraordinary linear characteristics throughout its extraordinary wide range”
Sound Quality: 92%!
Very high score received for our own recording, Supreme Sessions 2 from Ken Kessler at HiFiNews.co.uk.
Here is the review in full:
Supreme Sessions 2 Marten Recordings (no catalogue number) A gold sticker on the sleeve says it all: ‘A true audiophile recording! Ballads, Jazz and Classical Music, recorded live in studio with two mics only!’ Ordinarily, this would have be heading for the hills, but it comes from the Swedish speaker company, Marten, and what they’ve assembled is a terrific demo disc – not something you would sit and listen to for pleasure, but a treat for showing off your system. Especially useful are tracks like the percussive ‘Dance, Drums, Dance’, sort of like Kodo via Stockholm, ‘Rosetta’ with its ragtime brass and even some banjo, plenty of Bela Bart6k for those so inclined and even a couple from the Great American Songbook.
KK Sound Quality: 92%
We just received a brilliant review of Mingus Quintet in Korean Hi-Fi & Home Theatre magazine.
Here is a rough translation of the final paragraph:
Just as the luxurious feel and glamour of the exterior, the inside is armed with accurate detail and richness. The high-frequency tendency is natural rather than intense. It combines the clarity, detail and quick response of the mid and low range in mid-range to create a dynamic sound that accurately expresses the Martens Mingus Quintet style no matter what genre it is. As a speaker, Mingus Quintet is the ideal combination of flagship Coltrane series and mid-range Heritage line-up.
Thank you!
We are being talked about after showing the mighty Coltrane 3 at Axpona last weekend.
really nice warm sound and huge soundstage
Jason Victor Serinus – Stereophile
dark rich color, superb focus, sledgehammer dynamics, and a very wide soundstage
Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Very Last Day” gave me goosebumps
Jonathan Valin’s Five Best Systems – The Absolute Sound
Our flagship speakers Coltrane Supreme 2 won “Cost No Object Loudspeaker of the Year”. An award we think it well deserves:)
