Duke 2 award

Our beloved Duke 2 just received a great award at the Australian Sound+Image Awards 2016.
Duke 2 is Highly Commended.

Marten Heritage Duke 2

Swedish loudspeaker company Marten delivers understated beauty and solid engineering in the Duke 2, the entry point of the mid-level Heritage range. it’s an elegant mid-sized sharp-angled standmount dressed in an oh-so classy gloss veneer, standing 40cm high and priced at $11,290 in matte finishes, $11,890 in gloss, so you might guess they feature ingredients that take them beyond your run-of-the mill standmounter.

They boast high quality Accuton drivers — a 25mm ceramic tweeter and a 7-inch ceramic mid/bass driver, which combine to deliver a transient-fast and detailed sound – fast fingers on steel guitar strings showed what these drivers can do best.

There’s an ultra-clean handling oftransients and a delivery of profound levels of detail that can become addictive. The bass register proved rich and surprisingly ample, attacking quite powerfully on both acoustic and electric lines. This is a small speaker that’s huge on quality.

Excellent review of our Duke

The Duke 2 is a highly refined transducer with a consistent set of satisfying qualities across important performance criteria, namely, detail, transient speed, soundstage and tonality. Audio performance is high and given the form factor and the choice of veneers and finishes, it will suit any appropriately-sized environment, be it classic or contemporary.

Thank you to brand new Australian audio magazine Audio Esoterica, for such a great review.

You can download and read it in full here.

Coltrane Supreme 2 – Meet Your Maker in HiFi+

the Marten Coltrane Supreme 2´s real success will not be measured in sales, but in the influence in exerts over the Marten range, and – in a wider perspective – the whole high-end loudspeaker market. It´s that important!

There’s a great article in the HiFi+ Loudspeaker Special, Issue no 123 of the UK magazine. Written by former editor in chief Roy Gregory and current editor in chief Alan Sircom. It’s all about our company and especially Coltrane Supreme 2.

High flying review of Bird 2

the Bird 2 is one of the finest examples of successful R&D in the world of loudspeakers

Great online review of our pride and joy Bird 2 at Finnish High End News by Keijo Tanskanen. Please have a read here.

Best Value 2015

We just had a excellent review for Django L in Chinese hifi magazine Hi-Fi & Hi-Vi Monthly. They dubbed our loudspeaker ”Best Value 2015”.

If you are a fan of jazz, rock or pop, it is strongly recommended that you listen to Django L, to personally feel that vibrant, full of life music and the dynamic appeal of it.

Thank you very much.

Great review!

The Miles 5 is presumably the most live-sounding speaker in this size! …and price range!

We just received a copy of German HiFi magazine StereoPlay 07/2014. The conclusion goes something like this:

The Miles 5 perfectly succeeds in creating unity. This is one of the nicest, most supreme, two-way loudspeaker in the absolute top class.

All pros no cons

We were always fascinated by the simplicity of the 2-way speakers, but never encountered such a solid build that so resolutely manages to bring 2-way audio to new heights.

Great review by Mats Meyer-Lie on Django L in Swedish HiFi & Musik. Here is the conclusion in english:

Django L can certainly produce bass, so deep that the room rattles and makes you gasp for breath. Django L is therefore one of the most versatile speakers we have heard in a long time. As comfortable with dubstep or hard rock as with acoustic jazz or frail chamber music.

I constantly found myself moved by the music instead of analysing the sound. Exactly what we all want really. A real magnificent, large scale speaker that everyone totally falls for.

Sure, they cost a pretty penny but it is a unusually victorious and well made creation, except for the german units, entirely Made In Sweden.

You can download the full review (in Swedish) here. Pdf, 1.2mb.

CES Show reports #2

A few more show reports from CES 2014:

 it sounded delicately detailed, with a superbly stable rendering of the recording venue

Stereophile

I was so amazed by the sound of the Marten Coltrane Supreme 2, that I totally forgot to even check what other equipment was in the room.

Positive Feedback Part 1
Positive Feedback Part 2

Coltrane Supreme II speakers driven by Pass Labs amps sounded superb and solid.

Analogplanet

To Have IT!

Django L. It is rather impressing that you can get so much music for the money. What are you waiting for? Get out there and listen!

Brilliant review in Swedish ‘Ljud & Bild‘ of our Django L by Sven Bilén. You can download a pdf here or read the translation beneath.

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Form still on form!

Marten FormFloor: Cutting-edge speaker married to advanced tech design

Great to find this recent article about our FormSeries. Steve Guttenberg at Cnet shows his love after a visit to our man Wes Bender in New York. Please have a read here.