Marten Speakers

Sushi and High End, Taipei Aug 2010

Leif — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:44:55 +0000

A report from the TAA International Hi-End Hifi-Show 2010.

More will come!

Leif

It’s Valentines day

Lars — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:26:00 +0000

for us that is. Michael Valentine, the avid hifi enthusiast and of course famous underwater photographer has written a great review of our Coltrane Momentos. He has been working on films such as The Da Vinci Code and The Bourne Supremacy and has now created this very interesting read. Please have a look by clicking here.
Below is a photo from the review of the Coltrane Momentos in the making.

See you soon
Lars

The Martenmobile

Leif — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:52:05 +0000

Our new company car

Marten in Munich May 6-9

Lars — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Please drop by Montegiro´s both in Halle 4, Stand 15 and pay us a visit at the M.O.C. convention centre in Munich. We will be there Thursday until Saturday, we are not exhibiting at the sideshow Hifi Deluxe this year.

You can also listen to our new model Getz at the Atrium 4, room F114 together with DaVinci audiolabes and Orpheus electronics.

Do you want to schedule an appointment with us? Please send us an email.

We hope to see you in Munich!

Leif & Jörgen

Visitors from Taiwan

Lars — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:23:33 +0000

Last weekend we had a visit all the way from Taiwan to Marten Centre in Gothenburg. Besides Leif in the picture there is Leo Yeh who runs a very ambitious online magazine called My-hiend.com as well as his girlfriend Carrie who works at the Taiwanese embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. This couple spent a couple of days in Sweden visiting us and some other manufacturers. You can follow the whole thing here>>

Many thanks for the visit!

Jörgen

Jazz Artist

Lars — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:38:03 +0000

We found these illustrations of Jazz legends on the inspirational blog ‘The best Part‘ and loved them. They are drawn by very talented Ian Johnson. Lovely strong colours and fine geometrical lines mixed with realistic facial drawings.

Wouldn’t one of these look good on the wall behind your system?

Lars

Brilliant review of the Dukes

Lars — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:59:16 +0000

“The Marten Dukes are just plain amazing”
A big thank you to Robert H. Levi at Positive Feedback for this brilliant review of the Dukes. Please have a read here.

A groovy landscape

Lars — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:54:05 +0000

Is this a view from the moon?

It’s actually a picture taken with an electron microscope (magnified a thousand times).

All of these photos are of a vinyl album, unfortunately we don’t know which. The photographer Chris Supranowitz is a researcher at the Institute of Optics, Rochester University, specialising in this type of photography.

Found on synthgear.com

Lars

Bona at Nefertiti!

Leif — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:29:01 +0000

Yesterday I was with some friends, at the excellent jazz-club Nefertiti in Gothenburg, to see and hear the fantastic musician Richard Bona from Cameroon. He is a long time favourite of mine and I have heard him live several times before.

It was a great concert which had a wide variety of styles. He mixes jazz, funk, blues and African rythms in a very attractive and sometimes genius way. He is a real master of his instrument (bass), and his band was not bad either. Especially the drummer Obed Calvaire and the keyboard player Etienne Stadwijk.

He has released a new album called “The Ten Shades of Blues”. I have not heard the album yet but he played a few songs from it and it was very promising. The sound quality is usually very good on Bona´s records.

Thank you Richard Bona for a great concert.

Leif

Kaohsiung Hi-End 2010, Taiwan

Leif — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:57:09 +0000

Here I am in the lovely city Kaohsiung (second largest city after Taipei) in south of Taiwan. This is the 7th time in Taiwan for me, but only the second time in Kaohsiung. The first time was for a couple of chaotic hours 6 years ago, so it was nice to see more of this city and stay for a number of days.

The reason I was here was for the Hi-End show that is held yearly in March. The show was at the big Ambassador Hotel downtown in Kaohsiung.

The surrounding was lovely and the weather was nice with a temperature of 25-30 degrees C, especially when compared with Sweden that had -5 degrees C and snow at the same time.

I was invited by Mr Lee from Genesis Audio, our dealer in Kaohsiung and Soundray Electronics, our distributor in Taiwan.

We were playing with our new Coltrane Momento in Walnut finish, double ASR Luna 8 amplifiers in bi-amping mode, Bladelius Gondul M LE dsic-player and Jorma Design Prime cabling. It was a fairly big room of 50 sqm and quite nice acoustics and I must say the sound was very nice.

Here are a couple of pics from the show. Sorry for the sometimes bad quality but I used my iPhone for some of the photos. I must also thank my good friend Mr Leo Yeh for lending some of his excellent photos from his forum www.my-hiend.com .

Nice flower arrangement in the lobby.

Two new co-workers in the Marten company?

Our new Getz with beautiful company.

Nice set-up with Sonus Faber, Audio Research and Playback System.

Stylish new Stello electronics.

Vivid Audio Giya together with Burmester.

Always nice sounding Delight Audio system.

Me talking about the Momento.

Dynaudio / Audio Research.

Nice Venture loudspeakers.

There was alot of records for sale. Both new and second hand.

Taiwan made Zorin Audio turntable.

That’s all from the Hi-End show in Kaohsiung.

I will post more from this trip later on.

Leif