CES!

The show finally started and there’s been loads of visitors today. We’re sharing room with Nagra again this time, just like in Munich.

Here’s Leif, doing the fine tuning.

The new Coltrane Tenor sound awesome together with Nagra’s electronics and Jorma Design’s cables.

We also have a few pairs of speaker scattered across CES but we’ll chat about that later.

Cheers

A room with a view

The view from our room at the Venetian Las Vegas.

Yes, we’re here yet again for high end audio, fun and of course lots of music. Please come and see us in room 29229 if you’re in the area. The show starts on Tuesday but our room is almost ready so maybe we have time for some relaxing. We’ll show you more tomorrow.

Cheers

Happy New Year from Sweden!

Live long and prosper! \\//.

New Competition

We’re so happy with our latest model, Django L that we want to give it away.

So we’ve created a simple competition, though you’ll need to know a little about us, and Sweden.

Click here to be in with a chance of winning a pair of Django L

Christmas came early

There’s only a few weeks to go and the excitement is building at Marten HQ. Las Vegas CES 2013 is just around the corner. (Oh, and there’s Christmas too).

We’re launching two new models at the CES – Django L and Coltrane Tenor.

Yes, that’s right – Django L is here! Following in response to last year’s success, Django XL, we had to build this. We’re really happy with the result. In fact it’s exceeded our expectations. This one is 2-way, with bass units from Norwegian SEAS and tweeter from Accuton.

We’re really proud of Coltrane Tenor too. It has newly designed bass units and we think it sounds great.

We had a sneak preview in our hometown of Gothenburg as we talked about in our previous post, but the world premiere will be at the CES. We hope you can visit us in Las Vegas, but if not, just follow all the action here.

We’ll be right back with even more stuff.

Sneaky preview

This snowy Saturday we had a little preview party inGothenburg. Quite a good few people came around in spite of the weather and had a listen to our new stuff. We will come back soon with more info on this but in the mean time you may have a look at the photos below and see if you can spot anything out of the ordinary:)

See you in the next few days.

The perfect Christmas gift?

German artist Petrus Wandrey (1939 – 2012), created this stereo system called ‘Venus’s Hifi’ for the Berliner Funkausstellung 1981. Rather something isn’t it? I don’t know what it sounds like but it sure looks pretty bombastic. You can buy it from Scandinavian auctioneer site Lauritz. Starting bid EUR15,000.

Would you be happy receiving this as a gift this Christmas? 🙂

Found on twowheels+

New Django XL test

Many thanks to Sven Bilen at Swedish Ljud&Bild for a brilliant test of our Django XL.

It sounds amazingly right with a very large soundstage and both body and soul.

Six out of six stars, not bad eh? 🙂

Django XL review in Stereophile

Marten’s Django XL gave me the best sound I have ever heard in my room. Highly recommended.

Massive thanks again to Erick Lichte for a great review.

Please download and read here (pdf 5.7mb).

Super demo at Marten Centre

We all had a lot of fun yesterday at Marten Centre. Loads of audiophiles and other nerds 🙂 came for a party at our centre in Gothenburg. There’s a really cool show in town called ‘Gothenburg Audio Visual 2012‘. We are actually part of the show but on our own premises.

Our newly refreshed big listening room was packed all night. Leif played music on the Coltrane Momentos. This is the whole set up:

Loudspeakers: Marten Coltrane Momento
Power amp: Marten M.Amp
Pre amp: Marten M.Pre (prototype, more news about this coming soon)
DAC/Transport: MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Data CD transport
Record player: Bergmann Sleipner
Pickup: Ortofon MC Anna
Phono pre: Whest Audio MC Ref V MK IV
Cables: Jorma Design Prime
Aucoustics: Svanå Miljöteknik

It sounded awesome!

In the shop we played music on the Django XL with Townshend Rock 7 record player alternating with Bergmann Magne record player and Bladelius media player with NAT electronics.

Great music filled fun all night:)

If you are in town, please come for a visit between 12 – 4pm tomorrow.