Almost first in today was Adrian Bankewitz from Accuton with family.
What a great place Munich is. Walking around in this beautiful city in the spring weather is a real treat. Popping into a bierhalle for a drink here and there makes it all even better:)
The High End fair is exactly how you would expect it to be in Germany, neat, tidy and well organised with a lot of space for everyone. We had our room set up and ready yesterday evening and it’s actually sounding pretty darn good if we may say that ourselves.
Unfortunately I had a little memory mishap and forgot my Canon 50D that I usually use for all the blog photos but luckily, Leif’s little handy Olympus F1.8 takes great pictures so that is what we’ll be using for this show.
The Coltrane 2, M•Amp and M•Furniture set up with Jorma Design’s brand new cables, Unity. We also use SMT’s lovely looking diffusors that we had in our room at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
The FormFloors, the FromSub and Bladelius Tyr, playing audio from a MacBook Air also makes for a pretty neat second set up.
Even if the room is quite large we actually filled it most of this rather busy day. Tomorrow the show will open for non-audio business people so maybe it will be even busier.
See you tomorrow with more form the rest of the show.
Lars
We are very happy to participate with our latest models at Europe’s biggest High End Audio trade fair in Munich this year. High End has been going since 1983 which is pretty old in Audio circuits. We will exhibit Coltrane 2 and our own Mono Power Amplifier M•Amp as well as Jorma Design cables and Svanå Miljöteknink Diffusors. It would be great if you came to visit us in room Atrium 4 2.OG E214, we’ll be there from May 19 – 22.
This is what it looked like last year.
You’re very welcome to visit us.
Lars
A big thank you to Victor Chavira at Positive Feedback for this great review.
“If you are in search of a speaker with exceedingly clear voice and dynamic force to fill a medium sized room with panoramic sound, put the Marten FormFloors at the top of your list. Highly recommended!”
Please read more here.
After the week at CES in Las Vegas we thought it appropriate to enjoy a few days off in cool New York. It turned out to be very cool indeed with lots of snow and chilly winds but hey, New York is New York and you can have a great time whatever the weather. And we sure did.
Our fave breakfast place - Square Diner, Tribeca.
Massive thanks to Suzanne LaBarre at Fast Company – Design in New York for this fine article with a different twist. Please have a read about our Form speakers here . They have used a good few of our great photos by Ulf Celander.
We have a brand new distributor in Bangkok – Thailand, the home of beautiful silk, delicious green curry and long sandy beaches.
Unfortunately we were not able to go to the very exclusive ‘BAV Hi-End show 2011’ in Bangkok where they exhibited. We don’t want to brag:) but we heard that our speakers were very well received and apparently some customers even suggested that they were ‘best in show ‘.
A big welcome our new distributor:
Elpha Shaw Co. Ltd
elpashaw@cscoms.com
A big thank you to Audio Art in Taiwan for this awesome award:
We like attention so here are a good few more links to where we’ve been talked about around the internet. Please have a look:
“No question that the Coltrane II is an excellent speaker”
Jonathan Valin – The Absolute Sound
“In every case, the Martens sounded outstanding.”
“potential best-of-show system”
“a sublime sound”
“of the sweetest, tamest treble I heard at the show.”
Dennis Burger – HOMEtechTELL
We were also mentioned on these blogs:
audiogon.com
highendpalace.com
hifi.ir
ultimateavmag.com
Thank you very much to all of you.
Marten
Since CES 2011 we have received a lot of attention at different places around the internet. Here are some of the mentions we’ve had:
“The system looked and sounded truly wonderful, and both amps and speakers are well worth checking out.”
Alan Sircom at The Absolute Sound
“At last year’s CES, many of my favorite rooms featured Sweden’s Marten speakers. The same held true this year.”
Thank you for the music:) Erick Lichte, at stereophile
“So, how did it sound? Simply put, it was outstanding, highly detailed, very transparent and musical at the same time.”
“Another Swedish company making an excellent impression was Marten“
“This was one of the few rooms to treat the room, and it contributed to an intimate, stimulating demonstration.”
“Uber bass resolution.”
“Sweden’s Marten is well-regarded for its high-end speakers and takes a fair amount of pride in their audiophile-pleasing performance.”
A massive thank you to all of you, from all of us here at Marten.