A distant dream

The Dream Weekend 27-28/11/09
It might seem like a distant dream now after the holidays and CES but the Marten Showroom was crowded with audio lovers on the last weekend in November 09.

Erik Andersson and Ola Hesselvall, demonstrated their latest amplifier project: The Dream. This has been legendary audio designer Erik’s dream for many years and he has really put all of his experience and heart into it.

The tube amplifier has direct heated triodes (Russian GM70) which are unusually powerful for being single ended (40W). The setup was really something, with our new reference model Coltrane Momento, Jorma Prime cables, Bladelius Embla CD-player, EAT Forte turntable, Helius Omega 12″ tone-arm, Einstein Audio TU3 cartridge and Einstein Audio “Little Big Phono” phonostage.

The furniture used was G.A.D.-Marten. By that we mean the audio furniture and not the brand of the sofa we sat on. And no, it’s not from IKEA:)

Hesselvall Audio The Dream in cool bright red.

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CES 2010 – Afterglow

Zine Noodles Dim Sum, a favourite for a quiet lunch in one of the neighbouring resorts to the Venetian, Palazzo Resort.

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CES 2010 – All over

So, the show is over and we left sunny Las Vegas for cool New York

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CES 2010 – HiFi HiFi HiFi

Great day today. Loads of good music and hifi systems. There’s only one day left and we have a lot of rooms yet to see. Here are a few of the coolest ones, in our opinion.

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CES 2010 – TGI Friday

What type of cold do you get in a place like Las Vegas? A fake one of course. Perfumed, air-conditioned air plus jet lag can feel like a real bad cold but after a good nights sleep you feel ok again. Even just a fake cold can make your energy levels low so this day dragged on a bit.

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CES 2010 – All systems go

It’s funny in Vegas, without windows and clocks anywhere, you can spend a whole lot of time indoors without any idea of what time of the day it is. When you finally walk outside you are shocked to find a beautiful day with blinding sunlight…

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CES 2010 – Getting warmer

Finally in glitzy Las Vegas and all that comes with it; casinos, Elvis impersonators, drive-in weddings and of course the biggest Electronics Show in the world. As you get used to the perfumed air (they actually scent the air in most of the casinos) it is quite a cool place to be.

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CES 2010 – warming up

We are really looking forward to participate at next years Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. We shipped the Marten Coltrane Momentos in two huge boxes a couple of days ago.

Here are the press releases for our CES event:

It would be great to see you there.

Oh, Happy Holidays everyone.

Lars

The great wall of sound in Beijing

So there we were in Beijing at the biggest dealer of hig end equipment.  The dealer is called “Superwave”. This is an amazing shop with 16 listening rooms and lots and lots of high end stuff. This shop is well worth a visit.

Mr Cheng, the owner of “Superwave Group”, has 7 more shops in Beijing.

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Hifi & Surround 2009 in Copenhagen

Marten’s new distributor in Denmark, Absolute Hifi, sorted out a room for us at the Hifi & Surround show in Copenhagen last weekend. It’s not the biggest of HiFi show, but it concentrates on quality rather than quantity and also, it is always fun to visit Copenhagen/Denmark.

Loudspeakers Marten Heritage Bird, Power amps; the Atlas model from Aesthetix, Phono stage Aesthetix IO, Preamp Aesthetix Calypso, Media player from qsonix and Turntable from German TW Acustic. This fabulous reference model is called Raven Black Night. Thanks to Audionet from HiFiForum.nu for the photo.

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