Scandic Crown

Great Company Portrait from German Stereo Magazine. Have a read on page 34. Also worth to mention is that the room acoustics are made by SMT.

Munich High End!

Here we are again in lovely Munich. And this is the Marten & Jorma Design Room!

Brand new Coltrane Tenor 2 – Statement Edition, with the Jorma Design flagship cables inside. 

Brand new Jorma Phono

and Jorma USB Reference.

We are playing vinyl on this awesome refurbished Thorens TD124 turntable.

With a 12”  Thomas Schick tonearm and a ZYX Cartridge.

The turntable is connected with Jorma Design Phono of course to the Whest Titan Pro phono amp.

We’re playing tapes on this really cool old reel-to-reel player from Nagra, IV-S.

This is brand new Eric from Engström. A real powerful Tube Amplifier.

Here is also the Select DAC II from MSB

with its two power supplies.

And finally the Aurender media player.

Make your way here if you can, it sounds awesome!

This is our latest release from Marten Recordings: Duo Granmo-Berg, a very dynamic violin and marimba live recording cd. It will be available to buy soon in our shop.

Brand New Coltrane Tenor 2

Our best model so far?

Find out more here.

Mingus Quintet and Jorma Design review

These speakers really are something special. They’re clear, open and dynamic but also lusciously smooth and relaxed, with a highly convincing natural tonality and deep, powerful bass.

There are different uses for them, for example just for ambiance at home, for work in the music industry you might need another more powerful or you might just want to play online or watch movies like me.

You’re sitting down for a gaming session, and you have a choice to make. Will you use your PC’s speakers? Or will you put on a headset?

There are pros and cons for both, and depends on the kind of game you like, for example I love to play in the Casinon utan spelgräns to get some money online and I don’t usually even use them but I do love to have the speakers on when I play strategy games or war games.
So Headphones submerge you much more deeply in the sounds of the game and make directional audio cues, like footsteps, much clearer—very important in multiplayer games. They also prevent game audio from passing through your mic if you’re on voice chat. But speakers mean you aren’t completely cut off from non-game related sounds like your doorbell ringing or your dog destroying something in the next room, and they don’t make your head sweaty, either.

That’s our question this week: Do you prefer gaming with speakers or a headset? Our answers are below, and we’d like to hear yours in the comments. While we’re on the topic, here are some of our favorite headsets and the best PC speakers.

 

Now that’s a quote worth boasting about. This is Christian Punter from HiFi magazine HiFi-Advice in a review of our Mingus Quintet and Jorma Design No.3 and Origo cables.

Check it out here!

What’s in the box?

Or rather, what box is it?

Exciting preparations for Munich High End 2017.

How speakers make sound

If you want to know how a loudspeaker works, check this out.

“An all out and cutting edge loudspeaker system”

We can’t but agree on this quote about our mighty Coltrane 3 from the latest issue of Japanese Stereo Sound. We had some of the quotes translated for us and it’s high scores all around.

“It achieves an excellent signal-to-noise ratio to the ear, remarkably sharp focus with sophistication”

“It also delivers extraordinary linear characteristics throughout its extraordinary wide range”

Great demo today!

At Akkelis Audio in Gothenburg, Sweden. We are here tomorrow too, come in for a listen! Demo times at 11am and 12.30pm.

The Stockholm High End Show 2017

We will show our Mingus Quintet as well as Jorma Design cables. We will aslo premiere our Supreme Sessions on vinyl as well as MSB electronics, Analog Domain, Gigawatt, Whest Audio and NAT.

Please come and have a listen! We will be in the Gripsholm A room at Sheraton Stockholm, 18 – 19 February.

High Score!

Sound Quality: 92%!

Very high score received for our own recording, Supreme Sessions 2 from Ken Kessler at HiFiNews.co.uk.

Here is the review in full:

Supreme Sessions 2 Marten Recordings (no catalogue number) A gold sticker on the sleeve says it all: ‘A true audiophile recording! Ballads, Jazz and Classical Music, recorded live in studio with two mics only!’ Ordinarily, this would have be heading for the hills, but it comes from the Swedish speaker company, Marten, and what they’ve assembled is a terrific demo disc – not something you would sit and listen to for pleasure, but a treat for showing off your system. Especially useful are tracks like the percussive ‘Dance, Drums, Dance’, sort of like Kodo via Stockholm, ‘Rosetta’ with its ragtime brass and even some banjo, plenty of Bela Bart6k for those so inclined and even a couple from the Great American Songbook.

KK Sound Quality: 92%