The weather is always lovely under the painted ceiling at the Venetian:)

Here’s some more stuff from our floor.

Bright red electronics from Oracle Audio.

As well as shiny turn tables. Good stuff.

Oh, and here is of course the Djangos in Dan’s room together with the usual E.A.R. electronics.

Cozy lighting in Prima Luna‘s room.

Inside Prima Luna.

Good sounds in the Lansche Audio room. It almost seems they arranged their stuff according to the sunlight.

And a snake pit of cables behind:)

Rather shapely loudspeakers from Kondo.

Cool sounds and colours from Martin Logan.

Here are the delicious stone crab claws at Joe’s we were talking about yesterday. We spent the evening there with Henry Ahn from SAEM Energy in Korea and his lovely family. They fly these claws fresh from Florida everyday. Apparently they never kill any crabs, they just nip one of their claws off every year and let it grow out again. Must be really annoying to be one of them crabs eh?

Cheers

We keep playing the track ‘Geronimo’s Free’ by Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls. It sounds awesome on our system.

Back at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for CES 2012. Marten have been exhibiting for more than a decade at CES and every year is more fun than the previous. We have now opened the doors to the Marten room and the show is already busy.

Leif is setting up the brilliant electronics we use from MBS Technology.

Of course they’re placed on our own M•Furniture audio bench.

So are our M•Amp Mono blocks.

We also make use of the transparent diffusors from Svanå Miljöteknik, just like last year.

The calm before the storm. Leif arriving to the room just before kick off to do the final fine tuning.

If you are at CES, please pay us a visit. We’re in the Venetian suite 30228. Welcome to have a listen to our new Djangos.

We’ll be back with more tomorrow.

Hello U.S.A.

Here we are again in glimmering Las Vegas preparing for CES 2012. We have a feeling this years show will be cooler than ever with all the attention the Djangos already have had.

Also, we really hope you all had nice holidays and, Happy New Year:)

See you soon.

As a celebration of the release of these fantastic new speakers, we have one pair that will go to a lucky winner. Please go to www.martencompetition.com and participate.

Good luck!

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.”

Key Kim at Stereotimes

“Another Swedish company making an excellent impression was Marten“

the Audio Beat

“This was one of the few rooms to treat the room, and it contributed to an intimate, stimulating demonstration.”

Dagogo.com

“Uber bass resolution.”

Audio Federation

“Sweden’s Marten is well-regarded for its high-end speakers and takes a fair amount of pride in their audiophile-pleasing performance.”

Paul Ridden at Gizmag

A massive thank you to all of you, from all of us here at Marten.

We received a lot of attention for our brilliant diffusors from Svanå Miljöteknik in Sweden.

Apparently there's a famous building in the background but we keep the focus on more important things:)

These diffusors are the nicest looking ones that I have ever seen. They are normally rather colossal with the WAF factor on a bare minimum.

We had them towering around our whole listening area and they really helped compensating for the fact that the space was rather small.

The layered clear acrylic made for a sheer, delicate look and participated in creating a clean sound. They also come in other finishes such as veneered mdf.

Here they are together with our latest loudspeaker, the mighty Coltrane 2.

That’s the last we have from CES 2011

Bye bye Vegas, see you next year.

Cheers.

Lars

Neli and Leif

These are the new, rather cool looking, liquid cooled tube amplifiers from Audio Power Labs.

This room was very enjoyable. EmmLabs, PassLabs and Sony had this awesome multichannel setup with IsoMic recordings from Kimber. It really sounded as if you where there, in a live audience. All reverb from the instruments and audience noises were all around you. Brilliant!

Huge, new Mono Power Amplifiers from Boulder. 200 kilos each!

Fantastic turntable from DaVinci Audio Labs.

Very nice people, the creators from DaVinci Audio Labs.

Quite cool, retro looking Momentum Mono blocks from Dan D’Agostino.

We went downstairs again and in the Octave electronics room, we listened to some nice sounds in the afternoon sun light.

Very stylish Scandinavian looking stuff from Finish Pen Audio. Perfect example of how form really can meet function.

This is almost about it from CES, there might be a little more. We really look forward to next year.

Lars

M•Amp by night

We have a lot more to show from CES 2011 so here we go:

The new, very interesting USB Dac from Bladelius. Seems to have very high quality both in performance and appearance.

The new Tyr II from Bladelius where you can get the Dac built in.

Bladelius Embla and Thor III in front of the Trump tower.

Interesting stuff from Taiwanese San Lawren.

Great sounding loudspeakers from Estelon, Estonia. This room had a really nice jungle feel to it:)

Acapella loudspeakers with Einstein Audio electronics sounded really good as usual.

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?

The Acapella loudspeaker tweeters are interestingly using a sort of plasma technique.

Cheers for now.

Lars

I know it’s only been about us so far but it’s only because we have been so busy in our own room that we haven’t been able to leave it. Here is the whole set up with the Mono Power Amplifiers, the Coltrane 2 on our new Audio Furniture. It does look pretty impressive eh?

I promise there will be more about other stuff as well tomorrow so please come back soon.

Now it’s time for some All American Burgers or something like that:)

Lars