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MÅRTEN
DESIGN |
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Marten Design (website devoted to
English) (website devoted to
English
without Flash) is a Swedish
company that has been in business since 1998. The company is a
family owned business and their speakers are known for their
accuracy, quality of componentry, and excellent
price/performance ratio.
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Sound |
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Design is focused on delivering natural, detailed, very
accurate sound at a reasonable price, in a speaker that is
designed to be placed close to the walls and is small enough
so that it
will excel in virtually all rooms. Marten Design has succeeded
admirably with all of these goals.
The
Coltrane (their flagship speaker) is so accurate that the
listener will find themselves comparing their sound to the
real thing. Details and transparency are world class.
Comparing the speakers to their competition, note for note,
and component for component, nothing in their size factor
comes close at twice the price.
The
speakers are attractive, lightweight, relatively small and
love being placed out of the way near the wall. One and a half
to two feet is not too close for these speakers - in fact they
like it!
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Technology |
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integrating the most advanced loudspeaker drivers known today,
the ceramic drivers from Accuton, into state-of-the-art
cabinetry (especially the carbon fiber enclosure in the
Coltrane) Marten Design has developed some outstanding
speakers,
The
Carbon Fiber Enclosure
The
Coltrane speaker cabinet is constructed from carbon fiber - a
very strong, stiff but lightweight material that is almost
completely free from resonances. The shape, both of the thick
wooden front baffle and the cabinet as a whole, allows the
sound to flow around the speaker in a very nice 360 degree
pattern that closely mimics the sound propagation patterns of
real instruments and voices.
The
Drivers
The
Accuton drivers
provide the dynamics of real, live music.
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Portfolio |
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Marten Design has
a portfolio of loudspeakers with a number of different
pedigrees - from the little Monk to the awesome Coltrane.
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Coltrane
Supreme
Loudspeaker |
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Main Towers |
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Frequency range |
90
- 100,000 Hz +/- 1.5dB |
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Sensitivity |
93
dB/1W/1m |
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Impedance |
4
ohms (3.6 minimum) |
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Power
handling |
300 Watts, 1500 Watts peak |
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Type |
Sealed box system |
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Drive
units |
5
7-inch ceramic midrange, 2" diamond mid, 3/4"
diamond tweeter |
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Crossover network |
Forth order |
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Terminals |
Custom, biwirable |
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Cabinet |
25 mm carbon
fiber laminate, 60 mm wood front (2 x 30 with
deadening glue between) |
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Stands |
Polished steel
with Black Diamond Racing cones and pucks |
Overall measurements
(WxHxD) |
10.2 x 53.9 x 15.7 inches |
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Recommended room size |
200 square feet
or greater |
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Weight |
154 lbs (70 Kg) |
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Subwoofers |
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Frequency range |
15
- 100 Hz - 3dB |
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Power
handling |
2000 Watt
active system |
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Type |
Sealed box
system |
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Drive
units |
6 9-inch
ceramic woofers |
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Crossover network |
Forth
order fully balanced with active crossover with
digital active room correction possibilities |
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Terminals |
Custom |
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Cabinet |
25 mm carbon
fiber laminate, 60 mm wood front (2 x 30 with
deadening glue between) |
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Stands |
Polished steel
with Black Diamond Racing cones and pucks |
Overall measurements
(WxHxD) |
14.2 x 69.3 x 19.7 inches |
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Recommended room size |
200 square feet
or greater |
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Weight |
200 lbs (90 Kg) |
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DESCRIPTION |
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The Marten Coltrane Supreme is one of the
most amazing technological wonders of the world. It
ability to communicate reproduced music directly to
the listener's subconscious is not only unequaled - it
is just plain phenomenal. This isn't technology
anymore - this is magic. |
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RECOMMENDED USAGE |
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OPTIONS |
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High gloss
black with wood front panels: maple, cherry, oak, or
walnut
Special wood finishes for front panel:
flaming maple, sebrano zebrawood |
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REVIEWS |
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Manufacturer's Reviews
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GALLERY |
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Photo Gallery |
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AWARDS |
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LINKS |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE |
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FAQ |
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PRICES |
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Coltrane
Loudspeaker |
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Frequency range |
20
- 100,000 Hz +/- 2dB |
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Sensitivity |
89
dB/1W/1m |
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Impedance |
4
ohms (2.7 minimum with bass-adjust in normal
position) |
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Power
handling |
300 Watts |
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Type |
Ported system (port resonance 19 Hz) |
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Drive
units |
Two 9 inch ceramic bass, 4" ceramic mid, 3/4"
diamond tweeter |
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Crossover network |
Second order, 300 and 4000 Hz |
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Terminals |
Biwiring, WBT binding posts |
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Cabinet |
25 mm carbon
fiber laminate, 61 mm wood front (2 x 30 with
deadening glue between) |
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Stands |
Polished steel
with Black Diamond Racing cones and pucks |
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Overall measurements |
12.3 x 44.5 x 24.0 inches (WxHxD) |
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Recommended room size |
N/A |
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Weight |
104 lbs (47 Kg) |
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DESCRIPTION |
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The Marten Coltrane is one of the best
speakers in the world, and in its size class, perhaps
the very best.
These
speakers produce a very tight, precise sound with
stable, pinpoint imaging and superb coherence and
transparency in an attractive, easy to move and setup
package.
These speakers are very user and room friendly. The
come with 4 Black Diamond Racing cones as 'spiked
feet', and their associated pucks, and this not only
isolates the speaker from the floor acoustically, but
makes the speaker very easy to move around on carpeted
floors.
The
detail and harmonics in the areas of the human voice
and the majority of the notes of the piano and
acoustic guitar is entrancing. Whether inside the
listening room or in a separate room altogether, the
realism is first class and somewhat 'spooky'. The
presence, dynamics, timbre... everything is spot on.
One
thing that is immediately evident was that the
Coltrane's have 'tamed' the Accuton ceramic drivers.
There wasn't that crispy, overly fast attack that
plagues many speakers with ceramic drivers. These
drivers are very fast, with the ability to
start a note exactly when the amplifier tells
them to. Their natural tendency seems to be to render
the note 'too fast', over emphasizing leading
transients. Happily, the Marten folks have licked this
problem with the Coltranes. More than that, the
beginning of each note is rendered with startling real
accuracy. The Coltranes are capable of an almost
perfectly convincing rendering of the original music -
especially acoustic guitar, piano and voice.
These
speakers are very, very accurate. They compel a person
to dare to compare the sound they produce to the
actual recorded event. The do not have any severe
shortcomings - top-to-bottom they are not bright,
etched, cold, warm, or dull-sounding - and their
features are many: top-to-bottom they have loads of
detail, with a flatter frequency response than most
and very, very transparent. They are small and easy to
position and forgiving of imperfect room acoustics.
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RECOMMENDED USAGE |
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OPTIONS |
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High gloss
black with wood front panels: maple, cherry, oak, or
walnut
Special wood finishes for front panel:
flaming maple, sebrano zebrawood |
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REVIEWS |
Manufacturer's Reviews
Page
Hi-Fi+ |
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GALLERY |
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Photo Gallery |
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AWARDS |
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Hi-Fi+ Product of the
Year 2004 |
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LINKS |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE |
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FAQ |
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PRICES |
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Bird
Loudspeaker |
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Frequency range |
28 - 45,000 Hz - 3dB |
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Sensitivity |
89 dB/1W/1m |
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Impedance |
6 ohms (4.7 minimum) |
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Power handling |
250 Watts |
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Type |
Ported system (port resonance 30 Hz) |
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Drive units |
Two
9 inch ceramic bass, 7" ceramic mid, 1"
diamond tweeter |
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Crossover network |
Second order, 170 and 2700 Hz |
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Terminals |
Biwiring, WBT |
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Cabinet |
16 mm MDF |
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Stands |
Polished
stainless steel with Clearlight Audio cones |
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Overall measurements |
11 x 45.6 x 18.9 inches (WxHxD)
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Weight |
104 lbs
(47 Kg) |
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DESCRIPTION |
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RECOMMENDED
USAGE |
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OPTIONS |
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High
gloss black with wood front panels: maple,
cherry, oak, or walnut |
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REVIEWS |
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Manufacturer's
Reviews Page |
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LINKS |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE |
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FAQ |
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Alto
Coltrane
Loudspeaker |
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Frequency range |
24 - 40,000 Hz +/- 3dB |
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Sensitivity |
87 dB/1W/1m |
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Impedance |
6 ohms (3.9 minimum with bass-adjust in
normal position) |
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Power handling |
200 Watts |
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Type |
Ported system (port resonance 27 Hz) |
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Drive units |
9 inch ceramic bass, 5" ceramic mid, 1"
ceramic tweeter |
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Crossover network |
Second order, 150 and 3300 Hz |
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Terminals |
Biwiring, WBT |
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Cabinet |
16 mm
carbon fiber laminate, 40 mm wood front (2 x
20 with deadening glue between) |
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Stands |
Polished
stainless steel with Black Diamond Racing
cones and pucks |
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Overall measurements |
9.6 x 44.5 x 16.5 inches (WxHxD)
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Weight |
60 lbs
(27 Kg) |
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DESCRIPTION |
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RECOMMENDED
USAGE |
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OPTIONS |
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High
gloss black with wood front panels: maple,
cherry, oak, or walnut |
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REVIEWS |
Manufacturer's
Reviews Page
6 Moons' Edward Barker on
Coltrane Alto |
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LINKS |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE |
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