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Product Strengths
- The Mingus Septet produces a relaxed and effortless sound
- It incorporates custom Marten pure diamond tweeters, Beryllium high midrange drivers, and Ceramic mid-bass midrange drivers for astonishing accuracy and clarity
- The Mingus Septet employs a first-order crossover network, which ensures flawless time coincidence and perfect phase coherence, resulting in an open, clean, and dynamic sound
- The cabinet design reduces sound reflections and ensures superb resonance control
- It has flexible bass control for optimal performance in various room sizes
Product Considerations
- The Mingus Septet's premium pricing may not suit all budgets
- The Mingus Septet is substantial in weight (95 kg), which may require careful placement consideration
- The high-end components demand equally high-quality associated equipment for optimal performance
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Compared to Wolf von Langa's Chicago, the Mingus Septet has better treble and bass
Takeaway: The Mingus Septet is a masterpiece of acoustic engineering and visual design. It offers an uncompromising listening experience for the discerning audiophile.
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An excellent review of a great product
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An excellent review of a great product
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Features
Specifications
- Speaker (front): 1" pure diamond, 3" pure beryllium, 7" pure ceramic, 2 x 8" aluminium sandwich
- Speaker (back): 2 x 10″ Passive Aluminium sandwich
- Frequency range: 23-40000 Hz +-2dB
- Power rating: 300 W
- Sensitivity: 88 dB / 2.83 V
- Impedance: 4 ohms (2.7 Ohms min)
- Type: 4-way
- Crossover frequency: First order: 200, 800, 6000 Hz
- Terminals: WBT Nextgen Bi-wire
- Internal wiring: Jorma (optional Statement)
- Cabinet: 25-40 mm fibreboard laminate cabinet in Piano Black
- Dimensions: 33.5 x 126 x 46 cm (13.2" x 49.6" x 18.1")
- Net weight: 95 kg (211 lbs)
Description
Mingus Septet is perfect for those that admire the power and performance of Mingus Orchestra, but also want a more lounge-friendly listening experience. With many similarities to its counterpart, Mingus Septet delivers the same high-level performance without compromise. Its full-range, deep bass and wide dynamics create an unparalleled sound that is both captivating and immersive.
Mingus Septet is perfect for those that admire the power and performance of Mingus Orchestra, but also want a more lounge-friendly listening experience. With many similarities to its counterpart, Mingus Septet delivers the same high-level performance without compromise. Its full-range, deep bass and wide dynamics create an unparalleled sound that is both captivating and immersive.
What you get Precision and power combined. Mingus Septet is a heavy-weight four-way speaker that boasts seven drivers. Custom Marten pure diamond tweeters and beryllium high midrange drivers ensure every detail is captured with clarity and precision. Our first-order crossover provides open, clean, and dynamic sound, while the advanced damping mats, wooden tops and bottoms, and 4mm aluminium plate ensure a neutral cabinet with superb resonance control. Marten Isolators further reduce resonance by separating the cabinet from the supporting surface.
Custom pure diamond tweeter
Custom Beryllium high midrange
First order crossover
Passive bass drivers
Marten Isolators
What you get Precision and power combined. Mingus Septet is a heavy-weight four-way speaker that boasts seven drivers. Custom Marten pure diamond tweeters and beryllium high midrange drivers ensure every detail is captured with clarity and precision. Our first-order crossover provides open, clean, and dynamic sound, while the advanced damping mats, wooden tops and bottoms, and 4mm aluminium plate ensure a neutral cabinet with superb resonance control. Marten Isolators further reduce resonance by separating the cabinet from the supporting surface.
Custom pure diamond tweeter
Custom Beryllium high midrange
First order crossover
Passive bass drivers
Marten Isolators
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Brand highlights
Taking a step back to look at reviewers' thoughts of the brand's entire lineup—not just this product—what stands out most is the following:
- They achieve exceptional sonic purity by utilizing drivers made from materials such as ceramic and diamond, allowing for minimal distortion and maximum clarity across the entire frequency spectrum.
- Marten speakers often utilize a multi-way design, with each driver meticulously integrated through advanced crossover technologies, ensuring a balanced and coherent soundstage.
- The brand utilizes Jorma Design internal wiring in their speakers, ensuring signal purity and maximizing performance by partnering with a cable manufacturer renowned for high-quality audio cables.
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Oscar
- Positioning: The entry-level lineup, designed to offer high-quality sound at a more accessible price point.
- Description: Delivers the true Marten sound with newly designed drivers that maintain quality while being cost-effective. Unlike the higher-end Coltrane series, focuses on affordability without sacrificing the core sound characteristics, making it ideal for those with budget constraints who still desire high-end audio performance.
Mingus
- Positioning: Positioned as a high-end option, drawing inspiration from the flagship Coltrane series.
- Description: Incorporates diamond drivers and custom designs that enhance clarity and strength, setting them apart from the Parker series. They offer a more sophisticated sound with advanced driver technology.
Coltrane
- Positioning: The flagship lineup, representing the pinnacle of technological innovation and sound quality.
- Description: Renowned for their first-order crossover and Accuton Cell drivers, providing unmatched time and phase coherence. This series offers the ultimate in sound reproduction with extreme clarity and resolution, surpassing the Mingus series in both performance and price.
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Founding Year
1998
Our take on the brand
Marten is a Swedish hifi brand that uses diamond tweeters and ceramic drivers in their speakers, delivering exceptional clarity through their proprietary vibration-reducing Marten Isolators. Their speakers feature carbon-fiber laminate cabinets and are handcrafted in Sweden, focusing on achieving natural, unforced sound reproduction without harshness.
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What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
Marten uses high quality drivers that are custom to our models often in exotic materials like diamond, beryllium, ceramics and aluminium. Marten is one of very fiev manufactures that is implementing first order crossover filters. This we do in all models in the Mingus and Coltrane range.
What's your approach to customer support?
Initially customers are advised to contact the dealer they bought their speakers from, when support is needed, if they have bought speakers second hand it's recommended to to contact the appointed distributor. Of course customers are also welcome to contact Marten directly via our info email and get support that way. We value customer support highly and help our dealers and distributors to take care of customers if something has happened. Customers should never ever hesitate to contact us or our partners.
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
We have many but here are three of our test tracks, St James Infirmary (live edition) Angela Brown, Someday you'll be sorry Harry Connick Jr, V. Panis angelicus (Soprano) Ensemble vocal de Lausanne.
What other products pair best with yours?
We do a lot of testing and development on brands like Halcro, Audiaflight, MSB and CH-precision. But we also know that customers use Gryphon, Goldmund, Soulution and Esoteric among many other brands in their home systems.
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220359
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Released
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Coltrane has always been a standard of excellence for us and is a benchmark for the Marten sound. Coltrane Quintet continues this legacy, delivering high resolution, crystal-clear sound with a vivid soundstage that is life-like and natural. The new Coltrane marks a substantial progression in terms of bass response, dynamics and resonance reduction.
Marten is a Swedish hifi brand that uses diamond tweeters and ceramic drivers in their speakers, delivering exceptional clarity through their proprietary vibration-reducing Marten Isolators. Their speakers feature carbon-fiber laminate cabinets and are handcrafted in Sweden, focusing on achieving natural, unforced sound reproduction without harshness.
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Product Strengths
- Delivers high-resolution, crystal-clear sound
- Wide and accurate soundstage designed to be life-like and natural
- Incorporates improvements in bass response, dynamics, and resonance reduction
- Cabinet is 25% larger than the Coltrane 3, providing more interior volume that supports a lower bass frequency response
- Carbon fiber cabinet provides superior resonance control, while retaining a sleek and robust profile
Product Considerations
- The market is getting very crowded in the ultra-high-end speaker category
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Vs Coltrane 3: The Coltrane Quintet incorporates improvements in bass response, dynamics, and resonance reduction, and has a cabinet that is 25% larger
Takeaway: The Coltrane Quintet delivers high-resolution, crystal-clear sound with a wide and accurate soundstage. It is a successor to the Coltrane 3 with improvements in bass response, dynamics, and resonance reduction.
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Our take on the brand
Marten is a Swedish hifi brand that uses diamond tweeters and ceramic drivers in their speakers, delivering exceptional clarity through their proprietary vibration-reducing Marten Isolators. Their speakers feature carbon-fiber laminate cabinets and are handcrafted in Sweden, focusing on achieving natural, unforced sound reproduction without harshness.
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Coltrane Supreme 2 MK2
595589
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Coltrane Supreme 2 MK2 is the prestige model for the Coltrane Series. We wanted to create the ultimate speaker for the home - perhaps the best in the world. Designed using our recording studio in Sweden as reference, the difference between reality and recorded sound is indistinguishable.
Marten is a Swedish hifi brand that uses diamond tweeters and ceramic drivers in their speakers, delivering exceptional clarity through their proprietary vibration-reducing Marten Isolators. Their speakers feature carbon-fiber laminate cabinets and are handcrafted in Sweden, focusing on achieving natural, unforced sound reproduction without harshness.
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Product Strengths
- Unmatched sound quality and clarity across all frequencies
- Perfect time and phase coherence for a lifelike soundstage
- State-of-the-art diamond and ceramic driver technology
- Exceptional build quality with premium materials
Product Considerations
- Significant investment required
- Requires a large listening space to truly shine
- Demands high-quality amplification and source components
Takeaway: The Marten Coltrane Supreme 2 MK2 is a top-of-the-line speaker that delivers an exceptional and realistic listening experience. It is a good choice for audiophiles looking to create a professional-grade listening room.
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Our take on the brand
Marten is a Swedish hifi brand that uses diamond tweeters and ceramic drivers in their speakers, delivering exceptional clarity through their proprietary vibration-reducing Marten Isolators. Their speakers feature carbon-fiber laminate cabinets and are handcrafted in Sweden, focusing on achieving natural, unforced sound reproduction without harshness.
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Burmester
BC150
150000
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Released
2021
The new BC150 loudspeaker model by Burmester is now making the innovative leaps in sound quality, technology, and design from the Signature Line possible for other product lines. Within this loudspeaker model, elements of the BC350 loudspeakers from the Signature Line were incorporated.
Burmester, a high-end audio brand renowned for its German craftsmanship, designs and handcrafts its components in Berlin. Known for its distinctive industrial aesthetic with chrome finishes, the brand supplies premium sound systems for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.
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Product Strengths
- Detailed, exciting, dynamic, and transparent sound
- Vanishingly low cabinet coloration, contributing to speed and detail
- Lung-emptying, bowel-clearing, demolition-grade bass
- Bass integrates well with the rest of the frequency range for an integrated musical performance
- Voices have breath and contour, yet the result always retains a minimum of warmth
Product Considerations
- Room acoustics should be a strong consideration, as the BC150 reveals room issues
- Needs a lot of quality electronics upstream
- Requires firm control and ample current capacity from the amplifier
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- The BC150 sounds more like a Burmester B38 with greater abilities to scale
Takeaway: The Burmester BC150 is a high-precision audio instrument that is both musically communicative and musically analytical, offering a detailed and transparent listening experience. It offers clarity and purity of sound, and brings music to another level.
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Borresen
M3
283975
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Released
2023
The M3 speakers are the perfect blend of form and function, which reflects the excellent and highly productive partnership between two great minds in the audio industry – Michael Børresen and Flemming Erik Rasmussen. The sleek and elegant design of these speakers, combined with their outstanding audio performance, makes them a testament to Audio Group Denmark's commitment to audio excellence.
Børresen Acoustics stands out for its iron-free magnetic motors and cryogenically treated metal components, which reduce inductance for clearer sound. The brand's speakers feature unique elements like zirconium-based 3D-printed baskets and a patented ribbon tweeter design, combined with series crossover networks for phase-locked electrical current across frequencies.
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Product Strengths
- The M3 presents music with an unprecedented degree of individuality and specificity, without sacrificing tonality, texture, or body
- Remarkable level of resolution
- Astonishing transparency and is resolute
- Accurate tonality and represents timbre faithfully
- Exceptional high-frequency detail and speed due to a planar tweeter
- Accepts only banana terminations
Product Considerations
- The planar tweeter misses the very last measure of extension, shimmer, and effortlessness accomplished by the very best available today
- Low-frequency extension was limited to the high 20 Hz, low 30 Hz range
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Compared to Magico M9, the M3 has recalibrated the resolution yardstick by which all other loudspeakers must be measured and compared
- Compared to Von Schweikert Audio ULTRA 9s, the M3 has recalibrated the resolution yardstick by which all other loudspeakers must be measured and compared
Takeaway: The Børresen M3 loudspeakers boldly represent the realization of striking potential in audio and push known boundaries. People who choose the M3 will enjoy a specific level of playback that is unavailable from other loudspeakers.
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Børresen Acoustics stands out for its iron-free magnetic motors and cryogenically treated metal components, which reduce inductance for clearer sound. The brand's speakers feature unique elements like zirconium-based 3D-printed baskets and a patented ribbon tweeter design, combined with series crossover networks for phase-locked electrical current across frequencies.
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Wilson Audio
Alexx V
154000
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Released
2021
The original Alexx loudspeaker, launched in 2016, quickly gained critical acclaim throughout the industry. Alexx benefited from several elements developed during the five years Wilson Audio's founder David A. Wilson, and his unwavering R&D team, brought to life his magnum opus: the WAMM Master Chronosonic. Now, five years after the monumental accomplishment of the WAMM, Alexx V builds upon the original Alexx's success by offering a completely re-engineered performance envelope without greatly increasing the footprint. Comparing the overall size of Alexx V to the original, Alexx V is only 1" deeper and 1" taller while maintaining the same width.
Wilson Audio is often considered the quintessential American high-end hi-fi brand, a staple in premium audio dealerships across the country. Many reviewers use Wilson speakers in their own home systems, reflecting their reputation for outstanding dynamics, bass depth, and the ability to reproduce classical music with remarkable realism. Wilson focuses on creating an uncolored sound, aiming to replicate the experience of live, unamplified performances.
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Product Strengths
- Sublime image size and expansiveness, coupled with an ability to be driven as hard as your ears or your amps can take
- A sense of balance to the sound of the Alexx V makes renewal possible, expressive and articulate from the deepest bass to the highest treble
- Trickle-down benefits from the WAMM Master Chronosonic and Chronosonic XVX
- Bass performance is otherworldly
- The Alexx V has the ability to uncover and continue to deliver micro-details at extremely high SPLs, even after that slam of a transient
Product Considerations
- Some power behind the throne is needed, because the loudspeaker's impedance plot drops to two ohms at 250Hz
- The dome tweeter does sacrifice the last ounce of micro-detail, compared to the insane resolving power of the best diamond and beryllium drivers
- The choice of finish needs to be considered with care
- Cable management can impact performance
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Compared to the original Alexx, the Alexx V is a massive improvement—closer to a baby XVX in so many ways
- Compared to the Alexia 2, the Alexx V was more than a mere additive sum, a step-function improvement
- Compared to the Wilson XVX and WAMM Master Chronosonic, the tweeter is effortless and resolving by normal standards, but no match for the extraordinary levels of detail retrieval
Takeaway: The Alexx V offers a sublime listening experience with excellent balance and dynamic range that allows the listener to get closer to the music. It is a worthy contender for those looking to upgrade their listening experience.
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Wilson Audio is often considered the quintessential American high-end hi-fi brand, a staple in premium audio dealerships across the country. Many reviewers use Wilson speakers in their own home systems, reflecting their reputation for outstanding dynamics, bass depth, and the ability to reproduce classical music with remarkable realism. Wilson focuses on creating an uncolored sound, aiming to replicate the experience of live, unamplified performances.
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