Loudspeakers

In the last decade, Marten has spread its wings from making loudspeakers to making music. Or, at least, recording others making music. In an acoustically treated, 70m² space at its Gothenburg head office (just up the road from its dedicated manufacturing plant), the company established a studio in 2014 that also functions as a state-of-the-art listening room – Marten describes it as a ‘cornerstone in the development’ of its flagship Coltrane Supreme 2 speaker.

The studio has been used to capture live performances for a series of Supreme Sessions compilations, plus standalone albums from Rhythm Art Duo, Granmo-Berg [pictured above] and the Matti Ollikainen Trio, for release on the Marten Recordings label. Audiophile quality is, of course, on the agenda. The studio employs just two microphones (‘our aim is to produce music as close to reality as possible’) and Marten Recordings LPs are pressed on 180g virgin vinyl at Sweden’s Spinroad Vinyl facility. High-res downloads (96kHz/24-bit) are also available from www.martenshop.com, and three tracks recorded in the studio are included on the demo CD (and USB) supplied with all its speakers.