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Marten
Website:https://www.marten.se
Marten is a Swedish loudspeaker maker from Gothenburg, set up in 1998 by Leif Mårten Olofsson as a family business. It builds passive floorstanding and standmount speakers only, every series named after a jazz musician, and its catalog runs from compact two-way boxes up to large multi-driver towers priced at six figures. Offices, the production floor and an in-house recording studio all sit on the Swedish west coast.
Range & what it's known for
Five families make up the range. Oscar is the most affordable line, Parker sits in the middle with the Duo standmount, Trio and Quintet towers, while Mingus and Coltrane form the upper tiers, with the Coltrane Supreme 2 at the very top. Models inside each family are named by size, from Duo through Trio and Quartet to Quintet and Septet. The defining engineering choice is the driver supply, since Marten buys ceramic cones and domes from the German specialist Accuton, uses Accuton Cell drivers in Coltrane and Mingus models and fits pure diamond tweeters to Diamond versions. The flagship used a first-order crossover.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company is still privately held by the Olofsson family. Founder Leif Olofsson runs it together with his brothers Jörgen and Lars. Design, cabinet work, driver fitting, internal wiring, polishing and the fitting of the brand's own isolation feet are carried out by hand in Gothenburg, with the headquarters in the city and the factory in the surrounding region. Internal wiring comes from Jorma, the cable brand run by the same family.
The lineup in this catalog
Floorstanding and standmount loudspeakers. The biggest Coltrane systems are listed well beyond EUR 300,000, against about EUR 15,000 for the least expensive models.
Who it's for
Marten fits owners of a serious high-end system who want a passive speaker with ceramic or diamond drivers and hand assembly in Sweden. A Parker Duo or an Oscar model is the sensible way in for a smaller room, a Parker or Mingus tower suits 20 m2 and larger spaces, and the Coltrane line is reserved for dedicated listening rooms with generous budgets and powerful amplification.
Range & what it's known for
Five families make up the range. Oscar is the most affordable line, Parker sits in the middle with the Duo standmount, Trio and Quintet towers, while Mingus and Coltrane form the upper tiers, with the Coltrane Supreme 2 at the very top. Models inside each family are named by size, from Duo through Trio and Quartet to Quintet and Septet. The defining engineering choice is the driver supply, since Marten buys ceramic cones and domes from the German specialist Accuton, uses Accuton Cell drivers in Coltrane and Mingus models and fits pure diamond tweeters to Diamond versions. The flagship used a first-order crossover.
Who owns it and where it's made
The company is still privately held by the Olofsson family. Founder Leif Olofsson runs it together with his brothers Jörgen and Lars. Design, cabinet work, driver fitting, internal wiring, polishing and the fitting of the brand's own isolation feet are carried out by hand in Gothenburg, with the headquarters in the city and the factory in the surrounding region. Internal wiring comes from Jorma, the cable brand run by the same family.
The lineup in this catalog
Floorstanding and standmount loudspeakers. The biggest Coltrane systems are listed well beyond EUR 300,000, against about EUR 15,000 for the least expensive models.
Who it's for
Marten fits owners of a serious high-end system who want a passive speaker with ceramic or diamond drivers and hand assembly in Sweden. A Parker Duo or an Oscar model is the sensible way in for a smaller room, a Parker or Mingus tower suits 20 m2 and larger spaces, and the Coltrane line is reserved for dedicated listening rooms with generous budgets and powerful amplification.
