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Originally Posted by audioguy3107
Those are nice looking speakers....I still have yet to hear Martens in a properly set up room but I bet they sound fantastic.
- Buck
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I'ts always hard to really describe how a speaker sound and even more how a speaker reproduce the essence of the music.
Imagine a big a speaker map in front of you. There is a speaker in one corner of the map that gets all the sound from the recording reproduced into your ears in a technical way. No love, more lika a specification. You can hear it all but gets no emotion from it.
On the other side of this utopian speaker map there is a speaker that sounds likable, you really get the body to move with the music, but with absence of characteristics in the instruments and details.
In real life most god speaker brands are situated around the middle, but some will lean more to the technical and not emotional side and others more to the emotional side with technical reproduction flaws. What you choose for you is personal. As long it makes you happy about the sound it's perfekt.
I'v been thinking about this kind of imaginary map for years. I'll put up every speaker and system i hear in it. It makes me remember them better. The map is for sure subjective. Especially where the sweet spot of the map is.
I enjoy musik reproduced by a speaker a bit more to the emotional side of the map, but I can be impressed and enjoy many of the speakers from many places of the map.
Finally to your wishes about hearing a good Marten system... I'll try to give you a hint of what you maybe can hear.
I think Marten Parker Quintet is right in the middle of my imaginary speaker map.
It is combining a excellent technical presentation with the essence and emotion in the music. It's involving you into the music without having to analyze it. You just listen and get carried away to the core of music.
This is why I think Marten is good speaker brand and competing up there against the best. The sound quality is great. It's more about personal taste and Marten Parker is to me very likable.