Celebrating the Year of the Dragon. Happy New Year from Marten.

The weather is always lovely under the painted ceiling at the Venetian:)

Here’s some more stuff from our floor.

Bright red electronics from Oracle Audio.

As well as shiny turn tables. Good stuff.

Oh, and here is of course the Djangos in Dan’s room together with the usual E.A.R. electronics.

Cozy lighting in Prima Luna‘s room.

Inside Prima Luna.

Good sounds in the Lansche Audio room. It almost seems they arranged their stuff according to the sunlight.

And a snake pit of cables behind:)

Rather shapely loudspeakers from Kondo.

Cool sounds and colours from Martin Logan.

Here are the delicious stone crab claws at Joe’s we were talking about yesterday. We spent the evening there with Henry Ahn from SAEM Energy in Korea and his lovely family. They fly these claws fresh from Florida everyday. Apparently they never kill any crabs, they just nip one of their claws off every year and let it grow out again. Must be really annoying to be one of them crabs eh?

Cheers

We found our mate Wes not far from ours, looking very professional with his new set up. Do like the logo work as well:)

He had this rather cool looking prototype of a new pre amp/dac from Viola Labs that you remotely control with an app on your iPhone.

New Hansen Audio loudspeakers in an unusual grey leather finish.

Humongous but still somehow very neat looking Redpoint turn tables in bright white. It all sounded really good.

Good stuff as usual from Venture in lovely Macassar Ebony wood finish.

Cool looking oblong shaped speakers from Vivid Audio.

The background at Jeff Rowland looked like a manifestation of sound.

The Bladelius room

with their brand new mono block amps. Good stuff as usual.

We’ll be back tomorrow, now it’s time for Stone Crabs at Joe’s

We keep playing the track ‘Geronimo’s Free’ by Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls. It sounds awesome on our system.

Back at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for CES 2012. Marten have been exhibiting for more than a decade at CES and every year is more fun than the previous. We have now opened the doors to the Marten room and the show is already busy.

Leif is setting up the brilliant electronics we use from MBS Technology.

Of course they’re placed on our own M•Furniture audio bench.

So are our M•Amp Mono blocks.

We also make use of the transparent diffusors from Svanå Miljöteknik, just like last year.

The calm before the storm. Leif arriving to the room just before kick off to do the final fine tuning.

If you are at CES, please pay us a visit. We’re in the Venetian suite 30228. Welcome to have a listen to our new Djangos.

We’ll be back with more tomorrow.

Hello U.S.A.

Here we are again in glimmering Las Vegas preparing for CES 2012. We have a feeling this years show will be cooler than ever with all the attention the Djangos already have had.

Also, we really hope you all had nice holidays and, Happy New Year:)

See you soon.

I have rarely heard better sound staging, depth, definition, or imaging in speakers

Don’t forget to try and win a pair of Djangos here>>

As a celebration of the release of these fantastic new speakers, we have one pair that will go to a lucky winner. Please go to www.martencompetition.com and participate.

Good luck!

We realised that we were part of a ‘The PFO Audio Oasis!’ at THE Show in Newport Beach. Our man Dan Meinwald exhibited with his usual stuff and of course he won the award. David W. Robinson start off his article with

Here’s a big no-surprise: Dan Meinwald’s room was sounding superb, as always.

Thank you very much to PFO.