Description
Marten Mingus Quintet 2 – Precision Meets Musicality
The Mingus Quintet 2 from Marten is a high-performance speaker designed for audiophiles who demand both precision and musicality. It builds on the success of the original Mingus Quintet, incorporating advanced technologies to offer an expansive soundstage with impressive clarity, depth, and control. As a 3-way bass reflex speaker, it features five drivers, including a pure diamond tweeter, pure ceramic midrange driver, and aluminum sandwich bass drivers, ensuring that the sound remains full, detailed, and lifelike, from deep bass to sparkling highs. The combination of these high-end materials and technology results in a powerful yet refined listening experience, perfect for discerning music lovers.
High-End Driver Technology
The 1-inch pure diamond tweeter is crafted to deliver brilliant high-frequency clarity. Diamond’s unmatched stiffness-to-weight ratio allows for distortion-free sound in the upper registers, while the 5.25-inch ceramic midrange driver offers natural, accurate midrange reproduction. The aluminum sandwich bass drivers provide deep, rich bass with low distortion, enhancing the overall dynamic range of the speaker. These drivers work in harmony to create a seamless and coherent sound experience, ensuring that all frequencies are well-represented.
Resonance Control and Advanced Cabinet Design
The cabinet of the Mingus Quintet 2 is designed not just for aesthetics, but for optimal sound performance. The solid wood tops and bottoms reduce resonance, while the tapered cabinet shape minimizes internal reflections that can lead to sound distortion. Inside, the cabinet is dampened with advanced materials, which further reduces unwanted resonances. In collaboration with IsoAcoustics, Marten developed Marten Isolators, which decouple the speaker from the floor, reducing external vibrations and enhancing clarity. This meticulous attention to resonance control ensures that the sound remains pure and uncolored.
First-Order Crossover and Internal Components
Marten’s first-order crossover is integral to the speaker’s time and phase coherence, ensuring all drivers are perfectly synchronized. This results in cleaner transitions between frequencies, allowing for a cohesive and immersive sound experience. The crossover uses copper foil air-core coils, silver/copper foil capacitors, and Jorma internal wiring, all chosen to maintain signal purity and enhance overall performance.
Upgrade to the Statement Edition
For those seeking even higher levels of audio fidelity, the Mingus Quintet 2 is available in a Statement Edition, featuring Jorma Statement internal cables and higher-grade crossover components. These upgrades result in improved signal integrity and further refine the sound, offering an even clearer, more transparent listening experience. The Statement Edition enhances what is already an exceptional speaker, delivering a level of performance that appeals to the most dedicated audiophiles.
Conclusion: A Speaker for Discerning Audiophiles
The Marten Mingus Quintet 2 is a speaker that combines technical excellence with musical expressiveness. From its state-of-the-art diamond tweeter and ceramic midrange to its advanced crossover and isolators, every element of this speaker is designed to deliver a performance that is both precise and emotionally engaging. With the option to upgrade to the Statement Edition, the Mingus Quintet 2 offers a truly personalized, high-end audio experience for listeners who expect nothing less than perfection.
About Marten
Marten Audio, a Swedish luxury loudspeaker manufacturer, is renowned for producing meticulously crafted speakers that deliver natural, uncoloured sound with minimal distortion. Their product lines – Coltrane, Mingus, Parker, and Oscar – cater to different audiophile preferences, each maintaining Marten’s focus on transparency, precision, and exceptional sound reproduction.
The Coltrane Series, Marten’s flagship line, represents the pinnacle of the brand’s technology. The Coltrane Quintet, featuring diamond and ceramic drivers housed in a carbon-fibre cabinet, is celebrated for its ultra-low distortion and expansive soundstage. It offers deep bass and transparent highs, making it a top choice for listeners seeking dynamic range, emotional depth, and unparalleled sonic accuracy. The Coltrane Series is designed for audiophiles who demand sonic excellence in high-end sound.
The Mingus Series, including models like the Mingus Septet and Quintet 2, incorporates many of the same technologies found in the Coltrane line but in a more compact form. The Mingus Septet is known for its rich bass, balanced midrange, and detailed, immersive listening experience. It’s ideal for those who prefer smaller speakers without sacrificing the engaging and dynamic sound that Marten is known for.
The Parker Series, including the Parker Trio, offers high-end performance at a more approachable price within Marten’s lineup. The Parker Trio features custom-designed ceramic drivers and passive radiators, delivering a wide soundstage, impressive bass control, and clean, uncoloured midrange and highs. Its versatility makes it suitable for a broad range of music genres, offering precise sound reproduction without sacrificing warmth.
The Oscar Series brings Marten’s core sound qualities to a more accessible price point. The Oscar Trio and Oscar Duo deliver detailed sound and natural tonality, embodying Marten’s signature transparency at a lower price. Despite being entry-level, the Oscar speakers maintain low distortion and high precision. These models can also be upgraded with diamond tweeters, providing audiophiles the option to elevate their listening experience with additional refinement and clarity.
For those seeking even greater refinement, Marten offers upgrade options across their speaker lines. The Diamond Edition upgrades add diamond tweeters, advanced crossover components, and Jorma Statement internal cabling, significantly improving detail retrieval, precision, and overall performance. The Parker Trio, when upgraded to the Diamond Edition, approaches the performance level of Marten’s more premium models.
Marten also frequently integrates Jorma Design cables into their systems, ensuring a seamless connection between components. These cables are known for their neutrality and transparency, perfectly aligning with Marten’s goal of delivering uncoloured sound while reducing interference and enhancing clarity.
Together, these speaker lines and partnerships showcase Marten’s dedication to delivering high-quality, emotionally engaging sound experiences across various price points.
Reviews
Jason Victor Serinus – Srereophile at Munich (May, 2022)
“Ease was the order of the day in the Marten/Jorma room. Soprano Anna Moffo sounded just lovely, with superb air and open soundstaging, on an LP of her singing the “Jewel Song” from Gounod’s Faust. Ditto for pianist Byron Janis, whose superb-sounding recording of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto graced a prized Mercury Living Presence LP. Deserving of honor was Swedish manufacturer Marten’s new Mingus Quintet 2 loudspeakers.”
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Christiaan Punter – Hifi Advice (May, 2017)
“These speakers really are something special. They’re clear, open, and dynamic but also lusciously smooth and relaxed, with a highly convincing natural tonality and deep, powerful bass. Despite being superbly detailed and having incredible low-level detailing, they don’t have that “hifi” in-your-face sound. There are other speakers that also sound very detailed, but I have never heard a dynamic speaker (with or without ribbon tweeters) that has such incredibly clear-cut, yet so utterly fluid and refined treble and midrange. Jorma cables seem to be a perfect match for these speakers, complimenting their strong sides while adding no character of their own.”
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