Marten Coltrane 2

Marten has announced the new ‘Coltrane 2’ loudspeaker which will be debuted at CES 2011 this next January in Las Vegas. We’ve only known about this a few days… and are we ever anxious to hear them!

The most visible change is the two 11 inch woofers replacing the two 9 inch woofers on the previous Coltrane (which we have enjoyed very much and displayed in the Audio Federation room at RMAF 2010)

A closeup of the announcement. The price is expected to be around $85K a pair (the previous Coltrane was $70K).

[The demo pair of cherrywood Coltrane speakers we played in our room at RMAF 2010 to such wonderful effect are still available at a decent discount *hint* *hint* :-)]

The Coltrane 1 is one of the best loudspeakers, if not THE best, at its size in the fricking world [and we are ALWAYS looking for other speakers that can do what these speakers do – i.e. get completely out of the way of the music].

These changes will obviously give the Coltrane 2 more bass and a somewhat larger scale with respect to their overall presentation.

Marten has also announced a hefty 600 watt amplifier. It will be about $45K a pair.

We’ve been talking a lot here about the dearth of high-quality solid-state amplifiers – i..e those able to reproduce micro-dynamics at scale. It will be interesting to see what these sound like 🙂