MARTEN MINGUS QUINTET

Marten’s Mingus Quintet speakers are now available at Melbourne’s newest hi-fi store, Sound Gallery. Sound Gallery might be new, but most audiophiles will recognise its owner, John Ong. The Marten Mingus Quintet is three-way, five-driver bass reflex design that uses three 178mm aluminium-sandwich coned bass drivers, a 127mm ceramic-dome midrange driver and a 20mm diamond dome tweeter. The midrange dome driver and tweeter in the Mingus Quintet are identical to those used in Marten’s flagship speaker, the Coltrane. The crossover, which is connected to the drivers using cabling from Swedish manufacturer Jorma Design, is a first-order type to ensure phase coherence with nominal crossover frequencies at 137Hz and 4kHz. As with all Marten speakers, the Mingus Quintets are designed and manufactured in Sweden. ‘ The Mingus Quintet bridges Marten’s Heritage and Coltrane series,’ said Ong. ‘ A full-range speaker with deep bass and full dynamics, it has all the characteristics of Coltrane, which makes Mingus Quintet the very essence of a Marten speaker, a study in truthful sound that delivers the very lowest levels of distortion, so its sound is effortlessly natural and dynamic.’ If you’ve ever wanted to hear what a pair of $72,000 speakers sounds like, the speakers are set up for auditioning at Sound Gallery now. For more information, contact Sound Gallery on (03) 9578 8658 or (04) 0366 8755 or visit www.soundgallery.com.au