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Marten Coltrane Quintet
What you get
Featuring our signature first-order crossover and custom drivers—pure diamond tweeter, beryllium high-midrange, and new carbon fibre mid-bass—alongside aluminium sandwich bass drivers in a bass reflex design. With a cabinet 25% larger than the Coltrane 3, it delivers deeper bass. The carbon fibre cabinet offers superior resonance control, maintaining the sleek Coltrane profile with structural enhancements for stability. Available in polished carbon fibre laminate or lacquered Piano Black finish.
- 4-way bass reflex
- Custom pure diamond tweeter
- Custom pure beryllium high-midrange
- Custom convex carbon fibre mid-bass
- Signature first order crossover
- Jorma internal wiring
- Marten Isolators
New for 2025
Coltrane Quintet Extreme is the latest, most powerful statement in the Coltrane series to date — limited to just ten pairs worldwide.
Crafted entirely by hand in Sweden, this four-way loudspeaker features:
- 1″ Pure diamond tweeter
- 3″ Pure diamond high midrange
- 7″ Pure beryllium midrange
- Carbon fibre and solid wood cabinet
- Enhanced First-order crossover
- Jorma Paragon internal wiring
- Marten Isolators
6000-60000 Hz
Coltrane Quintet’s pure diamond tweeter offers the best in sound reproduction, leveraging diamond’s unique properties for unrivalled clarity and precision.
With its exceptional stiffness-to-weight ratio, pure diamond ensures instantaneous response without distortion, revealing intricate details with accuracy. Additionally, diamond’s thermal conductivity guarantees stable performance even under intense listening conditions, preserving the tweeter’s integrity and longevity.
Integrating this tweeter into Coltrane Quintet offers an immersive, lifelike listening experience that sets an enviable standard in high-end audio reproduction.
1000-6000 Hz
Our pure beryllium high-midrange driver epitomises our pursuit of sonic perfection. Tailored with precision, it harnesses beryllium’s exceptional properties for performance. Its stiffness, lightness, and damping ensure accurate reproduction of vocals and instruments with precision.
The driver’s fast transient response captures every nuance of the original recording, while its seamless integration with our signature first-order crossover ensures coherence across frequencies. In Coltrane Quintet, this driver delivers unmatched clarity, detail, and musicality: bringing music to life.
170-1000 Hz
The convex carbon fibre mid-bass driver offers a host of benefits to offer Coltrane Quintet. Its convex shape enhances rigidity while minimising weight, allowing for greater piston-like motion and improved transient response. This translates into tighter, more articulate bass reproduction with remarkable speed and accuracy, ensuring every note is delivered with precision and impact.
Furthermore, the use of carbon fibre provides exceptional damping properties, reducing unwanted resonance and distortion for a cleaner, more transparent sound. This means you can enjoy controlled, powerful bass without any muddiness, even at high volumes.
18-170 Hz
Coltrane Quintet features 2 x 10” aluminium sandwich drivers meticulously engineered for exemplary bass performance. These drivers excel in delivering deep, powerful bass with exceptional clarity and precision. The aluminium sandwich construction ensures optimal stiffness and damping, minimising distortion and resonance for a tight, articulate bass response.
These drivers ensure every note in the lower ranges are reproduced with stunning detail and impact, allowing you to really feel the music.
Cabinet
Using carbon fibre for Coltrane Quintet’s cabinets is an easy choice, due to its superior technological advantages and profound impact on sound quality. Its rigidity and low resonance minimise cabinet vibrations, ensuring the drivers operate with maximum accuracy. This results in transparent and natural sound reproduction, capturing every detail of the music.
Available in polished carbon fibre for those that want to reveal the strength of the material.
Cabinet
Using carbon fibre for Coltrane Quintet’s cabinets is an easy choice, due to its superior technological advantages and profound impact on sound quality. Its rigidity and low resonance minimise cabinet vibrations, ensuring the drivers operate with maximum accuracy. This results in transparent and natural sound reproduction, capturing every detail of the music.
Available in lacquered Piano Black carbon fibre for high gloss, minimalist style.
Baffle
The Coltrane Quintet baffle can be constructed from solid wood or high-gloss lacquered fibreboard—both layered with aluminium for stability and resonance reduction.
Opt for, carefully selected walnut or oak to give you a warm, natural finish, or for those more bold among us, there are five contemporary gloss finishes: Piano Black, Piano Grey, Piano Plum, Piano Red and Piano Gold.
See Finishes selector below
Internal wiring
We take every detail seriously to ensure the best possible listening experience. That’s why we use Jorma internal wiring, which are handmade in Sweden to the highest standards of quality and performance. Using separate + and – conductors, Jorma cables offer enhanced shielding and the highest quality copper, resulting in a natural, transparent sound that perfectly complements our speaker design. Jorma delivers exactly what we need to achieve the best possible sound.
Feet
Reducing resonance is crucial to the design of our speakers as it can significantly impact the sound quality. That’s why we developed Marten Isolators with IsoAcoustics technology. These precision isolators separate the cabinet from the floor, reducing resonance and distortion—freeing the soundstage.
- Dynamic bass with power and control
- Natural openness and clarity
- Optimised for cabinet weight
- Resists lateral movement and oscillations
- Reduces internal reflections
- Suitable for carpet (with discs)
Crossover
The first order crossover has always been an integral component of the Coltrane sound. The crossover for Coltrane Quintet offers sound which is open, clean and dynamic, making it exceptionally powerful in the bass frequencies. This type of crossover makes it possible to have perfect time and phase coherence; and flawless time coincidence. This means that all registers are generated at the exact same moment, as it was recorded.
We use only the finest components for our crossovers:
- Copper foil air core coils
- Silver/Copper in oil/paper capacitors
- Silver/Gold capacitors
- Custom-made resistors
- Jorma internal wiring
Upgrade
Coltrane Quintet can be upgraded to Statement Edition, featuring Jorma Statement internal cables and the highest quality crossover components.
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Professional Reviews 92/100
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
94/100
Build Quality
93/100
Value for Money
85/100
Built for reference-level clarity, the Coltrane Quintet pairs a diamond tweeter, beryllium high-midrange, and carbon-fibre bass system with a larger, heavily braced cabinet for a wide, natural soundstage. Robert Silva highlights its crystal-clear, life-like presentation and stronger bass and dynamics, while the ultra-rare design feels unapologetically flagship.
What Reviewers Are Saying
Pros
Delivers high-resolution, crystal-clear sound with a wide, accurate, life-like soundstage.
Improved bass response and dynamics give it a bigger, more effortless low-end presentation.
Carbon-fibre cabinet, larger stand, and resonance control features suggest serious engineering and stability.
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Cons
Extremely expensive, putting it squarely in ultra-high-end territory for very deep-pocketed buyers.
Praise is based partly on brief show listening, so long-term ownership impressions are limited.
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 94/100
Reviewers describe the Coltrane Quintet as delivering high-resolution, crystal-clear sound with a wide and accurate soundstage that feels life-like and natural. The limited listening report still points to a very ambitious, highly refined presentation with clear gains in bass response, dynamics, and overall resonance control.
Bass
94/100
The speaker’s large, bass-reflex, multi-driver layout is described as an improvement in bass response, with the bigger cabinet giving it more internal volume for lower extension. Reviewers specifically highlight better bass response and note the design is intended to extend low-frequency reach further.
Mid
95/100
Reviewers call out the beryllium high-midrange and describe the overall presentation as high-resolution, crystal-clear, and natural. That points to a very open, precise midrange character with strong clarity and realism.
Treble
96/100
The pure diamond tweeter is singled out, and the overall sound is described as crystal-clear and highly resolving. The available review evidence suggests top-tier refinement and detail rather than any hint of glare or roughness.
Soundstage Imaging
93/100
Reviewers describe a wide and accurate soundstage that comes across as life-like and natural. The praise is strong, though it is based on a brief show observation rather than multiple extended listening reports.
Dynamics
94/100
The review explicitly says the Quintet brings improvements in dynamics, alongside bass response and resonance reduction. That suggests strong scale and ease, even if the excerpt does not give lots of detail about macro slam or extreme-volume handling.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
93/100
Reviewers highlight the carbon-fiber cabinet, improved structural rigidity, larger stand, and Marten Isolators as meaningful engineering upgrades. The overall impression is of a very substantial, carefully executed loudspeaker, though the excerpt does not go so far as repeated best-in-class praise for craftsmanship.
Value for Money
85/100
The asking price is firmly in ultra-luxury territory at around $190,000 to $209,000 per pair, but the review does not really compare it with peers or directly judge whether it is good value. The tone is more about extraordinary performance than about value, so there is little basis for a stronger value verdict.
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