Marten – Mingus Series – Quintet 2

Description

Overview

The Mingus Quintet 2 is a three-way, bass-reflex floorstanding loudspeaker from Marten, the Swedish high-end maker. It brings together a pure diamond tweeter, a ceramic midrange and a trio of sandwich-cone bass drivers in a design built around Marten’s belief in first-order crossovers and time-coherent behaviour.

Design & build

Marten builds the Mingus Quintet 2 in Sweden to reference standards. It is a substantial three-way floorstander, with the driver complement chosen for the intrinsic stiffness and low resonance of their materials — diamond and ceramic at the top, aluminium-sandwich honeycomb for the bass — and a first-order crossover network designed to preserve the integrity of the signal.

Sound & performance

The Quintet 2 offers wide bandwidth and coherence: quoted frequency response is 24Hz–100kHz (±2dB), with sensitivity of 88dB, a 6-ohm nominal impedance and 300W power handling. The combination of rigid driver materials and a first-order crossover is aimed at a fast, transparent and phase-accurate presentation with genuine low-end extension.

Key features

The driver array comprises a 0.75-inch pure diamond tweeter, a 5-inch ceramic midrange and three 7-inch aluminium sandwich honeycomb bass drivers. The crossover is first-order, set at 370Hz and 4,000Hz — a gentle 6dB-per-octave design chosen for its time and phase coherence.

Technology

Marten uses a Cell diamond tweeter from Accuton, exploiting diamond’s exceptional stiffness-to-weight ratio and high internal sound velocity for low distortion at the frequency extremes. The ceramic midrange dome, made by a refined electrochemical process, combines light weight with high rigidity and a high material resonance frequency, keeping distortion low. The first-order crossover ties the drivers together with minimal phase disturbance.

Specifications

Type: three-way bass-reflex floorstander. Drivers: 0.75-inch Accuton diamond tweeter, 5-inch ceramic midrange, 3 × 7-inch aluminium sandwich honeycomb bass. Frequency response: 24Hz–100kHz (±2dB). Sensitivity: 88dB. Nominal impedance: 6 ohms. Power handling: 300W. Crossover: first-order at 370Hz and 4,000Hz. Made in Sweden.

Who it’s for

The Mingus Quintet 2 is for the committed two-channel listener with a medium-to-large room who values transparency, speed and coherence, and who wants the resolution that diamond and ceramic drivers bring — supported by amplification and sources of matching quality.

Why buy from Hidden Home Technology

Reference loudspeakers of this kind reward careful setup and system matching. We can advise on partnering electronics, cabling and placement, and arrange delivery and installation across the South. Speak to our team to discuss a demonstration or your room.