München 2018, Vitus & Marten: Swedish manufacturer Marten demo’d several speakers at Munich, but I was smitten by its giant three-way, ten-driver (four 9" ceramic woofers, four 9" aluminum passive radiators, one 7" ceramic midrange, and 1" diamond tweeter), wood-and-carbon-fiber-enclosed Coltrane Momento 2 (€310k), driven by Vitus electronics. In spite of its gargantuan dimensions (15.4" x 65.4" x 23.6"), the Coltrane Momento 2 was neutral, 3-D, spacious, alive, and astonishingly of a piece from top to bottom—excellent on digital and on an R2R recording of a jazz trio (where it was superb on bass, drum, and ride cymbal), and among the best I heard on my Stachmo and Chet Baker LPs. Oh, the low end might have been a bit overdamped, and the room was adding a touch of brightness to the topmost treble; still, the Coltrane Momento 2’s sound was so tight and coherent it was like listening to a two-way the size of the Ritz.