07.09.08
Posted in Blog, Speakers, Totem at by Simon
The Totem Mite is a micro-monitor which offers an aesthetic design as uncompromised as any Totem product.
Beyond aesthetics, Mite offers spectacular sound staging abilities and a seductive musicality. As with any quality Totem product, it offers value for money despite its size. Its dimensions are not a liability but contribute to one of its advantages: gigantic imaging and sound-staging. Vocals and choral works will astound you.
Discover a micro-monitor with precise focus, realism and defined bass information that extend well beyond established precepts. Writing about it is simply not enough. It must be experienced with all the senses. For the music lover whose priority is not only continuously huge dynamic contrasts but musical involvement, the Mite will fulfill and surprise without restraint. Discover its ability to encapsulate music and transmit its message and soul. You will follow.
- Usable in two-channel music systems and in home theater systems
- Lock-mitred cabinet joints, internal and external wood veneer (optional finishes)
- Aesthetic, acoustical finish
- Solid twin pair gold plated terminals
- No compromise drivers, wiring and crossover parts
MSRP: $675 – $895 / pair (depending on finish, demo pair available in flat black)
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Totem Acoustic’s Storm offers a compact solution to bass augmentation. Like its big brother, the Thunder, the Storm has many advanced design features, yet adds a few of its own to facilitate multiple uses.
The front firing driver in the Storm shares external cone topography and materials with the two flanking passive units. We believe that this contributes to a more informative and less compressed energy flow. As is the case with the upper echelon Thunder, the Storm is not only designed for cinema/surround applications, but is comfortable in a stereo or multi-channel audio environment.
The Storm benefits aesthetically from a choice of Totem’s four veneers on all faces and is also available in gloss black to match the Tribe on-wall models.
To enable multiple use, the Storm’s control panel has the following features:
- Automatic power down. Amplifier goes into standby when signal is absent. Reactivates automatically on signal reception
- Volume adjustment
- Variable phase dial (0° to 180°)
- 1 pair of low-level RCA inputs
- 1 pair of unfiltered low-level RCA outputs
- 2 pairs of unfiltered high-level terminal inputs
- 2 pairs of unfiltered high-level terminal outputs
- Crossover enabling/disabling switch to use low frequency management and control from processor. Allows use of a variety of speakers (mini monitors to full-range)
- Detachable power cord
MSRP: $1050 – $1265 (depending on finish, demo available in flat black)
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In the Totem Forest, pulse, speed and dynamic contrasts all add up to a tingling “surprise factor” that borders on the surreal.
At ease with all types of music, the Forest opens up corridors of new experiences.
Whether you’re listening in stereo, multi-channel audio, or a high quality A/V application, Forest speakers bring forth a synergy between spatial cues, imaging and powerful dynamics that go beyond what is expected of “any speaker”
- Aerodynamic rounded front baffle
Flush-mounted drivers
Angled rear baffle
- Irreproachable bi-wireable W.B.T. terminals
The industry standard
- “Claws” standard revolutionary floor interface supports
Control cabinet resonance
Gently and musically decouple speakers
- Lock-mitred “monocoque chassis”
Unique in the industry
Expensive to produce
- Extensive cross-bracing and radical angle internal floor
- Borosilicate damping
- Innovative porting allows for incredible extension and overall coherence
- Specially modified proprietary drivers
MSRP: $3495 - $4070 / pair (depending on finish)
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