Totem Acoustic Bookshelf Speakers | Made In Canada https://totemacoustic.com/product-category/loudspeakers/bookshelf-speakers/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:54:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://totemacoustic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Totem-favicon-white-v3-50x50.png Totem Acoustic Bookshelf Speakers | Made In Canada https://totemacoustic.com/product-category/loudspeakers/bookshelf-speakers/ 32 32 KIN ONE https://totemacoustic.com/product/totem-kin-one/ Sat, 03 Aug 2024 15:57:07 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=9601 The NEW KIN ONE was created to provide a simple yet remarkable audio solution. When paired with the KIN AMP it will ensure a musical, lifelike performance.

The KIN ONE doesn’t follow in the steps of its predecessor as it’s blazing ahead of virtually every small speaker made today. Taking advantage of Totem’s latest developments in both driver development and cabinet geometry it provides an addictive auditory and aesthetic experience.  In our very prolonged listening sessions during its development, people commented on how it instinctively adapted to all music types and contributed to the listeners’ wanting to hear more!

Pace, timbre and correct tone contriving with the gigantic imaging to give the listener a spellbinding experience.

Physically smaller yet capable of handling more power, the KIN ONE not only punches well above its weight, but it also effortlessly handles the challenges normally presented to much larger speakers and surpasses these on most critical aspects.

Pair it with a KIN AMP and marvel at the large soundstage and message they synergistically create together.

Bass is powerful, fast and musical. Nothing is more important than creating Totem’s sonic signature than phase linearity and KIN One offers just that. The carefully designed and chosen drivers result in a harmonious interaction, creating the perfect phase response that provides our three dimensional, almost holographic soundstage.

KIN ONE speakers not only image in-between their individual positions but also towards the outside of their axis (both vertical and horizontal). In placing the Bookshelf speakers in room, one may optimize their performance by placing them closer to one another.

The KIN ONE can conveniently be wall mounted with the appropriate bracket.  At the back of the KIN ONE is a threaded insert (1/4” -20) that allows the speakers to be mounted directly on the wall. It is best to place them very close to the ceiling.

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“Totem Acoustic’s Kin One system is an attractive and very capable setup. The Kin Amp is quite versatile, with a capable phono stage and a generous range of inputs. I was amazed at how much high-quality sound such small boxes could produce. Overall, Totem Acoustic’s Kin One music system is highly desirable and extremely listenable.”

– Thom Moon, SoundStage! Access

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Captivating Sound. Fun Colours.

KIN One + KIN AMP

Power It Up!

With the KIN AMP

KIN One + KIN AMP

Pair the KIN One speakers with the KIN AMP to build an impressive music system.

The KIN AMP is expertly-crafted amplifier that features a compact design and a deceptively powerful sound. It is equipped with Bluetooth and aptX HD for seamless wireless streaming, as well as analog and digital inputs for versatile connectivity.

What Makes the KIN One + KIN AMP Special?

Pair the KIN One speakers with the KIN AMP to build an impressive music system.

The KIN AMP is expertly-crafted amplifier that features a compact design and a deceptively powerful sound. It is equipped with Bluetooth and aptX HD for seamless wireless streaming, as well as analog and digital inputs for versatile connectivity.

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KIN Flex https://totemacoustic.com/product/kin-flex/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=9453 Ultra-flexible sound solution

There has never been a speaker as versatile as the ultra-flexible KIN Flex.

Put KIN Flex wherever you want or must.  On a table top, in a wall unit, on wall, on ceiling, horizontally, vertically, upside down, even at different heights. Its sealed enclosure, angled baffle, and huge dispersion ensure KIN Flex thrives in any position or location.

Be creative with them.  Position three under the TV for the ultimate sound bar.  Mount them high and upside down for a stealthy yet full room energizing option. The included wall bracket makes any installation possible, and easy.  However you adapt KIN Flex to your lifestyle they will bring your music to life, immerse you into the game, or transport you to the scene.

Listen closely and you can hear the mantra rise from the streets.

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Totem LOON Monitor https://totemacoustic.com/product/totem-loon-monitor/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:16:58 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=8654 The Totem LOON Monitor is proudly engineered and handcrafted in Canada. As its namesake implies, this monitor has a hypnotic and mystical ability to transmit sound in a perfectly fluid manner. It is designed to engage the listener with deep emotion, speed and balance.

The LOON Monitor is forgiving in terms of placement and capable of remarkable sonic performance even when listening from over 45 degrees off-axis. Despite its compact cabinet, it offers a bass that is deep and tight, yet not exaggerated, with an excellent impact and decay. The LOON Monitor is capable of producing full bandwidth sound even at low volumes, all the while offering astonishing imaging and scale of the music.

This profoundly musical monitor sounds fabulous with all genres of music. It will feel perfectly at home in any space, including your computer desk.

Engage on a magical music journey with the Totem LOON Monitor today.

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“ There’s an effect that comes from listening to the Loons that I’m sure you’re familiar with—I heard stuff I don’t normally hear, which drew me deeper into the music. Importantly, the Loon gets the essential stuff right: good crossover design, great bass, amazing imaging, holographic soundstage.”

Dennis Burger, SoundStage! Access

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“Buy these with confidence if you want a premium refined naturally sounding bookshelf loudspeaker that majors on a qualitative cohesive sound but which is no slouch with resolution and speed.”

Simon Price, 13th Note HiFi Review YouTube Channel

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“If you like a nice build, a traditional look to your speakers, you like dancing around to your music and you don’t really care about sitting in a sweet spot to get the best out of your speakers, the Totem Loons might be for you.”

– Taps Das, SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity

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Element Fire V2 https://totemacoustic.com/product/element-fire-v2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:00:03 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=7846

Even Hotter

This Fire is hotter than ever before.

Efficiency, bass response, and power handling specifications imply Fire V2 is a hulking tower rather than the statuesque monitor it is.  Now powered by next generation Torrent woofers, it is meticulously refined to redefine the category.

The proprietary magnetic design of Totem’s own Torrent woofers require absolutely no crossover components and allows an unadulterated flow of musical energy. The effect is felt as much as it is heard, simultaneously stimulating a physical and even emotional interaction as one listens.

Correspondingly radical tweeter design balances the Torrent spectrum with sparkling clarity, natural phase, and striking accuracy on and off axis.

Some speakers can be the centerpiece of the favorite family area, others the focal point of a dedicated listening room, some the core of a serious recording studio.  Fire V2 can – and will – do it all.

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Totem Element Fire V2

Bespoke Engineering | Sophisticated Performance | Made in Canada

Element Fire V2

$8,450.00 / Pair

Even Hotter

This Fire is hotter than ever before.

Efficiency, bass response, and power handling specifications imply Fire V2 is a hulking tower rather than the statuesque monitor it is.  Now powered by next generation Torrent woofers, it is meticulously refined to redefine the category.

The proprietary magnetic design of Totem’s own Torrent woofers require absolutely no crossover components and allows an unadulterated flow of musical energy. The effect is felt as much as it is heard, simultaneously stimulating a physical and even emotional interaction as one listens.

Correspondingly radical tweeter design balances the Torrent spectrum with sparkling clarity, natural phase, and striking accuracy on and off axis.

Some speakers can be the centerpiece of the favorite family area, others the focal point of a dedicated listening room, some the core of a serious recording studio.  Fire V2 can – and will – do it all.

Artful Elegance

Masterful Engineering

Totem's Exclusive Torrent Driver

Totem Torrent drivers are among the most advanced drivers in the world and represent Totem’s relentless drive to push the boundaries of sonic performance. The driver cradle is outfitted with seventeen 2.5-inch long neodymium magnets which employ a proprietary topology in the way they are magnetized. Incredibly, the Torrent drivers do not require a crossover in their complete frequency path, allowing a completely uninterrupted signal flow. Sonically, these drivers offer a midrange with staggering articulation, organic harmonics, speed, clarity and detail extraction. Please check out our Torrent Technology page to learn more details about the design of these remarkable drivers.

Titanium Dome Tweeter

The titanium dome tweeter is engineered to perfectly match the performance of the Torrent driver. Its chassis, which consists of the front plate and the rear fins, is constructed out of a single solid piece of metal which allows it to behave as a large radiator that is very efficient at keeping the tweeter stable and cool. This tweeter is designed to produce gigantic imaging that does not shift about in the listening position, even during huge dynamic contrasts and swings.

Unique Cabinet Construction

The Element V2 loudspeaker cabinets feature a complex geometric design, without any parallel surfaces. This design allows the cabinets to have a certain amount of energy that quickly dissipates, harmoniously aiding with the spatial attributes offered by the speakers and without blurring the image or reducing the dynamics. Borosilicate paint on the inside of the cabinets acts like a radiator and maintains cabinet stability and sonic performance for the lifetime of the speakers, unlike traditional fillers used by most speakers, which decay over time.

WBT Platinum Bi-Wire Speaker Terminals

The Element V2 loudspeakers are outfitted with the coveted WBT Platinum Bi-Wire speaker terminals. The aluminum terminal plate is custom machined and annealed to reduce reverb. The speaker terminals offer adequate spacing for increased comfort when connecting speaker cables.

Magnetic Grilles

The included grilles attach to the front baffles using hidden magnets which allows the front of the speaker to achieve a perfectly clean and minimalist appearance.

Engineered + Handcrafted In Canada

The Element V2 loudspeakers are meticulously engineered and hand-built at our state-of-the-art facility in Montreal, Quebec.

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Bison Monitor https://totemacoustic.com/product/bison-monitor/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:11:04 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=2725 Defying All Expectations

The made-in-Canada Bison Monitor redefines the luxury bookshelf speaker category by defying the visual expectations associated with such a small-volume enclosure. Purposefully designed to engage the broadest music lover audience to date, the Monitor Bison marries the signature Totem characteristics of enormous imaging, phase coherence, and remarkable bass response with broad amplifier compatibility and prodigious power handling.

Experience Totem’s never-ending quest for an affordable soul mover of the highest caliber. Regardless of what other audio components you pair this speaker with – whether it’s the KIN AMP, an exotic tube amplifier or a cutting-edge Totem surround system – it will reward you with a superior listening enjoyment.

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“Tight, quick bass handling, superb midrange definition and sparkling detail result in a sound that is always enjoyable and often eye-opening when weighted against the cabinet size and price tag. Consider it proof that good things really can come in small packages.”

Mark Craven, Hi-Fi News

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“Where the Bison Monitor excels – and where it lives up to Totem Acoustic’s ‘luxury bookshelf’ moniker – is with its really rather exceptional imaging ability and mid-range resolution. It crafts a wide, open soundstage where elements are precisely placed, always natural-sounding and not fighting for space. And the speakers themselves become almost invisible, so your focus is on the sounds they’re making, and not the units themselves.”

– Mark Craven, Home Cinema Choice

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“The Bison has all the qualities you’ll need from an audiophile speaker but in a smaller footprint… The sound of the (up to) 21 strings and the drone was clear on the Bisons. Quite an achievement for such a small, reasonable speaker from such a complex, unique instrument… The soundstage on both Shankar and Stravinsky was wide and deep and filled the medium-sized room. Monitor imaging was as expected. Precise… They look good, sound splendid, can take gobs of power, and have a natural, engaging sound in all genres. Recommended.”

– Anthony Kershaw, Audiophilia

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Speaker Highlights

Artisanal Cabinet Construction

The cabinet design features a lock-mitered, monocoque cabinetry with full cross bracing. Lock mitering produces a cabinet 4 times as rigid as V groove assembly and provides a substantially larger contact point for gluing. Expansion and contraction can occur over many decades without any sonic degradation.

Tweeters

The Bison series employs a brand new, custom-designed 1.3-inch laser etched textile soft dome tweeter that is neodymium magnet activated. This tweeter extends up to 30kHz and plays low enough to contribute to the midrange band, creating a seamless and captivating interplay.

Custom Woofers

The Bison series features custom woofers that are unique to Totem with the integration of critical proprietary elements and magnetics. These woofers are thoroughly engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our especially unique parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world.

Rear Ported Design

The double or single rear ports use the energy generated by the movement of the woofer to not only enhance the bass response of the Bison series but fine tune this bass response to be in perfect phase anywhere one listens to them in a room. These ports are carefully tuned in conjunction with the cabinet size, volume, and an internal critical labyrinth design to eliminate smearing at lower frequencies.

Connectors

Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.

Artisanal Cabinet Construction

The cabinet design features a lock-mitered, monocoque cabinetry with full cross bracing. Lock mitering produces a cabinet 4 times as rigid as V groove assembly and provides a substantially larger contact point for gluing. Expansion and contraction can occur over many decades without any sonic degradation.

Tweeters

The Bison series employs a brand new, custom-designed 1.3-inch laser etched textile soft dome tweeter that is neodymium magnet activated. This tweeter extends up to 30kHz and plays low enough to contribute to the midrange band, creating a seamless and captivating interplay.

Custom Woofers

The Bison series features custom woofers that are unique to Totem with the integration of critical proprietary elements and magnetics. These woofers are thoroughly engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our especially unique parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world.

Rear Ported Design

The double or single rear ports use the energy generated by the movement of the woofer to not only enhance the bass response of the Bison series but fine tune this bass response to be in perfect phase anywhere one listens to them in a room. These ports are carefully tuned in conjunction with the cabinet size, volume, and an internal critical labyrinth design to eliminate smearing at lower frequencies.

Connectors

Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.

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Signature One https://totemacoustic.com/product/signature-one/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:23:54 +0000 https://totemacoustic.com/?post_type=product&p=2239

Designed for our 30th Anniversary

Don’t call it a comeback. The Signature One, designed for our 30th anniversary, is not a “comeback” of the famous Model 1 that launched Totem. It is an elevated, advanced monitor loudspeaker reflecting the progression of our engineering prowess and is primed to knock you out.

The spirit of the Model 1 lives deep within it but the Signature One is quite unique and its superior performance defies comparison. An imposing 6.5-inch mineral infused woofer derived from the Forest driver is mated to a 1” aluminum dome tweeter housed in a rear chamber. Designed simultaneously to achieve the best phase relationship, their synergy is perfected by a handmade crossover consisting of only a few precious components.

Signature One is an homage to our history, an anniversary celebration, and a retro yet timeless design that will outperform competitors throughout its multi-decade lifespan.

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