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RE: Dreamcatcher

Posted by Luminator (A) on June 23, 2016 at 23:11:14

In Reply to: Dreamcatcher posted by popsy on June 23, 2016 at 20:00:35:

I only have limited experience with the little Totem Dreamcatcher. But from those brief experiences, I garnered some impressions. One, unlike the majority of audiophile speakers, the Dreamcatcher is honest up top. That is, it doesn't roll off or curtail the upper-midrange to treble. Two, while most audiophile speakers are voiced to have their own sound, my impression [remember, having lived with myriad Totems, I have biases/expectations] was that the Dreamcatcher's goal was to be uncolored, articulate, and true to the source. Because the Dreamcatcher seemed to have less of a personality, it'll do a better job of "getting out of the way." It allowed listeners to hear better what was really going on upstream.

Three, there's no deep bass. And, you're not going to get fulsome or massive mid-to-upper bass. However, in the small rooms the Dreamcatcher will be used, this lack of overblown (mid)bass is a godsend. What bass it has is under control, with little drag.

Four, the Dreamcatcher has average sensitivity. Again, in small rooms, that is a good thing.

Five, in a nod to cost control, the Dreamcatcher has those awful "stair-step" bi-wire binding posts. The metal strap, even if you Cook it, introduces losses and colorations. Moreover, the shaft's diameter precludes the use of most spade lugs. Yet, the hole for bananas is shallow. My best man has the Arro, which has these same awful stair-step binding posts. Single-wire + jumper was out. He went with an internally bi-wired Nordost speaker cable, terminated with Z-plug bananas. Works perfectly.

Perhaps because my Totem Element Fire (pictured above) does not have a crossover, it, unlike non-Element Totems, actually has the flatter tonal balance and better PRAT, when running the stereo speaker cable to the woofer posts, and then jumpering to the tweeter posts.

Edits: 06/23/16 06/23/16

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