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In Reply to: RE: Bi-wire question posted by popsy on June 23, 2016 at 15:34:51
If you have a regular stereo speaker cable + jumper, you have 4 permutations.I've lived with Totem's Arro, Hawk, Model 1 Signature, Forest, The One, Ember, Mani-2 Signature, and Fire. Go to AA's reviews section, and read my reviews of Totems. They all feature my coverage of bi-wiring.
For the Element Ember and Fire, your stereo speaker cable should go first to the woofer, and then jumper to the tweeter.
For the non-Element models, your stereo speaker cable should go first to the tweeter posts, and then jumper to the woofer. Photo above shows the Nordost Odin stereo pair going to The One's tweeter posts.
And of course, you can mix it up, as well. For example, you can make your stereo speaker cable's (+) go to the Totem's tweeter, while the (-) goes to the woofer. Or vice versa.
As always, make sure you have properly treated your cables on a device such as the audiodharma Cable Cooker.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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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.
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Products! Especially on my DreamCatchers :) My short term memory is very poor, so unless I would have another pair side by side, one wired one way and one another, I probably could not remember which way "sounds" better. Guess I will them the way they unless I happen to find another pair on the cheap side :)
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