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In Reply to: Totem speaker posted by Bill the K on January 17, 2025 at 08:12:23:
Totem Rainmaker SUCK !!!!
Let's just be brutally honest 99% of reviews are blatant lies told by people who profit from the audio industry. And why would you believe what a stranger says? An audio reviewer is no different than a lawyer, used car salesman or a politician they are all profiting off their lies!!
Look at the John Atkison measurements I have reposted they tell the story of a speaker that has cheap drivers with horrible frequency responses that belong in the trash.
One look at the impedance the first impedance spike is smaller than the second spike this tells us the speakers cabinet is too small of a volume along with no cabinet bracing and a port that is too small causing a bump from 60 HZ to 400 HZ with a 6db peak. Look at the frequency response of the individual drivers you can clearly see the mid/woofer cone is breaking up from 600 HZ to 2000 KHZ. And the tweeter is one of the worst frequencies responses I have ever seen in a mass-produced speaker. From 4000 KHZ to 17000 KHZ the tweeter is to loud with almost 10db peak this is a huge problem an increase of 10db sounds twice as loud to the human ear, so this tweeter is almost twice as loud as the average frequencies that is totally unacceptable, and this speaker should never have been produced.
So, is the designer Vince Bruzzese incompetent when it comes to speaker design absolutely not so why would he design such a horrible speaker? using drivers that do not measure as good as speakers in a 1970's boom box?
Sad to say this speaker is all about profit not design the cheap peerless made in India drivers he used suck Why would he use a mid/woofer that start to break up at 600 HZ and why use a tweeter that can't play flat from 4000 KHZ to 17000 KHZ?
The answer is he did not choose the drivers because of their response he chose them because they were a mistake by the manufacturer and sold at a huge savings the drivers retail are $20 mid/woofer and $15 tweeter. What happens is the manufacturer made a run of these drivers possibly making a couple thousand or more before catching a mistake or the purchaser cannot or does not pay and the manufacturer not wanting to be stuck with the drivers will sell them off at a huge discount. He probably bought 2000 mid/woofers and 2000 tweeters for $2000 to maybe $2500 when a manufacture is trying to sell drivers like these the price is always very cheap and very negotiable.
I am sure the cabinets are premade from China. Chinese wholesalers like Alibaba have a wide verity of premade empty speaker cabinets bought in bulk they are cheap.
These speakers are a good example of people in the high-end audio industry making profit from trusting customers that do not realize they are being robbed of their hard-earned money. There is only one logical reason any competent speaker designer would use such horrible drivers that reason is they were dirt cheap combine that with a cheap premade Chinese cabinet and you now have a scam/speaker to bring to market. This is where things get really shady due to the fact people gave these speakers good reviews is proof, they are profiting or doing a favor for a friend or friend of a friend.
There are many scam products in the high-end audio industry like it or not it is true people we want to trust are the people that will steal from us first and never think twice about doing so.
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