Totem Acoustic Forest
The Totem Acoustic Forest pairs a slender, room-friendly tower form with first-rate construction, a rigid narrow cabinet and quality WBT bi-wire terminals. Stereophile highlights design choices intended to reduce diffraction and encourage point-source coherence, while the 30Hz in-room specification and 50–200W power range give this compact floorstander serious system-building appeal.
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Just Okay
Sound Quality
75/100
Build Quality
92/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
First-rate construction with a rigid, slim floorstanding cabinet.
Narrow baffle is designed to reduce diffraction and bring the drivers closer to point-source behaviour.
Quality hardware includes gold-plated WBT bi-wire speaker terminals.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 75/100
The available review provides no direct listening impressions of the Forest. It describes a narrow two-way design, but does not report on tonal balance, bass performance, imaging in use, or dynamic behaviour.
Bass
75/100
The Forest uses a 6.5-inch mid/bass driver and is specified to reach 30Hz in room, but the review offers no listening evidence about extension, control, weight, or texture. There is no reported indication of how it performs with demanding low-frequency material.
Mid
75/100
The review does not discuss vocal realism, instrumental timbre, midrange body, or coherence through the crossover region. Its description of the driver complement is not a substitute for listening impressions.
Treble
75/100
Although the review identifies a 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter, it does not describe treble detail, air, refinement, or potential brightness. There is no direct evidence on how the top end sounds in a system.
Soundstage Imaging
75/100
Stereophile notes that the narrow cabinet should help reduce diffraction and bring the drivers closer to point-source behaviour. However, it does not provide a listening report on stage width, depth, image focus, or placement sensitivity.
Dynamics
75/100
The review gives no direct account of the Forest's macro-dynamic scale, low-level expression, or composure at high volume. Its 50-200W recommended-power range does not establish real-world dynamic performance.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
92/100
Stereophile found the Forest's construction to be first-rate. The review also describes a substantial 45.2lb, narrow floorstanding cabinet with quality named drive units and gold WBT bi-wire terminals, though it does not address long-term durability.
Value for Money
85/100
At roughly $4,895-$5,400, the Forest occupies a premium compact-floorstander segment. The available review does not assess value, compare it with similarly priced rivals, or say whether its asking price is justified.
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Specifications
- Frequency Response
- 30 Hz – 20 kHz ± 3 dB (in room).
- Recommended Power
- 50-200w
- Woofer
- 6.5″ / 16.51 cm 3″ / 7.62 cm voice coil
- Tweeter
- 1″ / 2.54 cm aluminum dome, chambered
- Impedance
- 8 Ohm (6.4 minimum)
- Sensitivity
- 87dB
- Dimensions (w x h x d)
- 7.7″ x 34.3″ x 10.6″ / 19.558 x 87.122 x 26.924 cm
- Placement from rear wall
- 1′ – 6′ / 30.48 – 182.88 cm
- Placement distance apart
- 4′ – 12′ / 121.92 – 365.76 cm
- Break-in Time
- 100-150 hours
- Crossover Frequency
- 2.5 kHz compensated, 2nd order
- Speaker Terminals
- Bi-wireable, Gold WBT connectors
- Weight
- 45.2lb / 20.53kg
Manufacturer's Description — Totem Acoustic
Designed For Beauty
Enter the realm of beauty with the Totem Forest. Designed for power and articulate voicing, the Forest is at ease with all types of music. Whether in stereo, multi-channel audio or a high-quality A/V application, the Forest creates a synergy between spatial imaging and dynamic power that goes beyond the usual.
The Forest offers pulse, speed and dynamic contrasts that add up to a tingling surprise factor, bringing freshness to your listening experience. With its innovative design, incredible sound extension and overall coherence, the Totem Forest allows you to discover beautiful harmonics that open up to infinite worlds of spatial sonority.
Design Highlights
- Elegant design and aesthetic compactness
- Specially modified proprietary drivers
- Flush-mounted drivers
- Aerodynamic rounded front baffle and angled rear baffle
- Extensive cross-bracing and radical angle internal floor
- Available in exotic veneer or Design multicoated polyester finishes
- Lock mitered monocoque chassis
- Ultra-expansive borosilicate damping
- Exclusive, hardwired crossover
- Silvered OFC wiring
- Claw: for advanced decoupling from floor
- Bi-wire-able gold plated WBT terminals
- Magnetic Grilles
Customized Drivers
Every single driver is completely unique to Totem and proprietary in design, engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world. In some cases, where the technology is beyond the capabilities of suppliers or is wished to be kept secret, Totem can and will build our own drivers. Every driver exhibits phase linearity, speed, emotion, off axis natural presentation, and spatial articulation.
Handmade Crossovers
Totem crossovers don’t require many parts because of the synergy between our customized drivers, but the components are the world’s best. Our crossovers aren’t built on PCB’s because the laminated conductive tracks are weak and inconsistent. Instead they are secured to a thin piece of fiberboard or insulated polymers and components are mechanically crimped together because it simply sounds better. When we must solder, we choose WBT Silver Solder, the purest in the industry.
Artisanal Cabinet Construction
Meticulously hand crafted for peak performance that lasts decades. Lock-Miter assembly is an intricate woodworking procedure where edges physically interlock together. The resulting cabinet is up to 5 times stronger than conventional V Groove cabinets. Internal and external veneering resists warping, structurally fortifies, and ensures consistent peak performance. Industry unique Borosilicate damping manages dissipation, keeps the cabinet musically alive, and never deteriorates. Popular materials like poly fillers eventually decay, dramatically affecting the performance. Variable Density Fiberboard is denser at the extremities than the interior to reduce repetitive nodes and resonances.
Connectors
Premium WBT connectors are the preferred choice by all audiophiles. WBT connectors lets the signal through without interfering or affecting it. Superior connectors like WBT connectors will prevent any signal loss and get the most out of the entire system.
Sound Isolation Claw
Machined from solid aluminum, the unique geometric shape breaks up surface standing waves and controls surface resonance as it acoustically decouples the speaker. Can be used with or without ball bearing, depending on surface. It provides improved bass response and imaging.
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