Describe your Totem Arro System


Greetings folks,
Recently picked up a new pair of Totem Arro floorstanders (along with Totem DreamCatcher center and surrounds, and totem Storm sub).

For those of you Audiogoners who have a pair of Arros, what else is in your system? Electronics, speaker cables, IC's? Using them just for 2-channel listening, or also within a HT system?

Thanks in advance.
headshrinker2
i have owned two channel arro speakers for sometime and love them, i know you will enjoy your units. i have used all kinds of electronics with them, but only in two channel and it sounds as if you are going to use amp for home thea. and i haven't done that , so i will tell you the cables i have used with great success. i have use rs cables, you can see them on my system below my name....i love them, but not too expensive and not real expensive, the others that i like are signal cable, love them...others are the audioquest p4 speaker cables which are a joy to use. i have use some more expensive cables, transparent and more expensive audioquest, they were somewhat better but in pricing i did not think they were worth the higher price. rs, signal are excellent choices, as a tag along, i will say the electronics i used with great success, from best to lower success, naim, krell, unison, rega, tubed equipment, cayin, cary.....hope this helps, and you will love your purchase with totem, they are great,especially with the sub.......dwhitt
Hey Dwhitt,
Thanks so much for the thoughtful and detailed reply. Very helpful.

All those amps you listed, did you own all of those at one time.. or just audition them?

On the Audioquest cable, when you said p4- are these the "Type 4" or something different? Also, have you usually run single wire to your Arros or biwire? Did biwiring make much of a difference to your ears?

I am greatly enjoying my Arros so far. My Arros are starting out as the mains in my HT system, but I have a funny feeling they are going to end up in their own little comfy 2-channel listening room w/ some nice electronics.
as i said, i can only tell you about the two ch. system i used the arro speakers. the type 4 is correct by audioquest, i used them with the bi connects sent with speakers and found they sounded fine, although i used the anti cables ,used with biwire, the anti jumpers and it did sound somwhat better. i forgot to tell you about the antispeaker cables and jumpers that i bought on audiogon, they worked well. i amps i owned them all, i like tube, but believe the arro sounded better to me with solid state. the naim was outstanding, now totem shows their equipment with ayre with the larger speakers and i have seen them set up with sim audio amps. the krell 400xi sounded great and the unison , it used pre tube and s.s. output..hybrid and i liked that alot...these were not great differences but they were somewhat differences, if you buy good amps they will do well with the arro...i don't know how they will sound video...so let me know...i did own all the amps mentioned and used with them, at the time my system shows the cayin tube. if you can buy used or new anti and you like the look ok then by all means use them with the jumpers.....i still have arro speakers in my bedroom system with cambridge equipment with the audioqust cable and it is fine...