Next step up speakers in totem acoustic line from the totem forest?

I think the Forests are great speakers and capable of revealing upgrades elsewhere in the chain. Personally, before upgrading, I would consider a better phono cartridge, assuming you still have the Ortofon Bronze listed in your system. Try a Lyra MC or something like that. Even the lower-end ones will be an amazing upgrade, IMO. You may not even want to change speakers after that. I also like the Mani-2s, but I think you need a lot of transistor power to make them open up properly.  One last thing, as you like Canadian products, the Coincident speakers are really excellent.  Israel Blume has a great ear for speaker design, IMO.  He crosses over the woofers really low on his 3 way designs so you get the feeling of a 2-way, but with more bottom end.  Very nice stuff.  

I also like the Forests but haven't heard their newer models.  Might be a good opportunity to give a listen to some Reference 3A speakers of you haven't already.  Best of luck. 

When I purchased the forest I demoed the reference 3 a Vienna and chose the forests instead. They did not have the low end throw like the forests. And here is something interesting chayro. I have put a down payment for a new rp8 by rega and planing on getting a 2m black for it. So hopefully that improves the anolog side. Which I mostly buy vinyl because of the newer artists realizing the better sound quality. Also I love my forests so much already I'm going to use them for a soround setup. So I will always have them. Though I'm getting so much resolution with the Cary gear and the fabulous 303t scad pro even as a dac. I'm starting to notice the limits of a 2 way speaker. Espacialy with daft punk and disclosure the speakers tend lack the imaging and had to keep up in complex music. Though I have a father who owns a used pair of fires running with the same amp. But they do not lack the same as the forests with this kind of complex music. In fact they strangely excel in it. So that's why I was thinking of a 3 way tower maybe the earths or winds?