Totem Forest Signature v. Joseph Audio Profile

larstusor,

For your guidance, I have the Totem Forest Signatures and love them. For more current insight please visit the link below. Kindest regards.

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https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/totem-acoustic-forest-signatures

prof1, my Totem Signatures 1 's do none of the things you describe.

There are a hundred and one ways you  can make do what you say they do upstream .

shubert,
Then you’ve received a golden sample where they deviated from their norm ;-)

I’ve heard many Totem speakers over the years (local dealer has sold the line as long as I can remember). And they all had that same sonic signature. A perceptible dip and a spike in the upper mids/high frequencies.

You can see how they have that dip around 4K and get a bit "spiky" at around 1K in both the measurements from Stereophile and Soundstage:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/totem-acoustic-signature-one-loudspeaker-measurements

https://www.soundstage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1855:nrc-measurement...

I was able to listen to the Totem Signatures 1 ’s at my pal’s home and, yup, that’s how they sounded.
As I said, it is a sort of attractive sound. I’m just too conscious of the "Totem sound" to live with them for too long.

Anyone actually heard the JA Profile?