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This made-in-Canada flagship Bison Twin Tower is a stunning result of our continued evolution of expertise in loudspeaker engineering. Designed to allow listeners to truly experience the full-scale of musical vistas, this speaker is so immersive that you will get completely lost in the music. It pairs well with a broad array of electronics and when used with a well-designed amplifier, it will provide a world-class sonic experience that will satisfy the most discerning tastes.
The Bison Twin Tower combines two high-performance woofers that operate in the same frequency domain, allowing them to provide a lush, thick midrange and the ever-important bass fullness, which is unique in the floorstanding speaker category. Thanks to carefully selected components, custom driver development and evolved hard-wired crossovers, this tower manages to achieve symbiotic, synergistic and remarkably musical relationships between all of its interconnected parts.
Prepare to be blown away by the Bison Twin Tower.
| Design: | Ported 2-Way Tower Speaker |
| Tweeter: | 1.3 in /33 mm Laser Etched Textile Soft Dome |
| Woofer: | 5.25 in / 133.35mm Copper Clad Voice Coil |
| Impedance: | 4 Ohm |
| Sensitivity: | 90 db |
| Frequency Response: | 31 Hz to 29.9 kHz ± 3 dB |
| Recommended Power: | 30-200W |
| Crossover Frequency: | 2.5 kHz (second order) |
| Speaker Terminals: | 4 way Bi-Wire-able |
| Break in Time: | 70-100 hours |
| Placement (from rear wall): | 1 – 3ft/ 304.8 – 914.4mm |
| Placement (in between): | 4ft – 12ft / 1219.2 – 3657.6mm |
| Dimensions | |
| Width: | 187mm / 7.362in |
| Height: | 975mm / 38.386in and 989mm/38.937 in (with Claws installed) |
| Depth: | 260mm / 10.236in and 270mm / 10.630in (with Grill Installed) |
| Weight: | 42.90lb / 19.46kg |
“The Twin Towers performed admirably with every musical genre I threw at them and were true crowd pleasers. I’ve been reveling in the mellifluous midrange of the Bison Twin Towers these past several months. It is chiefly thanks to their aptitude in this audio range that I’ve enjoyed listening to these speakers more than to any other floorstander from Totem. Is the Bison Twin Tower Totem Acoustic’s best-sounding, most-beautiful speaker yet? At least to the eyes of this beholder, the Twin Towers in satin white must be the most attractive of Totem’s current and past offerings. And of the ones I’ve heard, it is also the best sounding.”
– Doug Schneider, SoundStage! HiFi
“At no time did my ears or brain ever tire of the music being played by these speakers; it was all enjoyment all the time. There is such a musical coherence and correctness to the music when played through these speakers that my ears simply heard music. I heard 3D soundstage effects and low-level details in the record I had never heard before. The Totem Bison Twin Tower speakers portrayed enough of the bass energy, soundstage activity, and multitracked synthesizer sounds to enable me to fully experience this album. The Totem Bison Twin Towers will give you more than what you paid for and will reward you for continued listening in the long run. They will give you articulate, coherent, and engaging sound in a well-crafted and attractive enclosure.”
– Gene Hopstetter, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity
“As much as I’m impressed with the overall dynamics of these loudspeakers, what really impresses me even more has to be the mid-range. The mid-range has the right amount of bloom and this full body, full sounding musical presentation that literally puts me into an emotional coma every single time I listen to these loudspeakers. And part of that emotional engagement is not only that it’s warm and luscious but it’s also great at separation within the soundstage and really good clarity in the high frequencies and in the mid-range.”
– Jay Lee, Jay’s iyagi YouTube Channel
“This pair of loudspeakers has excellent dynamics and power. They offer a bass that is both powerful and well controlled. Here is a pair of floor standing loudspeakers that are practically faultless. Thanks to a smart and well-informed design, they prove that it is possible to locally manufacture high-level loudspeakers and offer them at a reasonable price.”
Jean-Denis Doyle, Tendances Electroniques & Design
Tweeters
The Bison series employs a brand new, custom-designed 1.3-inch laser etched textile soft dome tweeter that is neodymium magnet activated. This tweeter extends up to 30kHz and plays low enough to contribute to the midrange band, creating a seamless and captivating interplay.
Custom Woofers
The Bison series features custom woofers that are unique to Totem with the integration of critical proprietary elements and magnetics. These woofers are thoroughly engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our especially unique parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world.
Artisanal Cabinet Construction
The cabinet design features a lock-mitered, monocoque cabinetry with full cross bracing. Lock mitering produces a cabinet 4 times as rigid as V groove assembly and provides a substantially larger contact point for gluing. Expansion and contraction can occur over many decades without any sonic degradation.
Acoustic Decoupling Claw
The newly engineered Claw uses a high-density DELRIN composite to successfully break up standing waves. This CNC machined Claw controls surface resonances, tightens bass and accurately heightens the soundstage.
Connectors
Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.
Rear Ported Design
The double or single rear ports use the energy generated by the movement of the woofer to not only enhance the bass response of the Bison series but fine tune this bass response to be in perfect phase anywhere one listens to them in a room. These ports are carefully tuned in conjunction with the cabinet size, volume, and an internal critical labyrinth design to eliminate smearing at lower frequencies.
Tweeters
The Bison series employs a brand new, custom-designed 1.3-inch laser etched textile soft dome tweeter that is neodymium magnet activated. This tweeter extends up to 30kHz and plays low enough to contribute to the midrange band, creating a seamless and captivating interplay.
Custom Woofers
The Bison series features custom woofers that are unique to Totem with the integration of critical proprietary elements and magnetics. These woofers are thoroughly engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our especially unique parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world.
Artisanal Cabinet Construction
The cabinet design features a lock-mitered, monocoque cabinetry with full cross bracing. Lock mitering produces a cabinet 4 times as rigid as V groove assembly and provides a substantially larger contact point for gluing. Expansion and contraction can occur over many decades without any sonic degradation.
Acoustic Decoupling Claw
The newly engineered Claw uses a high-density DELRIN composite to successfully break up standing waves. This CNC machined Claw controls surface resonances, tightens bass and accurately heightens the soundstage.
Connectors
Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.
Rear Ported Design
The double or single rear ports use the energy generated by the movement of the woofer to not only enhance the bass response of the Bison series but fine tune this bass response to be in perfect phase anywhere one listens to them in a room. These ports are carefully tuned in conjunction with the cabinet size, volume, and an internal critical labyrinth design to eliminate smearing at lower frequencies.
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.
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.
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.
Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.
The success of Totem’s acoustic decoupling Claw on other towers made it appealing to include but the associated costs were prohibitive for the price point. A new version featuring a high-density Delrin machined composite achieved the cost target and succeeds in breaking up standing waves and controlling surface resonance, tightening bass, and heightening the soundstage. These Delrin Claws are fitted with ¼ 20 thread inserts to accommodate optional spikes (not included). NOT REQUIRED: Bison Towers have been voiced with the claw as is, no spikes, needed nor recommended. It has been integrated should the rare need for a spike arise, as on a thick carpet to add stability.
Totem Bison loudspeakers are meticulously engineered and hand-built at our state-of-the-art facility in Montreal, Quebec.
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