Fit for any musical genre, the KIN’s sound precision and full spectrum projection allows for a deeper emotional connection with the music. The KIN’s non-shifting image, on-or off-axis, stands clear and defined no matter where one stands in the room. It delivers an incomparable presence in the mid and high frequencies with a breathy and detailed musicality.
Made with interrelated proprietary woofers and tweeters, like the jewel high-performance MHEX cone woofers and the hyper extending dome tweeters, the KIN offers perfect sound staging and phase correctness to bring an absolutely startling emotion-filled room musicality. Designed to expand the musical experience, the new KIN is truly an authentic TOTEM speaker.
Design Highlights
- Steel buttressed front facade
- Streamlined lightweight architecture
- Low margin grill frame with super-flat cushioned grill
- Outer rear dampening brace
- Rear-wire management channels
Technical Features
- Minimum usage of crossover
- Extreme quality, ½ pound (225 g) Litz OFC copper air core coil woofer inductor
- PP foil capacitor with sterling silver leads in the tweeter
- Revolutionary absence of any resistor in the KIN crossover circuit
- Easy impedance 6 ohm load (8 ohm in woofer range)
- Bi-wire gold-plated terminals
- High-torque TRIBE angled wall clamps for an even structural tension
Specifications
Design | Full back-boxed, high-performance loudspeaker |
Frequency Response: | 65 Hz – 40 kHz ± 3 dB |
Recommended Power: | 20 – 110 W |
Woofer: | Twin 4″ / 10.16 cm high-performance die-cast aluminum framed woofers, 5″ passive drivers |
Tweeter: | 3/4″ / 1.9 cm soft dome with high excursion capabilities |
Impedance: | 6 ohms |
Sensitivity dB @1W-1M | 92 dB |
Dimensions (w x h x d): | 14.09″ x 14.09″ x 4.72″ / 358 x 358 x 120 mm |
Cutout | 13.38 x 13.38 / 340 x 340mm |
grille type | magnetic, paintable, virtually bezel-less white metal (grills may be painted to match your decor) |
accessories/options | Pre-construction brackets |
Speaker Terminals: | Bi-Wire 5 way gold plated |
Weight | 15.05lb / 6.82kg |
Customized Drivers
Bespoke Acoustic Engineering
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 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
With Point-to-Point Connections
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.
Integrated Back Box
Identical open back architectural speakers can actually differ in performance because of the varying size and materials within the cavity where they’re installed. They also transfer significant energy to adjacent rooms. Speakers with integrated back boxes maintain consistent performance anywhere they’re installed, and greatly reduces the amount of sound that bleeds to the adjacent rooms.
Connectors
Gold Plated Bi-wire/Bi-Amp
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.