Totem Hawk Floorstanding Speakers in Black Ash

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General:

Offered in a Black Ash Veneer, working perfectly with just a few light scuffs not visible from a distance.

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Soaring to high-vibrational heights, the Totem Hawk exemplifies total involvement with the senses. Truly full range, extremely compact and aesthetically balanced, the Hawk has incredible attributes and strengths that will bring you to the realm of sonic nirvana. The Hawk’s detailed voicing, harmonic nuances and timbre precision will simply move your soul to the core.

With honesty and loyalty, the Hawk’s unique drivers deliver magic and power. Its exquisite cabinetry is designed to seamlessly project sonic vitality. Its self-effacing holography and pure dimensional imaging produce a spatial experience that will lift and envelope you. The Totem Hawk is a soul mover of the highest caliber.

Design Highlights
• Elegant design and aesthetic compactness
• Specially modified proprietary drivers
• Designed for high-end extreme performance
• Absolute surreal holographic imaging
• Available in exotic veneer or design multicoated polyester finishes

Technical Features
• Great bass extension and phase correctness
• Monocoque cross-braced cabinet with double-sided wood veneer
• Ultra-expensive borosilicate damping
• Exclusive, hard-wired crossover
• Silvered OFC wiring
• Claw: for advanced decoupling from floor
• Bi-wireable gold-plated WBT terminals

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.

Artisanal Cabinet Construction
Master Craftsman Woodwork
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.

Connectors
WBT Bi-Wire / Bi-Amp
Premium WBT connectors are the preferred choice by all audiophiles. WBT connectors lets the signal through without interfering or affecting it. Superior connectors like WBT connectors will prevent any signal loss and get the most out of the entire system.

Sound Isolation
Claw
Machined from solid aluminum, the unique geometric shape breaks up surface standing waves and controls surface resonance as it acoustically decouples the speaker. Can be used with or without ball bearing, depending on surface. It provides improved bass response and imaging.

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Specifications
Frequency Response:
< 32 Hz – 21 kHz ± 3 dB (with proper room positioning)

Recommended Power:
30 – 120 W

Woofer: 5.5″ / 14 cm patented magnet system, dynamic linear suspension, non resonant cone, dustcap

Tweeter:
1″ / 2.54 cm alloy dome, low resonance chambered unit, flexible suspension

Impedance:
6 ohms

Sensitivity:
88 dB

Dimensions (w x h x d):
6.8″ x 34.3″ x 9.6″ / 17.27 x 87.37 x 24.38cm

Placement from rear wall:
1′ – 6′ / 30.48 – 182.88 cm

Placement distance apart:
3′ – 8′ / 91.44 – 243.84 cm

Break-in Time:
60 – 80 hours

Crossover Frequency:
2.5 kHz, 1st order compensated

Speaker Terminals:
Bi-wireable, Gold WBT connectors

Weight:
33.1lb / 15.06kg

Testing Process:

Our speaker evaluation process starts with a visual inspection of all drivers. We are looking for damaged or deteriorating woofer surrounds, dented tweeter domes, and cone damage. We also inspect the speaker connection points for loose or broken connectors.

After the initial visual inspection we connect the speakers to a reference amplifier with our preferred test tracks. With the speakers placed with proper distance we listen to each driver to make sure that they are producing the intended frequencies with no signs of distortion or rattle. During listening tests with test tracks we check for proper stereo imaging and bass response at various listening levels. If there are any audible signs of issues, the speakers are taken to the bench where we perform a frequency sweep to isolate the issue so that it can be resolved by component repair or replacement.