Totem Acoustic Forest Signatures


I am putting together a new 2 channel system! I am looking for a new pair of speakers and my budget is around $7000. This thread has to deal only with the Totem Acoustic Forest Signatures!!!!!!  I have always been a fan of Totem Acoustic and love the Totem sound.  I have owned almost all their speakers except for the element series and the Forest Signatures. I have been trying to find reviews on the signatures but can't find anything useful so I am turning to the Audiogon crowd.

Has anyone demoed these or does anyone currently own a pair or owned a pair in the past that can give some useful insight? I don't listen to my music at high volumes and my music mainly consists of R&B from the 50's till now.

The speakers will be hooked up to the following - Hegel H360 integrated 
- Hegel Cdp4a CD player 
- Audioquest Wild Blue Yonder interconnects
- Audioquest Wild Wood speaker cable
- Audioquest Wel Signature power cables
- Shunyata MPC12A power conditioner but looking to upgrade to their new Denali series.
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Think MOON by SIMAUDIO . I had FORESTS in a prior system so I know their strengths and their warts very well. They are hungry power hogs that need a lot of current (amps) to get them to open up fully. WPC are meaningless… it’s necessary grunt provided  by amps. I bi-amped mine in mine to get to their max audio performance.

TOTEM and SIMAUDIO are both resident in Montreal, and use each others units to voice their products. TOTEM frequently uses them at the audio shows,

TOTEM even had their now discontinued AMBER model (pic above) about a decade+ ago, which was their own hefty beast integrated amp, that the ideal TOTEM drive partner in its time. It was a joint venture by TOTEM with SIMAUDIO, based on the SIMAUDIO platform, that was modded to TOTEM specs

Highly recommended.

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I still have the Signatures in my system and I don’t feel the need to upgrade.  I'm currently driving them with a Naim Audio Supernait 3.  

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I've been driving them to great effect with several high current SS amps (not sim, although I am aware of the relationship between the two companies), but I've got an opportunity to try them with a Mc275 (which I've heard more than once is a superb coupling, despite it being a medium powered tube amp).

 

We shall see....

 

Fun, fun, fun!