Koss Totem Mani-2 User Manual

LOUDSPEAKERS: Does the Totem Mani-2 still rate as one of the world’s truly great speakers? We also look at an economy speaker from an old friend, Cast

FeedbackFree AdvicePlanet 2000, Reference 3a MM de Capo-i speakers, a Moon I-3 amp, an Inouye line filter, Atlas Navigator cables, GutWire power cab

FeedbackFree AdviceFree Advice Probably not, Michel, because the Veena is not substantially larger than the MM De Capo, and indeed its woofer is smal

FeedbackFree Advicethere’s the question of speaker cable and the connections between the CD/amp. Is my little system worth the really good stuff? I do

FeedbackFree AdviceFree Adviceup radio-frequency noise and feeding it into the system through the ground, and it also prevents certain components, pa

FeedbackFree AdviceFree Advicemay now, therefore, make sense. Or it may not. It’s your choice which horse to bet on. A true test would require having

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FeedbackNu ts&BoltsWhat is the impedance of your loudspeakers? Is it 8 ohms? Or 4 ohms? Perhaps you know that it is not just a single number, bu

FeedbackNu ts&BoltsRather more formidable is the higher part of the curve, specifically the imped-ance at 6 kHz. As you can see, it rises well over

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Good enough UHF uses them!This remarkable cable is from Atlas.Unlike so many cable companies, this Scottish company keeps markups reasonable.Navigator

It seems forever that the Montreal show has been at the Delta hotel, right downtown. The Delta was a great venue for hi-fi companies looking for solidl

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NUTS&BOLTS Speaker Impedance 18by Paul BergmanWhat it means, how impedance affects performance, and how you can measure your speakers’ own impeda

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FeedbackListening RoomWere we the very first ever to review a Totem loudspeaker? We think so. It was of course the original Totem, the Model One

FeedbackListening Roomthat it would be all right if we didn’t turn up the volume too high (loose translation: on New Years’ Eve keep the ine

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FeedbackListening RoomSo here’s Castle again…with a new Canadian distributor, but then again new ownership too. Castle was founded many years ago by a

FeedbackListening Roomgetting the tone wrong on a couple of the really large drums. But because the bass response is necessarily limited, the prob-lem

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FeedbackListening RoomGot an amplifier? Got head-phones? Now how do you plug the second into the first? Headphones have long been an alter-native l

FeedbackListening Roomcomplicated things. Here’s how we solved the problem. The source we selected for these tests was a combination of our CEC TL51X

FeedbackListening RoomThis headphone amp is from the same German company that makes the phono preamp o f n e a r l y the same name. It is, as

CONNOISSEUR SINGLE-ENDED AMPConnoisseur SE-2 single-ended 300B integrated tube amplifier. This is the latest version upgraded by the factory and featu

FeedbackListening Roomnatural, prov-ing once again that the sibilant artifacts we often hear are the result of problems in the playback, not t

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FeedbackCinemaAs we write this (and probably as you read this), the format battle for the next silver audio/video disc is still on. Yes, it will affe

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The first time we ever met Vince Bruzzese he was showing a prototype of a very small speaker with what seemed at the time like an absurdly high pri

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