Issue no. 76, Nuts&bolts, Features – Koss Totem Mani-2 User Manual
Page 3: Cinema, The listening room, Rendezvous, Software, Departments
NUTS&BOLTS
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by Paul Bergman
What it means, how impedance affects
performance, and how you can measure your
speakers’ own impedance
FEATURES
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by Gerard Rejskind
A leisurely tour of the venerable Montreal show,
now in a new venue
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by Albert Simon
Another way of seeing (and hearing!) the show
CINEMA
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Blu Ray? HD DVD? And what about the audiophile?
The Listening Room
30
It was 14 years ago that this astonishing
loudspeaker wowed us. Now the Signature version
does it again
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An inexpensive bookshelf speaker that comes with
the fabled Heil tweeter
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It looks rather like the superb (bu!t no longer made)
Castle Eden, only with both dimensions and price
tag scrunched down
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We slip on our cans and try some amp options: the
Lehmann Black Cube Linear, the CEC HD53R,
and the built-in phone amp of the Benchmark
DAC1 converter. We also listen to a new headphone
from…Goldring
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Can you get high fidelity by getting a digital signal
from your computer to your stereo system over the
air? And if so, how? Is it better than just listening to
your iPod?
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Imagine a portable charger that can adapt to all the
electronic stuff you own or ever will own
RendezVous
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We used the same title last time we talked with
Vince Bruzzese…when Totem was still a startup
Is it like looking for the Unknown Soldier?
Software
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by Reine Lessard
Gordon Lightfoot is back after a near death
experience. Reine looks at the way he changed a
corner of the musical landscape
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by Reine Lessard and Gerard Rejskind
Departments
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Cover story:
A new look at the contemporary version
of the Totem Mani-2, which we once called one of
the world’s finest speakers. In the background: a
cloudscape of the imagination.
Issue No. 76
ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine