I really enjoy the newer V2 Torrent driver Totem products such as the Tribe V (five) wallspeaker, Fire V2 bookshelf, and Metal V2 floorstander. I find them to still have some of that Totem color/character (which I personally enjoy), but the Torrent/Element series products are closer to what I would call more neutral than the classic line. They are made to be different, and the marketing materials even mentions that these won't sound like what you expect from a Totem. In my book it is a pleasant balance. Might have something to do with having no woofer crossover and just a single cap on the tweeter. Granted I'm a little biased as I work for a integrator that carries Totem, and I've personally meant their founder/CEO/chief engineer Vince, and just really like the guy. However we sell a ton of well known brands like Monitor, B&W, Klipsch, Goldenear, Paradigm, Wisdom Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, PSB Focal, etc... and my customers most often leave with a Totem product after demoing everything else. Out of everything we carry I prefer Totem with just two exceptions depending on application and that would be Sonus Faber or Wisdom Audio. Sonus if you want a more intimate sound, with arguably better separation, and a breathtaking cabinet design, but less width and ease of setup as Totems maintain a nice off axis sound and are designed to be pointed straight out from the wall, no toe in or fiddling around necessary. Wisdom if the use leans more toward theater as being mostly planar the speed is just incredible for catching every audible detail in a movie like hearing every sound the gun makes for every shot in something like John Wick. That said if not Wisdom for theater then right back to Totem, especially their Tribe line as again that Torrent driver might be the fastest dynamic with the strongest bass to driver size ratio around. I appreciate that his own line of cables and interconnects for example while a little "audiophile" are arguably reasonably priced and are very well made at least in world of total snake oil at absurd prices. He also told me that he thinks his new Fire V2 bookshelves would be accurate enough to monitor on if need be which is quite the claim, but I do think they could work. Measurements or not he deserves credit for the Torrent driver being the most robust dynamic driver design I've ever seen outside of things that are astronomically priced, and the larger 7 inch Torrent is said to not experience breakup until 17 hz which sounds bonkers but I believe it, you can hear the control it has, and despite that he still rated the speaker at what I think is a conservative 26 hz. I'll probably be purchasing a pair of the Fire V2 next year, I'd happily lend them to you Amir. To be honest I still do not fully understand some of the principles of speaker measurement, a good rating means an accurate speaker right? I do not think Totem is going for total accuracy, I do think they'd ace the off axis response portion though. You can be moving around the room and notice very little change, which makes them awesome for enjoying with multiple people as one person won't hog the "sweet spot," that along with imaging might be their greatest strength as a whole.
