Totem Acoustic Metal V2 floorstanding loudspeaker

REVIEW
Buzz Hughes
Jun 28, 2022

The Metals have the goods, they are the total package. The Metals have the top end and high mids covered like a glove (most Totem’s do), and the definition at the far edges of the soundstage in the mid-range has the power to make your music transcendent. If you can spend £17,000 on a pair of speakers maybe you are also the person who could also spend £25,000 or even £30,000? Why stop at this bus stop? My answer is I found the Totem Metal V2s to be able to take me past the very real and discernible threshold between reproducing music and having living breathing music in your house. Why do you need to spend more, if you are already through the door?

So is it my duty that I have to pick a weakness? With the Metals I don’t hear one, it’s pure pleasure from start to finish. I think I recall having heard more defined and ‘raw-er’ bass from other similarly priced speakers. However, long term after the new wears off I liked the Metal’s more subtle orientation to the bottom end of my music. As a package, the Metals have just enough to give me everything I needed on the low end, and the mids and tops were unmatched in my experience to date. This is coming from a guy who was just a short while ago still trying to minimise the difference between his Fire V2s and the Metals. I can’t do it with a straight face, the Metals are that much better, they are worth the price upgrade, and dammit all if I had the coin to buy these review samples I would be confident this is the best hi-fi purchase this reviewer has yet made.