Totem Acoustics is a Canadian hi-fi company that makes a wide range of loudspeakers typically out of most people’s price brackets. For example, its most affordable bookshelf speakers to date have been the Totem Loon Monitors ($1,299/pair) and Bison Monitors ($2,250/pair), but the luxury audio brand makes loudspeakers that go well beyond that.
However, the company is going in a different direction with its newest bookshelf speakers. The KIN One cost $599/pair, making them Totem Acoustics’s most affordable bookshelf yet. And because they borrow technologies for its way more expensive speakers, they promise to deliver better sound than other similarly-priced bookshelf speakers.
Totem Acoustics KIN One
Totem AcousticsTotem Acoustics KIN One
Specs
| Speaker | Two-way passive bookshelf speakers |
| Recommended Power | 20 — 100 watts |
| Frequency Response | 65 Hz — 22 kHz (± 3 dB) |
High-performing, entry-level
Totem Acoustics is a high-end audio company that has been around for almost forty years, but for the last decade it’s also been releasing more affordable speakers — most of which are powered speakers — under the “KIN” brand.
The KIN One are interesting because they’re the first passive bookshelf speakers that have been released under the KIN brand, but they also leverage technologies from Totem Acoustics’s significantly higher-end bookshelf speakers.
