Made in Canada
Totem Acoustic Bison Centre Speaker
Defying All Expectations
Made in Canada
Experience a stampede through a wide open vista of dynamic, natural, and extended harmonic sounds with the thunderous new Bison Series.
The Bison Centre is a centre channel speaker made entirely in Canada. It provides tremendous articulation, rhythm, and dynamics that bring lifelike vibrancy to multi-channel audio systems. Its convenient dimensions allow it to fit into just about any AV furniture. It can also be comfortably perched atop a console cabinet or table in rooms where the TV is installed on the wall.
The Bison Centre is designed to project a gigantic soundstage that balances micro nuances, truthful voicing and a commanding presence. And since it shares the same DNA as the other Bison series speakers, it also offers an immersive musical dimensionality and incredible extension.
Highlights:
- Custom engineered 5.25 inch drivers
- Custom engineered 1.3 inch tweeter
- Handmade crossovers
- Artisanal cabinet construction
- Magnetic grilles included
- Available in White Oak, Satin White, and Satin Black
Customized Drivers
Every single driver is completely unique to Totem and proprietary in design, engineered by Totem and then manufactured to the strictest standards to meet our parameters by the finest raw driver suppliers in the world. In some cases, where the technology is beyond the capabilities of suppliers or is wished to be kept secret, Totem can and will build our own drivers. Every driver exhibits phase linearity, speed, emotion, off axis natural presentation, and spatial articulation.
Handmade Crossovers
Totem crossovers don’t require many parts because of the synergy between our customized drivers, but the components are the world’s best. Our crossovers aren’t built on PCB’s because the laminated conductive tracks are weak and inconsistent. Instead they are secured to a thin piece of fiberboard or insulated polymers and components are mechanically crimped together because it simply sounds better. When we must solder, we choose WBT Silver Solder, the purest in the industry.
Artisanal Cabinet Construction
Meticulously hand crafted for peak performance that lasts decades. Lock-Miter assembly is an intricate woodworking procedure where edges physically interlock together. The resulting cabinet is up to 5 times stronger than conventional V Groove cabinets. Internal and external veneering resists warping, structurally fortifies, and ensures consistent peak performance. Industry unique Borosilicate damping manages dissipation, keeps the cabinet musically alive, and never deteriorates. Popular materials like poly fillers eventually decay, dramatically affecting the performance. Variable Density Fiberboard is denser at the extremities than the interior to reduce repetitive nodes and resonances.
Connectors
Two sets of high conductivity gold plated connectors efficiently capture the incoming signal for superior speaker performance and allow traditional, bi-wire, or even bi-amplification options. They accommodate a variety of connection options such as bare wire, banana plugs, and spades.
Specifications
- Design Ported 2-Way Centre Speaker
- Tweeter 1.3 in / 33 mm Laser Etched Textile Soft Dome
- Woofer 5.25 in / 133.35 mm Copper Clad Voice Coil
- Impedance 6 Ohm
- Sensitivity 90 db
- Frequency Response 42 Hz to 21 kHz ± 3 dB
- Recommended Power 30-150W
- Crossover Frequency 2.5 kHz (first order)
- Speaker Terminals 4 way Bi-Wire-able
- Speaker Width: 575mm / 22.638in
- Speaker Height: 160mm / 6.3in
- Speaker Depth: 230mm / 9.055in or 240mm / 9.448 in with grill installed
