Totem Acoustic Kin Play Soundbar loudspeaker

Every clan has someone who tells the story, and that voice bends to what is being told: quieter as the night draws on, larger when a battle arrives. Totem built its soundbar the way it builds loudspeakers, and gave the storyteller under the screen six moods.

Four 4-inch Natural Hybrid woofers and a customised 1-inch metal-alloy dome across 1.2 metres of cabinet, 150 watts of amplification, and 17 kilos that tell you where the money went. HDMI ARC puts it under the television's own remote and does the whole job on one cable; optical, RCA and a 3.5 mm input take everything else, and Bluetooth 5.0 with aptX handles the phone. The six equalisation settings are called Pure, Concert, Movies, TV, Night and Games — because a soundbar is asked to do six different jobs. Under a 55-inch screen or larger, on the wall or on the furniture. Add a Kin Sub 10 through the subwoofer output when films start asking for it.

A storyteller with six voices is still the same storyteller. You simply hear more clearly where you are sitting.

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