Koss Totem Mani-2 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 54)

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he ﬁrst time we ever met Vince

Bruzzese he was showing a

prototype of a very small speaker

with what seemed at the time

like an absurdly high price. We're glad to

say that we encouraged him to persevere,

and the rest is history: the tiny “overpriced”

speaker turned out to be the Totem Model

One, arguably the world’s most successful

mini-monitor.

We talked with him a lot after that,

and ran a Rendezvous feature with him

in UHF No. 43. We thought it was about

time we talked with him again.

UHF: When you look back to the beginning,

when the Totem line was just one model, does

it seem an awfully long time ago?

Bruzzese: Actually not, because we still

live with that same model, but it has been

a wonderful journey, and it still is. The

joy we got out of the Model One, we get

from most of our other models.

UHF: Has the marketing side gotten easier

as the line has grown? It must have been

difﬁcult when you had just one model.

Bruzzese: Without a doubt. It was dif-

ﬁcult to penetrate the market back in the

late 1980’s. Back then the big speaker

ruled, and a small speaker was out of the

ordinary. Of course the addition of other

models made the line extremely accept-

able to the mainstream market.

UHF: The Mani-2 was the speaker we all

thought would be called the Model Two. Tell

us how you thought about going beyond the

Model One.

Bruzzese: Actually the Mani-2 was

brought out almost at the same time

as the Rokk and the Tott. Those two

were excellent in their own way, but the

Mani-2 was supposed to be the ﬂagship

“monitor” speaker. Back then monitors

had certain limitations, and the Mani-2

was totally different. No one else had

tried a vented box with a double woofer

inside. I wanted something that would

coalesce correctly and would have an

extremely low noise ﬂoor, with holo-

graphic imaging, keeping that same

emotional context and pace that I was

always interested in.

UHF: Though it’s not obvious from the

outside, the design of the Mani-2 is radically

different.

Bruzzese: Yes. There’s no written

theory on that type of speaker, very

few parameters you could follow. Being

largely self-taught in the engineering

of speakers, I delved into things that

had never been approached before, to

produce the ultimate monitor. And it

has survived the test of time. I think

Rendezvous

The Totem Man

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