Conclusion
$649 is a lot to spend on a cable, but the moment you hear Totem you realise where the money goes.
Its’ ability to infuse every IEM with a greater sense of precision, manifested in raw technical performance is substantial by the standards of any cable on the market.
This will especially benefit earphones that are naturally warm & in need of sharpening or tightening up, but every IEM I’ve paired Totem with has demonstrated improvements.
Factor in the superb ergonomics by flagship cable standards, swappable 2pin/MMCX and 2.5/3.5/4.4mm connectors, and tuning plugs for tweakable tonality and you have a compelling package.
I’ve waited years to hear this cable despite owning the Totem Interconnect & Totem USB-C cable for some time, and it has absolutely lived up to the hype of other reviewers and my own expectations.
Quite simply this is the best cable Penon makes and the easiest to recommend.
Anybody who would pay thousands of dollars for a pair of interconnect audio cables of any type has more money than sense!!!!! A cable is not an active device so it will have no more action on an audio signal than a paperclip unless it is grossly deteriorated or you are trying to run really long runs with high impedance equipment. Wearing comfort is the only measurable property and that is totally subjective, People like you keep these modern “Snake Oil Salesmen” in business.
Total BS.
I made three RCA connector interconnect cables using RG6 coax one 4 feet long, one 6 feet long and one 8 feet long using 100% Belfoil shield. The 8 foot cable sounder more full with deeper bass than the 4 foot cable even though they all showed a good frequency sweep to over 500 Mhz.