![]() ![]() Once your drink reaches the desired temperature, heaters in the mug will be triggered by precision sensors as needed to regulate it for up to 80 or 90 minutes. Just choose your preferred temperature in the Ember app once you’ve paired it with your phone. With just the press of a button, it can warm your beverage to anywhere from 120 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. In toto this speaker is no mastering tool but a pleasure machine at the highest level.The Ember mug is powered by advanced dual lithium-ion batteries.The music decorrelates very well from the boxed as apparent sound sources and arises in-room just so. The spatial presentation favors the live perspective over sterile sorting precision.It all integrates in the service of realistic music making. What's on tap here is grande wide-screen full-color cinema without any grandiose self references. Resolution, detail tracking, microdynamics and saturated timbres are clear strengths.The treble is quite fresh but sidesteps all aggression.This slightly lean center is well matched to the very quick dynamic core traits. The midband is arguably restrained a bit but I didn't come across any music track where this became a demerit.This mid/woofer is capable of truly extreme excursions. This extents to well above room level SPL without audible distortion. The bass is slightly round but relative to the small enclosure astonishingly deep and impressively articulate.If your foot doesn't tap, you're in Elysium already. What this speaker dishes out on PraT is fantastic. A highly dynamic lively presentation which simultaneously remains at easy and relaxed.Psych profile of the Totem Element Ember : One might slightly criticize the by comparison slightly lean midband but not only doesn't it disturb, it occasionally prettifies the tunes a bit. They impress with authority well beyond their enclosure size due to special talents in the frequency extremes which are spiced up with high standards of rhythm and timing and very realistic tone colors. I view Totem's Element Ember as really really good speakers. I simply came down hard on the Totem side which I thought far more musical.Ĭonclusion. And I can see how certain listeners might prefer the more sober ultra-exacting Thiel. Granted, the SCS4 sells for less than half. In short, the Thiel conveyed musical data, the Totem conveyed music. And I somehow knew the meaning of each beat, its role in the piece and for the session and drummer. I 'saw' the import of the bass drum in Jazz and how deeply engrained it is in its rhythms. I was made to feel how the drum's low pitch is an archaic sound which ages ago had already moved humans into trance and ecstasy. The Totem showed me a sizeable drum skin triggered with a soft mallet. With the Thiel I was informed that at about 4 meters and about 1.5 meters right off center a bass drum was hit. The aforementioned DeeDee Bridgewater album has the "Slow Boat to China" track commence with sparse beats on the bass drum. To make this point of distinction clear, I'll describe my personal reaction to a specific cut. Tone colors over the Totem were noticeably more saturated which likely pools back into their tonal balance. On soundstage specificity the American speaker played it more precise than the Canadian but in turn also felt overall more sober and a bit more distanced. So let's pull in Thiel's SCS4 which for fairaudio is a constant workhorse reference in the compact monitor category. ![]() The Element Ember now hit a similar note but added decisively higher micro dynamics and resolution. The Italian's sound remained pleasant but not boring too. Its mid/woofer also runs wide open and the complex enclosure likewise spreads out resonances. I then remembered Diapason's Karis as having struck me similar in both sound and general concept. This speed and immediacy of the vocal range reminded me of quality widebanders without the latter's often elevated presence region. ![]() The Ember retained that intensity but didn't go on my nerves. Here I'm thinking of Etta Cameron's "Careless Love" from Etta for example whose hyper-present insistence over the Geithains simply gets too much for me. Voices retained clear dynamic modulation with plenty of detail and in many instances felt more real than over my references. Tonally then the Ember's midrange felt gently leaner than the Geithain's and a subtle depression in this range is perfectly valid voicing for greater ease. This review page is supported in part by the sponsors whose ad banners are displayed below
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