How does it compare to the leonidas? From your review what other cables from other companies within the same price bracket have you tried?

Haven't tried the Leonidas but I own and reviewed just about every type of material used in any level of cable be it UPOCC, Gold plated crystal copper, Pure silver, palladium and even graphene, I have never heard a cable that has the best parts of all these types of materials. It stands clearly above everything I have used and heard. It isn't a slight upgrade either. I think more owners will chime in as I know a few headfiers that will be getting the Totems. Hopefully will do reviews for them.

Great review DS! Stay nuts about cables and get penon to make some cost reasonable pigtails like you suggest!!!

They are considering doing that. I will let you know if they end up making some adapters.

Stay on them my friend! This technology needs to be available at a more affordable price!

Great review, thanks! Did they send you the mmcx and the 2-pin? That's awesome! Could you, by any chance, briefly compare MEST to OG Solaris? I'm curious about getting a custom MEST to deal with fit issues I've had with OG Solaris. Thank you!

I have a bunch of adapters I use since I do cable reviews it makes sense to have some adapters on hand. I wished I had a 2 pin version of the Totems. Might have to order one. Both the Mest and the Solaris has some similarities in expansive stage but Mest clearly is a bit more treble focused vs Solaris. Mest has more mid bass impact and both are similar in bass extension. I would give the mids a leg up on the Solaris but Mest arent too far behind in that aspect. Has more upper mids vs Solaris so female vocals are better there. I would give a slight edge in technicalities to the MEST but give the musical edge to the Solaris. Totems here make both sound crazy higher end. Lol.

Thanks! It's been incredibly difficult to find a direct comparison of OG Solaris to MEST, and it's hard to drag myself to MusicTeck to audition the MEST during COVID. I think I'll try to have some custom tips made for Solaris, and if I'm still having issues then order the custom MEST. Thanks again.

So actually I wanted to buy that solaris 2020 as my new iem to collection. But after hearing the leo plus of penon, and understanding what diffenrce Can a great cable make with great iem I decide to take the money and buy the totem, I mean instead of buying one iem for like 1500usd it's like upgrading my 6 (2 pin) iem for 800usd

BTW @Dsnuts have you tried frozen by oc studio?

Sorry never tried that one.

If u found the stock cable doesnt up to the totem levels, the it just mean that the stock cable limiting the IEM, it means bottlenecking the IEM performance, just like how bad source did.

I actually got my totem today and it's so good. It makes the whole sound amazing, every iem I try

I also ordered the Golden armour, it should also be very good I guess

So something interesting. I had all my Iems with 2 pin and then bought the Solaris and all of a sudden all my cables don't work cause all 2pin so I made a gamble and bought from Penon the adapter from 2 pin to mmcx, and today when I listened to the totem with adapter to solaris 2020 it sound amazing. I think I lose about 5%-7% quality due to adapter

Great review. A/Bing the same IEM, one with a pure copper cable, one with a pure silver clearly shows how different the cables sound. So to see such a great cable, that I will never hear, gives me joy for others. In Buddhism, 'Muditā' (Sanskrit), 'Joy for others', is one of the meanings of life. Most 'Quantities' can be measured, most 'Qualities' cannot.

I was a cable skeptic but took a plunge on the dark side with Totem and I have to admit that it changed my opinion about cables. Compared to a descent quality pure silver cable, I can see why it is hyped. The bass is tighter and the treble extension is appreciable.
One con is that it’s quite stiff and my pinna starts to hurt after an hour or so. I hope that it gets soft soon