I'm wondering... is this speaker designed this way, because all of the designer's previous work is the intellectual property of his employers, or he's contractually not allowed to replicate anything in the Debut/Navis speakers for several years after leaving ELAC?
I don't think MoFi targets pro applications.By the look of it it targets trends offering (hopefully) decent sound.putting it in the same category of some serious pro contenders).
But XO slopes are not that easy to achieve from what I read over at Audioholics long time ago when we discussed a possibility of a LS50's big brother with a bigger driver. OTOH, Tannoy makes these for a long, long time:Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but a 10" driver isn't going to be pumping back and forth in the mid to low bass as a small driver does for the same volume level and this must surely be beneficial for the tweeter matching too if dispersion can be sorted in the first place.
I know the Tannoys from the early 70's. Up to the early 80's at least, they were hideously coloured BUT VERY LOUD if that suited you. I could hear high freqwuencies easily then and the pepperpot tweeter guide was as 'ragged as a badger's backside' especially when the castings wore out... Of the current Prestige set, I've only heard the Turnberry SE's and despite the boxes ringing like wardrobes, they actually 'sounded' rather nice (I don't know the grey nextel pro models with plastic? cones and tupip guides). The giant Westminster Royal ones sound the wardrobes they look but when did that ever put people off?But XO slopes are not that easy to achieve from what I read over at Audioholics long time ago when we discussed a possibility of a LS50's big brother with a bigger driver. OTOH, Tannoy makes these for a long, long time:
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These have 15" drivers. Tannoy has all of them ranging from 10" to 15". This begs the question how high can such a driver go and/or how low can a tweeter go, right?
MoFi and their customer base may not care about pro alternatives, but 'we' do when looking at price tags.. The two markets are gradually coming together and Dynaudio have recently launched three active *wireless streaming* models in trad 'domestic' boxes with neat grilles which I thought sounded really nice, the top £8,700 model especially so. They're aiming at younger peels moving up from Sonos and similar setups, but they have analogue RCA inputs too, so a neat-ish domestic option possibly.I don't think MoFi targets pro applications.By the look of it it targets trends offering (hopefully) decent sound.
Got to say, what happened to all the male hippies from the late 60's - all free love and letting it all out - they're the peeps who would buy gear like this now I think -?
It looks to me like he's doing something he's never done before but apparently wanted to for some while, namely to put the tweeter magnet in front of but closely coupled to the woofer magnet (and possibly thereby stacking their magnetic fields as well?) From looking at KEF's LS/50 Meta design I suppose this isn't that much different other than the easier waveguide design because of the lower travel of the 10" woofer, although it could be that the magnets on the KEF are far enough apart to not interact and that may create difficulty in getting the relatively long spider of the woofer to "stay straight" as it travels. But who knows, I'm not a speaker designer and this is pure speculation.I'm wondering... is this speaker designed this way, because all of the designer's previous work is the intellectual property of his employers, or he's contractually not allowed to replicate anything in the Debut/Navis speakers for several years after leaving ELAC?
Note that the Genelec One series speakers also have baffles that curve back away from the driver after transitioning out of the waveguide zone:In all fairness, the part of the baffle that bulges, along with the driver really reminds me of the Technics point source:
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And both MoFi and Technics seem to be going for the same "no baffle induced directivity" as LS50 shape.
Read it?Whitepaper here.
haha this should be funnyJay's Audio Lab. "Mofi Sourcepoint will not make you want to sell your $10.000 speakers"
I though that you were going to say that he's terrible at expressing himself and should have hired a professional copywriter.My main criticism is
Curious, despite Amir's adoration the Genelec doesn't seem to have the widest dispersion according to their data
my statement was in the context of curved baffles and whether they made for very wide dispersion, and the point was that despite the Genelec's curved baffle the dispersion is still reasonably moderate (around 50 degrees iirc).Did I miss a post somewhere in this thread that made such a claim?