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Andrew Jones MoFi Speakers

MattHooper said:
Ok...now I've gotta mention to you the kid story with my HT gear.

Years ago we had a gathering of families...I think it was a birthday party. Many of the kids were quite young and my home theater/2 channel listening room was full of equipment, so I'd closed the curtains to the room.

At one point I was walking by the room, noticed the curtains had been opened, and there was a young boy...maybe 6 or so...standing in front of my projection screen reaching out to touch it. It's very hard to deal with any damage/smudges on a quality projection screen! So I gently asked him not to touch the screen please, and...how about coming back and joining everyone else? He looked at me with a grin and reached out to touch the screen again. As he did so he was leaning in to my expensive (and at the time almost impossible to find) center channel speaker below the screen, by his knees. I quickly asked him to please be careful of that speaker and...hey..why don't you come out of the room? He looked down at the speaker in front of him, looked at me again with a grin, then pulled back his leg to kick the speaker - foot poised in the air, aimed at the front of the drivers. "No, no...please don't...that's very expensive...please, just move away from the speaker and come back to the kitchen..."

He jerked his leg several times toward the center channel"fake" kicking the speaker, almost punching in the drivers, while smiling at me, enjoying torturing me. What could I do? Wasn't my kid. In fact I didn't even know which family he belonged to. And if I took the time to leave him there and find his parent to get him, who knew what he'd do? So I was stuck for a while with the speaker 'held hostage' me trying to talk him out of the room. After a while he got tired of the game and left the room.

Little bundles of joy aren't they?

I don't imagine that scene would have lasted as long if this happened in your place, Sal ;-)
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My daughter is 13 now, she knows not to "touch the speakers", she told me last week how when she was "little" she would always "touch the speakers" and that she would 'tap the tweeters with her finger nail' because she 'liked it'. Some kind of barbed wire fencing is probably the only way to truly protect them. Even I get the urge to touch tweeters for some reason ha.
 
Pablo27 said:
My daughter is 13 now, she knows not to "touch the speakers", she told me last week how when she was "little" she would always "touch the speakers" and that she would 'tap the tweeters with her finger nail' because she 'liked it'. Some kind of barbed wire fencing is probably the only way to truly protect them. Even I get the urge to touch tweeters for some reason ha.
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There used to be these things callled speaker grills to protect the drivers. ;)
 
Sal1950 said:
There used to be these things callled speaker grills to protect the drivers. ;)
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You know you're right...I vaguely remember something like that...
 
Sal1950 said:
There used to be these things callled speaker grills to protect the drivers. ;)
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Back in the day...I was reviewing some giant, expensive Thiel CS6 speakers. My son was something like 1 1/2 years old (or whatever age they end up becoming toddlers). I was super careful to keep the grills on at all times to keep the drivers from his prying fingers or any damage. I'd listened to them that way for weeks and one Sunday morning decided "Ok, I want to hear them with the grills off...just for a bit." So I took one grill off the speaker and was placing it somewhere out of the way when I heard the sound of my son running all the way from the back of the house to the front listening room. I turned my head just in time to see him running full speed in to the room, trip and stumble toward the speaker...Me: "No!" And...bash! His elbow went right in and crushed the exposed woofer.

I'd literally had the grill off for all of 30 seconds and like a heat seeking missile he found the exposed drivers for the kill shot.

Kids.
 
MattHooper said:
I'd literally had the grill off for all of 30 seconds and like a heat seeking missile he found the exposed drivers for the kill shot.
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Kids? Heck I keep mine on knowing that otherwise, sooner or later, I'll find a way to put the handle of the vacuum or
whatever thru a driver. As the saying goes, schitt happens. LOL
 
My speakers come with fairly industrial metal guards, they have deflected several errant bouncy dog balls. I couldn’t leave my speakers un guarded For any length of time.

As for the new Andrew Jones MoFi speakers, I wish them well, it would be very interesting to see how well AJ's words and explanations translate into results in the lab. It would make a welcome change for a HiFi speaker to actually live up to the hype.
 
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Saw Sourcepoint 10 measurements in the latest Stereophile.

Shockingly good directivity out to 60° especially for the driver diameters. For me the most interesting AJ design since his TAD stuff.
 
Well, i must say it measures fantastic. I love the off axis.
 
The measurements look good! You might want a little eq for the highs but nothing terrible!

The dispersion looks excellent!
 
DSJR said:
Another one for old men with some hearing loss methinks (maybe the target audience?). Takes one to know one by the way... ;)
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There are now a number of "SourcePoint 10 Speaker" videos on youtube "demonstrating" the sound. What I find interesting is that in pretty much every one I can hear that lower treble peak, giving vocal sibilance a slightly harder "pop out a bit from the voice" edge. I find it exaggerated in the recordings played back on my imac - even that aspect of the speakers sounded smoother in person, but it was there.

On the other hand on one demo - Jay's Audio Lab - the comments are filled with people literally evaluating the speakers over youtube! They are making pronouncements on the quality of those speakers as if listening through youtube were sufficient to do so. Mindboggling.

(BTW, I'm at the point I want to kill myself if I have to listen to any more audiophile-demo music, the inevitable close-mic'd vocal track with the singer at dirge-like pace with sparse accompaniment. I'm looking at you Leonard Cohen and others!)
 
Why do the Stereophile measurements for off-axis response only go out to +/- 60 degrees horizontally, instead of the usual +/- 90 degrees?
 
Beave said:
Why do the Stereophile measurements for off-axis response only go out to +/- 60 degrees horizontally, instead of the usual +/- 90 degrees?
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I imagine because the off-axis curves are individually taken manually. Also, realistically, most dispersion problems like a directivity mismatch in the forward radiating sound would be visible within the 120° slice measured.
 
MattHooper said:
(BTW, I'm at the point I want to kill myself if I have to listen to any more audiophile-demo music, the inevitable close-mic'd vocal track with the singer at dirge-like pace with sparse accompaniment. I'm looking at you Leonard Cohen and others!)
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What, you mean you don't love listening to Rebecca Pidgeon's Spanish Harlem?? But it's the greatest audiophile testing track ever recorded!
 
cavedriver said:
What, you mean you don't love listening to Rebecca Pidgeon's Spanish Harlem?? But it's the greatest audiophile testing track ever recorded!
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OMG...that track. THAT track!

Never again.

(I couldn't believe when I auditioned some speakers a couple years ago that the dealer was still putting that track on).

BTW, I'm almost proud of the fact that I have managed to avoid hearing the Cowboy Junkie's Trinity Sessions. I hope I can make it to the grave without doing so.

I haven't manage to avoid Patricia Barber, Sarah K, Diana Krall....
 
MattHooper said:
OMG...that track. THAT track!

Never again.

(I couldn't believe when I auditioned some speakers a couple years ago that the dealer was still putting that track on).

BTW, I'm almost proud of the fact that I have managed to avoid hearing the Cowboy Junkie's Trinity Sessions. I hope I can make it to the grave without doing so.

I haven't manage to avoid Patricia Barber, Sarah K, Diana Krall....
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Trinity Session is actually good music. I owned it long before I knew it was audiophile pablum and still enjoy it today. Pretty amazing that it was recorded on an ADAT in 1 day at a cost of $250.
 
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