MoFi SourcePoint 10 - Review & Measurements by Erin

[VintageFlanker]

Text review:

MoFi SourcePoint 10 Speaker Review

MoFi SourcePoint 10

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...with a short update:

MoFi SourcePoint 10 - Review & Measurements by Erin

Have to disagree. Those are way better looking than I expected. I realize there's a lot of competition at that price point, but those off axis(what they were designed for) spins look really great to my eye. There are a bunch of really high Q resonances, but I question the audibility of those...

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[dfuller]

Wow, messy midrange resonances. Least the directivity and overall linearity is good.

 

[Matias]

Somewhat bright in room response but not bad at all.

For the price I would much rather get 2 x Neumann KH 150.

 

[fredoamigo]

In any case, it's nowhere near as catastrophic as some people predicted when it first came out.
for my part, and once again, considering the design, bravo!

 

[YSC]

actually much better than expected! I would personally EQ out the anechoic upward treble tilt though

 

[Timcognito]

Once again Mr. Jones shows he knows his stuff. Don't like the form factor or the price. Not for me.

 

[Purité Audio]

I’lll see your Erin and raise you a,

MoFi SourcePoint 10 Loudspeaker Lab Report

Lab Report In addition to all else that a two-way, coincident driver array might offer, MoFi's Andrew Jones has also set his sights on another engineering goal – good sensitivity and bass extension combined with a benign amplifier load. The SourcePoint 10 meets its 8ohm nominal/6.4ohm minimum...

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Keith

 

[cavedriver]

I’lll see your Erin and raise you a,

MoFi SourcePoint 10 Loudspeaker Lab Report

Lab Report In addition to all else that a two-way, coincident driver array might offer, MoFi's Andrew Jones has also set his sights on another engineering goal – good sensitivity and bass extension combined with a benign amplifier load. The SourcePoint 10 meets its 8ohm nominal/6.4ohm minimum...

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Keith

I don't see where that's a raise. Barely any info in that report and missing several things the Klippel gives us.

 

[Purité Audio]

You are right I should have folded.
Keith

 

[abdo123]

 

[MattHooper]

In any case, it's nowhere near as catastrophic as some people predicted when it first came out.
for my part, and once again, considering the design, bravo!

Gee...You don't really think some here are that cynical do you?

Looks like, aimed as intended, the speaker is pretty neutral, still a slight rise but hardly character in the B&W realm, and the boys with Klippel toys did indeed get to measure the speaker (while being in contact with Andrew Jones about it).

I might add, that it seems to me that, while there will be some possible differences in rooms/set ups, my listening impressions seemed to track pretty well with the measured behavior of the speakers, especially regarding changes in listening more on axis vs off axis, different distances etc. (E.g. brighter on axis, more mellow slightly off axis, though still detectable slight rise in highs).

 

[tuga]

Somewhat bright in room response but not bad at all.

At 10º. Just toe it out a bit. The beauty of coaxials.

 

[Matias]

At 10º. Just toe it out a bit. The beauty of coaxials.

I own a coax for 10+ years, Thiel CS3.7, and they have none of that treble rise and needing less toe in to compensate. In fact it has tons of 4-6 kHz ambience thrown into the room, but that is off topic.

Thiel CS3.7 loudspeaker Measurements

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[tuga]

I own a coax for 10+ years, Thiel CS3.7, and they have none of that treble rise and needing less toe in to compensate. In fact it has tons of 4-6 kHz ambience thrown into the room, but that is off topic.

Thiel CS3.7 loudspeaker Measurements

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The MoFi's tweeter has wider directivity, which is probably why the in-room response it nearly flat:

MoFi SourcePoint 10, lateral response family

Thiel CS3.7, lateral response family

 

[Ciobi69]

Well I'd take the r3 if I had to chose , or if you like coaxial a genelec 83xx series / kef r3

 

[thewas]

Text review is now also online

MoFi SourcePoint 10 Speaker Review

MoFi SourcePoint 10

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[cavedriver]

Well I'd take the r3 if I had to chose , or if you like coaxial a genelec 83xx series / kef r3

One thing I don't get with KEF is why their tower's are so short. The overall dimension seems fine, ~42" tall for the R7 and ~51" for the R11, but the tweeter axis is only about 31" above the floor. When I slouch in a typical listening chair I can just barely get my ears down to tweeter level. Of course this is way OT since we're talking about a KEF bookshelf compared to a Mofi bookshelf. Just venting

 

[tuga]

One thing I don't get with KEF is why their tower's are so short. The overall dimension seems fine, ~42" tall for the R7 and ~51" for the R11, but the tweeter axis is only about 31" above the floor. When I slouch in a typical listening chair I can just barely get my ears down to tweeter level. Of course this is way OT since we're talking about a KEF bookshelf compared to a Mofi bookshelf. Just venting

Aren't they designed to be listened to slightly off axis?

 

[Daverz]

The horizontal globe plot makes the 10 degree axis pretty obvious:

 

[richard12511]

Wow, messy midrange resonances. Least the directivity and overall linearity is good.

Have to disagree. Those are way better looking than I expected. I realize there's a lot of competition at that price point, but those off axis(what they were designed for) spins look really great to my eye. There are a bunch of really high Q resonances, but I question the audibility of those, and the overall shape at 10-15% looks near SOTA for passive solutions at that price point and size.

Which passive speakers of similar size/price do you see as noticeably better than this? R3 is one I can maybe think of(note Erin's review of that seems is resolution), but that's the only one I can think of, and I would guess it can't play as loud.