MoFi Sourcepoint V10 Master Edition

[digitalfrost]

Erin's Review is up. He likes the speaker a lot even asking "Is This the Best Speaker of 2025?"

It's not super linear (notice this is the 15° measurement):

But not bad at all.

 

[MarcT]

I've always been a sucker for big, brawny tower speakers. I kept my Legacy Audio Signature II towers for about 20 years. They had their problems, but they did have that big, open sound, as well as powerful deep male vocals from singers like Leonard Cohen.

 

[dfuller]

Erin's Review is up. He likes the speaker a lot even asking "Is This the Best Speaker of 2025?"

It's not super linear (notice this is the 15° measurement):

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But not bad at all.

Its really mostly OK in the linearity department. Minus a couple of narrow dips, this is more or less ±2dB from 40hz on up.

Plus, directivity is very good, and its level handling is excellent. 96dB/1m free field MTD is below 1% well up into the tweeter's range, there is essentially no short term compression, and HD is very low as well.

 

[aschen]

~ 20$ per lb seems like a bargain

seems very well placed to be shopped against Klipsch heritage line which sells very well

The market likes giant loud vintage styled speakers, might as well throw in good fidelity with these

 

[IngMishael]

Incredible speaker. and Erin is not lying. They sound imposing when you first hear them. And glad to see the data reinforces the effortlessness I heard from them. Won't be getting them as they're too big for my space and I already have the 888 with two subs integrated meticulously in my space

 

[kharan]

Directivity is excellent both horizontally and vertically (meaning that the minor frequency hiccups can be corrected with EQ), it goes very low, compression is non existent, same goes for distortion.

It's nearly as good as it gets.

 

[kyuu]

I am curious about the design philosophy of using the same size drivers between the coaxial woofer (which I believe is being used a midrange?) and the separate woofers that are dedicated to the bass. 8 and 10-inch woofers seem less than ideal for matching directivity between the tweeter and the mid, so why not use a smaller woofer for the coaxial?

 

[kharan]

Look at sound power DI, it's basically a straight line from 300 Hz to 15000 Hz. And in addition to that, it's a very low slope over that range, not enough to qualify as constant DI, but close. I think the results speak for themselves.

 

[PristineSound]

Erin's Review is up. He likes the speaker a lot even asking "Is This the Best Speaker of 2025?"

It's not super linear (notice this is the 15° measurement):

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But not bad at all.

He is saying, this is the second best speakers he's ever heard, after the KEF Blade 2 Meta.

I hope not everyone jump on this statement just yet, there are a lot of excellent speakers out there. I wouldn't recommend people to jump on to the hype just yet, they should fully evaluate all options out there.

 

[thewas]

I am curious about the design philosophy of using the same size drivers between the coaxial woofer (which I believe is being used a midrange?) and the separate woofers that are dedicated to the bass. 8 and 10-inch woofers seem less than ideal for matching directivity between the tweeter and the mid, so why not use a smaller woofer for the coaxial?

I guess except aesthetics this way he can also cross the coax lower to the woofers which reduces the discontinuity due to the directivity narrowing of multiple woofers vertically. This can be seem when for example comparing the Q11 Meta (I know that its in a very different price class) to it:

I tend to agree that V10 offers great performance, even more for its under 10 grands price tag.

 

[mj30250]

Looks quite impressive at a non-insane price point. There aren't many speakers that can boast that much bass extension and still maintain close to 90dB sensitivity across the range.

These would make for a very interesting comparison with my main speakers, but hauling 160lb boxes down to the basement is definitely not in the cards.

 

[TurtlePaul]

Looks quite impressive at a non-insane price point.

Yes, I like that Andrew Jones and Mofi didn't take the "opportunity" to price these as $20,000/pair.

 

[cavedriver]

I'm not sure why everyone thinks these are "underpriced". The mid and tweeter are identical to the stand mounts, which are 3k, so 5k for 2 woofers and two passive radiators in a box with the same grade of cabinetry as the SP10 sounds just about right to me. I guarantee you that if Mofi had charged 12k a pair they would get trashed by people saying "just buy the Revel's".

 

[kyuu]

I'm not sure why everyone thinks these are "underpriced".

What? Who has complained that these are too cheap?

I guarantee you that if Mofi had charged 12k a pair they would get trashed by people saying "just buy the Revel's".

I myself would still buy Revels, but these are excellent speakers no doubt. It's a matter of trade-offs.

 

[airs]

I'm not sure why everyone thinks these are "underpriced". The mid and tweeter are identical to the stand mounts, which are 3k, so 5k for 2 woofers and two passive radiators in a box with the same grade of cabinetry as the SP10 sounds just about right to me. I guarantee you that if Mofi had charged 12k a pair they would get trashed by people saying "just buy the Revel's".

Which Revels? There are trade offs, one being that none of them go nearly as deep as the V10ME.

 

[Torin Krell]

They are - in part. The front & outsides are polycarbonate

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The original Neumann KH 120 monitors had an aluminum cabinet, while the updated KH 120 II model uses MDF (medium-density fiberboard) for the main cabinet structure. The KH 120 II also incorporates a composite polycarbonate front and back

SOS Magazine - June 2023 Review by Mr Ward: "A significant difference between the KH120 II and its predecessor is that, where the enclosure of the original model was a fully die‑cast aluminium component, the new model is constructed using the same technique as the KH150, with a wooden carcass and composite polycarbonate front and rear mouldings. That might seem like a downgrade, but Neumann say that the new model’s enclosure construction technique actually results in improved resonance performance"

 

[574stereo]

I’d be interested to see a proper study into the sustainability of an MDF enclosure vs cast aluminium. At least with MDF there’s an opportunity for a carbon sink, which just doesn’t exist with aluminium…

 

[kyuu]

I’d be interested to see a proper study into the sustainability of an MDF enclosure vs cast aluminium. At least with MDF there’s an opportunity for a carbon sink, which just doesn’t exist with aluminium…

MDF is destined for the landfill. Aluminum, at least, is highly recyclable. And unlike many materials that are technically recyclable but in practice rarely are, aluminum tends to actually get recycled.

In any case, I'm not sure speaker enclosures are our biggest concern here.

 

[IngMishael]

I'm not sure why everyone thinks these are "underpriced". The mid and tweeter are identical to the stand mounts, which are 3k, so 5k for 2 woofers and two passive radiators in a box with the same grade of cabinetry as the SP10 sounds just about right to me. I guarantee you that if Mofi had charged 12k a pair they would get trashed by people saying "just buy the Revel's".

Lol what a needless and weird comment

 

[Doenerkunde]

I am curious about the design philosophy of using the same size drivers between the coaxial woofer (which I believe is being used a midrange?) and the separate woofers that are dedicated to the bass. 8 and 10-inch woofers seem less than ideal for matching directivity between the tweeter and the mid, so why not use a smaller woofer for the coaxial?

In this interview Andrew Jones explains the rationale: He designed the bookshelf Sourcepoint before the floorstanders. He never did any two way coaxials before, because the cones excursion of the midwoofer modulates the tweeters response (because the midwoofer acts as a waveguide that moves back and forth). But bigger drivers need less excursion, so he went for it.

It also matched the only two requirements by MoFi: Good bass and midcentury design.