They were the darling of the month not long ago. Seems like a lot of them getting dumped now. Maybe expectations were a little too high from all the positive press?
Mobile Fidelity - SourcePoint 10 Bookshelf impressions?
I am having trouble getting the search function to work for me on this, but I am wondering if there are any owner/operators (or anyone else with experience) of the Mobile Fidelity SourcePoint 10s who could share their thoughts and impressions of these speakers?
I am now (and probably for the forseeable future) listening in a small room and my present speakers (a pair of B&W 805 Matrixes that I have owned going on 30 years) and I are positioned in an almost eqilateral triangle with the center of the tweeters 54" apart and approximately that distance from tweeter to ears. The front of the tweeters are 34" from the rear wall. I realize that this is not an ideal acoustic environment, but it is what it is and it is and I was curious as to how the Mobile Fidelity SourcePoint 10s would work in that environment. Generally I listen to recordings of smaller presentations (jazz or folky stuff) and a lot of them feature female vocalists; however, occasionally I rock out with something.
My amplifier is a Cary V-12 (EL34 based) which is switchable between 50 wpc of triode to 100 wpc of ultralinear and I almost always run it in the triode mode. It is behind a Cary SLP-05 with a Maranzt SA10 in front of that, which is my only source.
I am curious and somewhat skeptical of the 10" concentric driver, but that is probably because I do not like new things, and that concept is new to me.
I do note that MD has a pair of open boxes for sale and it appears as if the stands would run about another $500.
Thank you and I appreciate any thoughts about this.
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Here, just get these. They’ll blow your old 805s outta the water on every level, and I think they’re returnable from this seller if I’m wrong. Best of luck. |
750 off for a openbox is not a bad deal and musicdirect has a 60 day SG return policy. If you don't like it, you can return/get your cash back. |
@deep_333 , I was thinking along those lines also.
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@kennyc , thank you for sharing your impressions. |
No, not with the Prisms but lots of experience with Pulsars, RM25s and 22s and the magic is all the same and in the crossover IMHO. I’ve compared JA speakers directly to B&W, and to me there’s no comparison — JA is superior in every way. |
Thanks, @soix , I was just now doing some searches and reading on the JA Prism. I am intrigued by what I have read. Have you bought from TMR before? Thanks again. |
. . . maybe not. One listing for them on them from TMR says they are "SOLD", but then I found another listing for them on ebay from TMR and I assume it must be current because ebay was going to let me buy them and check out . . . maybe that listing "SOLD" for sn 23 & 24 was a past sale and the buyer returned them? |