MoFi SourcePoint 8—The Hype Is Real!

The MOFI room at Audio Advice Live was probably the best two channel room. Had the new SourcePoint 10s with latest xover. Also the 10 towers were exceptional.

Bigger speaker, similar genes, no surprise.  
 

The v10s sound like the bomb especially for the price.  Big and heavy!

Interesting, and good to hear it.

With each new MoFi speaker introduction there seems to be lots of coverage, then little comment follows.  That caused me to wonder if sales have been modest?

A few months ago I bought Source Point 888s and have been increasingly pleased with them.  They are very musically satisfying and I've even received complements on how good they look in my room.

The weak point is the low quality Xover parts , those yellow Chinese beauties and $1 resistors , and connectors , I assisted in going with Jantzen inductors. And aluminum foil capacitors , path audio resistors ,night and day better from resolution 

imaging and soundstage width and dept,. 

@audioman58 I agree with you about the Xovers. The Sourcepoint series is pretty well designed in a lot of ways, and they manage to get some good sound out of them. Really smooth and full tone, not the best resolution but not bad either. Really a crowd pleaser. They do cut some corners though, probably they figure most people won't care since the sound is already nice as it is. I bet a crossover upgrade would take them to the next level though.

A follow-up, now that I've had the opportunity to tweak the positions of the speakers and calibrate DIRAC Live. Using DIRAC Live to correct only from 12-300Hz with +6.5dB Harman bass tilt.

Besides the soundstage and tonal improvements, I am witnessing a tremendous increase in system headroom. Using the same 60Hz, 30dB/Octave high-pass on both pairs of speakers for a fair comparison (SVS PC-2000 Pro subwoofer in sealed mode covers 60Hz and down, preventing potential localization that would occur at higher crossover frequencies), and playing, “Carmen Fantasy (After Bizet),” as performed by the All-Star Percussion Ensemble, one of the most dynamic tracks I’ve ever listened to, the LS50 Metas rapidly start running out of breath with average volume in the low/mid-70s dB and peak hits around 83dB. The SourcePoint 8s meanwhile happily slam out 91dB peaks with average volume around 81dB with equal, if not even greater clarity (lower distortion).

The difference is truly stunning; I did the numbers before, but there’s a huge difference between, “doing the numbers,” and then witnessing the actual results of changing out the LS50 Metas for the SourcePoint 8s. I also had some initial concerns about going backwards in terms of headroom by removing the 3000 Micro subs and moving back to a, “normal,” 2.1 setup from the three-tiered arrangement, because the 3000 Micros obviously have a huge difference in capacity over the single 8” mid/low driver on the MoFis, but, “the numbers,” indicated that in reality the 3000 Micros were just overkill and the MoFis would be more than enough, and fortunately the reality turned out to be a confirmation of them, with the added benefit of significantly improved lower-mid and upper-bass clarity. I haven’t lost any punch or slam at all in giving up the small subs for upper bass, such is the capability of these big standmounts. Listening to Flying Dragons and Leaping Tigers performed by Yim Hok-Man at reference levels is absolutely mind-blowing!

-Ed