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MoFi Sourcepoint 888 Speakers
I recently found myself with a little extra money, and after some thought and having read so many positive things, I decided to try a pair of the Sourcepoint 888's. I had actually been set on a pair of JBL HDI 3800's, but I couldn't find a set in my price range as they were closing out remaining stock, and they were all the more expensive black lacquer.
Anyway, the MoFi's seemed to fit the bill. I was looking for a gutsier mid-bass, the one failing of my current speakers (Odyssey Kismet Reference), which are actually wonderful otherwise. Still, mid-bass is responsible for some of the oomph and forward momentum in music, especially rock, so my search began. Besides the reviews having seemed to be a good match for what I was looking for, I had a certain amount of faith in Andrew Jones, knowing that he has designed some very good speakers.
I have only had them in my system for a couple of days, so of course there will be a few months of system adjustment as well as the difficult mental adjustments that take place when you (or at least I) get new speakers. That said, I really think that these are wonderful at reproducing music. They're very full bodied, but not at all slow or sluggish, and voices are a bit larger than past speakers I've owned and very intimate, with a level of detail that I haven't had before, but without any exaggerated treble.
Bass is as advertised, very good. Solid, deep and impactful. It isn't loose at all, which didn't surprise me since the woofers have rolled surrounds which are pretty stiff, and he came up with a scheme of opposing magnets at the voice coil (no, I don't really understand it) that is supposed to make the movement of the driver much more controlled.
It'll be a good while before I can really know the speakers in and out because it always takes me a while to get the comparative sound of my previous speakers out of my head, but I am really enjoying these. I'm also wondering what other member's experiences with them have been.
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It was a bit hard and humbling to write the update because it showed that my first impressions were very premature. I should know by now that , for myself at least, it actually takes months to get the measure of a speakers. My update may seem harsh, but for whatever it's worth, I wanted to let everyone know that I no longer own them and why I don't. I really have no interest in bashing them or the brand, and I certainly believe that they are working well for others. That said, they didn't work well for me in my room where a number of other speakers, large and small have performed well. |
@roxy54 What did you end up with? Sorry if I missed it from previous post. |
That's a good question... After I sold the 888's, I decided to put my Odyssey Audio Kismet Reference floorstanders up for sale. I thought that they were very fine speakers in almost every way, except that the midbass was a little week, taking some of the power that is in that range away, and it bothered me over a period of 2 years. Even at that, they made the Sourcepoints seem lacking (to my ears) in most other areas. in the interim, I started using a mint set of old Celestion sl6si's that I had, and I realized that I really enjoyed the presentation in my room, even though they had obvious low frequency and dynamic limitations. So, I began a search for good, dynamic small monitors and decided to try to get a set of Triangle Magellan Duettos if possible. I located a dealer with a demo pair, but his price was too high for my budget, and I decided against them. That same night, I happened to see on USAM a set of Crites Cornscalas that were being sold for a very reasonable price by a well-off gentleman who owns a number of pairs of very good speakers and was just making room for new Sashas. He had bought these new from Crites and had them veneered in Teak professionally as well as upgrading the mid horn driver and the crossover and rewiring them with Audio Note cable and Audio Note binding posts. I am a long time fan of Klipsch having owned Khorns and Epic CF4's for many years, so I found it irresistible, and I bought them. At this time, I am having custom stands built for them to raise the horn to the correct level. I am enjoying them very much, but as with any speaker, they aren't perfect, and I don't expect perfection. The mid bass that I was missing is back. |
I had Crites Cornscalas for a little while. They were good, just not great. One shortcoming I found was a cabinet resonance in the midbass that once I heard it, it couldn’t be unheard. I attribute that to the removable rear wall that flexes with deep bass passages. Some things I did to improve them was to wrap the midrange horn with dynamat. I also lined the rear cabinet wall with dynamat. But the biggest improvement was a set of ALK crossovers. The Crites xovers are a real weak point in my opinion. Good luck with the speakers. |
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