Mofi Sourcepoint 888?

If he releases a 10-10-10 or a 12-12-10, i'll buy it. I like em big.

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A 10/12 would get my attention.

I see these 888’s being a killer deal in 3-4 years due to low sales.

Just like the AJ Elac Adante-dealers were blowing them out 1/2 price.

I have the adante series in a rig. Expensive fab/priced too low/hard to make money. It was a misunderstood hifi speaker that the avg home theater dude was picking up and putting on receivers..... large/imposing and the home theater wives complained (returned)....i.e, full potential never got realized by such dudes. Hifi brand name snobs thought the name "elac" was beneath them

Long story short, i’ll take a coupled cavity clean bass TAD for 5k prices on the blow out sale. Tech advanced HIFI misunderstandings are great for my wallet.

Listened long at AXPONA and they did many things impressively except for the upper midrange lower treble dry, brash flavor.  Turns out to be present in the entire line.  Possibly due to the amplification but I heard what I heard.  

The Class D naked emperor, hifirose must have struck again (that Mofi is a distributor for). I heard it on some luscious class A/AB and it was juicy and chocolatey.

Midrange glare is the worst trait in a speaker. It will be interesting to hear opinions with other front ends.

It is NOT midrange glare...this speaker can throw an unusual amount of midrange detail at you for this price (not fake detail), the likes of which you only start to hear in pricier TADs, etc... i.e. the type of speaker that starts to reveal the goofiness of Class D naked emperors. In other words, go with meatheaded class A/AB for this speaker. I heard it with older big Levinsons.

Many lackluster manufacturers with lackluster drivers use the oldest trick in the book to fool the hifi enthusiast into thinking that their speaker is very detailed! (just tilt the top end up a bit, and the dude will think his speaker is detailed, whoop di doo). The Class D naked emperors might stay unexposed when such trickery is deployed.

This speaker is not one of those "fake detail" speakers.

IMO, even the bookshelf speaker should have been a 3 way "larger" bookshelf with an additional bass driver (88 not 8)...

Erin in his corner raved about it recently, it appears.

Mofi 888 - Erin's Audio Corner

I have owned the 888’s for awhile. I drive them with mac tubes.

They are above average in my opinion and a decent deal. The vocals and midrange sound truncated and at times break up even at moderate volumes.

Hmmm, guy who lives near my house has been rocking out with the 888s @100db at least with some big ol’ Levinson amps i sold to him....no "truncation" or whatever ever happened when i heard it.

Erin’s audio corner who has them now apparently cranked it to high heaven on his review as well.... and didn’t hear any "truncation"!!??

Seems to me like you are clipping/ doing something terrible to it with your "mac tubes"/ front end electronics ( and blaming it on the speaker instead).

Get a Schiit Wotan amp or Tyr monoblocks and a Kara preamp with Schiit’s "forkbeard" module/accessory. It will let you live monitor your power state, headroom, etc as you crank the music up and down...i.e., get a good front end dude. The guy who designed those speakers gave you a lot of speaker for minimal cost (didn’t rob you like the rest of them), so you can buy a decent front end.