Mofi Sourcepoint 888?

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.  

In the $5K range The SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacle and Revival Audio Atatante 5 sounded better and especially more refined.  I would live with either over the SP 8888. 

Tone wise the SP8s are my favorite with more warmth and less brashness.   

The SVS had true sub bass and was one of my show favorites.  

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.

"did many things impressively except for the upper midrange lower treble dry, brash flavor."

That’s not so good! What were they driven with, @avanti1960 ?

@deep_333 , I still want to hear them with some good class A/B gear. 

@patrickdowns

As deep mentioned, the HiFi Rose Integrated RA180.

Definitely listen with another amp before you buy.  

I can hear the issue with this video- listen with a good set of headphones.  

MoFi SourcePoint 888 Speakers at AXPONA 2024 (youtube.com) 

That being said the SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacles were being driven by an Emotiva XPA-2 Gen3 (only $1300) and sounded smooth, unfatiguing and powerful ! 

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