New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)

You can have the best drivers in the world......but if the jacks, wires and xover parts are not the best possible then you will never hear the transparency of what the drivers can do (of course, MDF even 2 inches thick on the front is not really a seriously dead material.....but is fine for this price range).  Kef uses ordinary Chinese xover parts, jacks and wire in the LS50 Meta.  In the Blade series they use WBT jacks, better wire, hardwired xover (no circuit traces) and serious "audiophile"  xover parts.  They know what serious parts do.  

So, what are the jacks, wire and xover parts in the MOFI speaker?  For the money, I am sure they are fine.....but what if they made a $1500 a pair more version with all out jacks, wire and xover parts.....now that would be "special".  If you removed the xover from the box and completely rebuilt it with super parts and hard wired it to the voice coil wires of the woofer and to the tweeter you would be mind blown.  This xover would be mounted on a damped platform behind the speaker.  Who will be the first to do this?  Nah....you guys just buy and sell stuff.  You don't hot rod.  It's fine, the speaker is great for the money, I am sure....as are a lot of other speakers in this price range.  But someone has to say the truth.......you will not get state of the art sound from a stock $3600 box speaker...never.......However, you can make a speaker for less than $2500 that will be much better in every way.....this is also true.  I am sure if I had this speaker here I would really enjoy it.  And after a few hours I would mod the heck out of it and then cry and jump up and down with joy.

I appreciate the last video posted because it showed the insides of the speaker......great cabinet and damping for the money......but the xover, and wires and push on connectors and input connectors are just ordinary Chinese good parts. Wait till someone removes the xover and does a super outboard xover using state of the art parts and wires and hardwired inputs. If someone in the Bay area gets a  pair they can bring them here and I will do what I just suggest. Will blow your mind how much better they will be with super outboard xover.....................However, even better would be to just hardwire some super wire directly to the voice coil wires of the drivers and remove the crossover and store it away somewhere. Remove the binding posts from the plate and run the wires outside long enough so they go to the floor underneath the speaker where you hook the wires up to a Peachtree Gan1 digital amp......one stereo amp per channel. You get a Minidsp Flex all digtial xover and you bi amp using the two Peachtree amps......all connected together with coax digital cables. You can use a streamer into the xover or if you just want to play a cd player you can run that into the xover and use the volume control in the xover. Digital amps like the Peachtree (more coming....real soon) allow you to get rid of your DAC, preamp, normal amps, and analog cables......the purity is amazing and when you get rid of the ordinary xover parts in the speaker and bi-amp you will be in heaven. You set the xover point at where Andrew started (1.6K) but with steeper slopes you could probably run the tweeter to 1 K or lower with even more transparency. With the digital xover you can do anything you like....eq, crossover freq....slope....delay......super fun.

This speaker biamped using two GaN based digital amps will simply blow, blow blow your mind.....gently down the stream....he he.

Mods to the Mofi will not make it measure better.....I am sure it measures really flat......However, with better parts....wire, jacks, coils, caps, resitors and other tweaks it will reach another level.  This is normal stuff....nothing being invented here.  You can always make something better.  Nothing is perfect......but bi-amping with digital amps.....now that can be crazy good!

You guys should see my comments on the Qualia IQ thread.  You cannot buy the speaker driver used in the Mofi....but you can buy the all the parts for the Qualia and make a much better version for about $2.5K.  The stock Qualia is a whole nuther level up from this very good speaker (Mofi) that uses ordinary Chinese sourced wire, xover parts and jacks.  Even if you made an external xover using the worlds best parts and execution.....the modded Mofi would still not image as well or play as delicate or be as dynamic or go as low as the stock Qualia......and since you can make your own Qualia clone that is way better than the stock Qualia for $2.5K.....game over.

Just scroll down a little bit on this speaker forum  Sometime this weekend I should have fairly detailed instructions on my website on how to make your own way better than stock Qualia.

O not A...my bad.

The GaN 1 should have no problems with the 4 ohm Qualio....it has low impedance at low frequencies........The tweeter is not 4 ohms but higher.....and even if it were 4 ohms you would only be down one quarter of a db at 10K......can you hear that?