New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)

@nonoise ,

Came from pretty good gene stock. Grandmother just died at 106. Excuse me for having some drinks on Christmas Eve although I’m only about 5 in. Havin a few more now puss cakes 🎂. 

@mofojo , Sorry to hear about your grandmother. She lived a long and full life. Why hide behind her as an excuse for being such a putz when you've been like this before, drinking or not?

@nonoise Merry Christmas. and WAHHHHHHHHHHH!

So I am one of the "influenced" who bought a pair of the SB10s.  They are for a secondary system which is driven by an Allnic T2000 Integrated with KT170s.  I had some other speakers that sold faster than anticipated and needed something to fill the spot without breaking the bank.

I had demoed at my local dealer a number of Klipsch and Harbeth speakers and none of them had the sound that I was looking for.  I am not a listener who uses Diana Krall and Melody Gardot as my ultimate test tracks and I don't just sit in a single spot 8.36 feet away both speakers for hours on end with my eyes closed.))

The dealer was powering the SP10s with a Line Magnetic 845IA and I thought they sounded fuller than the Forte IVs, with a very clear soundstage and pinpoint imaging.  The bass was actually a little lacking for my taste,  They were about six feet from the wall and when we moved them closer to the front wall the bass really picked up.  The build quality was also better than expected.

It would be interesting to try them with a high power class D integrated amp like a Michi or T+A PA1100E, but for now they are serving their purpose.  

I think the comments from @prof are accurate.  I am about a week in and the highs are not causing any issue (which I have had from Golden Ears as an example).  They are sitting on Wharfdale stands while waiting for the MoFi stands to arrive.

Everyone, please enjoy Christmas or whatever you celebrate with your friends and family.  In my case it is dogs - while watching Raphie in a Christmas Story.  Have to love the "Old Man."

as more reviews, written and online, emerge from various sources over the past few weeks, i think a reasonable picture of what these speakers are is emerging

while i haven’t heard them myself yet (not a priority for me personally), i would summarize as follows

-- more traditional look, big box, wide-ish baffles, need decent stands, imposing in a room (to me it is interesting given the concentric drivers, the speaker may need to be raised up more than usual - to compared to say a pair of harbeths with higher mounted tweeter - for correct height and treble dispersion)

-- good to very good, full-ish bass response, somewhat lively forward mid/lower treble, but rolled off high treble with a ’big speaker’ sonic presentation not to be mistaken with more typical standmount bookshelf models - as such, can lead to some fatigue if not well mated to suited upstream components

-- placement and setup quite important (isn’t it always?!) to get proper degree of room boundary interaction, which in turn affects perceived bass response and overall tonal balance of the speaker... i suspect without proper stands issued that quite a few users don’t have the speakers at the proper height

-- excellent driver integration or coherence up and down the frequency range, to be expected with well designed custom drivers, crossover and concentricity, core strengths of andrew jones’ work coupled with good efficiency/easy impedance and thus can be driven by many/most real world amps

-- wide baffle and room interaction makes it pretty obvious the speakers sound has some noticeable ’boxy’ characteristics, which may or may not be an impediment, depending on what the listener has otherwise experienced

-- overall good to very good performance for the $$