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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.  

roxy54
kofibaffour
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Happy to see people join the Sourcepoint Train. It's cozy and enjoyable here 

pryso
2,055 posts
 

More than a couple of weeks, but here is an update.

After initial set up I was positively impressed with the 888s.  So I wasn't overly concerned with "break in" but I played them several hours a day as background with FM when I wasn't active listening.  I didn't estimate the hours or note a specific point when sonics improved but suddenly I realized everything simply sounded more alive.

In particular, recordings by Lightin' Hopkins and Johnny Cash (Cash) sounded like they were in my room performing.  More complex music, whether jazz, classical, or classic rock, also offered wonderful depth and speciality.  Overall, the components simply disappear and I luxuriate in the music.

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lak
4,816 posts
 

@pryso thanks for the update, very interesting, I'm glad to hear the speakers are working out for you.

pryso
2,055 posts
 

Correction, that should be spatiality, but most likely knew that. ;^)

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roxy54 OP
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I wanted to give an update since I was the OP, for what it might be worth, and because I was watching a Danny Ritchie YouTube video about the Sourcepoint 10’s

today, and it confirmed what I had heard. I had only owned the 888’s for a couple of weeks when I realized not only that they weren’t the right speakers for me, but that I didn’t think that they were very good speakers period.

Having come from a speaker that has a scanspeak beryllium tweeter, the first thing I noticed was a very dull, rolled off treble region. Next I realized that, surprisingly for a dual concentric, the imaging wasn’t very good. Finally, the scale of voices and images in the midrange was too small for a large speaker, seemingly out of proportion to the bass. Speaking of the bass, considering the number of drivers, it wasn’t really that impressive.

What Danny showed was how cheap the crossovers were...iron core inductors and cheap capacitors. All in all, he said it was a good design let down by a cheap crossover. It answered some questions for me, and pretty as they were, I have to t missed them a bit.

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