Mofi Sourcepoint 8 made me realize I’m a critical listener

@vette5451 

Make sure you have them on the proper 22 inch stands.  

Experiment with positioning - start with the recommended positions in the manual. 

Adjust toe angle to give you the best sound stage (not too narrow or small, not too wide with loss of center image definition, best frequency balance). 

If those do not work out I highly recommend the BMR monitors.  An extreme value under $2K and will definitely satisfy all of your critical listening needs.

As an update, I’ve added an additional 60 hours to the speakers with 20 of those hours coming from devoted listening. My conclusion is the Mofi’s will be returned tomorrow.

One detail I forgot to mention is that my room is acoustically treated to the max. I’ve  enjoyed spending time over the past year completing the acoustic treatment. With that being said, the Mofi’s just don’t provide the same level of clarity or soundstage of the Dynaudio’s in my listening space. 
 

I spent time on Friday moving the Mofi’s in every placement and direction in the room and was able to achieve a good soundstage but the sparkle just isn’t there. I’ll keep my Evoke 20’s for now and either audition the Contour series or maybe the ATC SMC 19 v2. I’ve heard a a lot of good things about ATC and they could be a contender on my journey.

i appreciate everyone’s input and feedback!

Thanks for your impression. Other than treble how do you like them? If someone was to place a super tweeter on each box do you think they'd have a reasonably hi rez system on a budget?

The Mofi SP 8’s are good speakers and validated by many positive reviews. They just don’t provide enough detail for my preference. 

I personally wouldn’t add a tweeter to a speaker to try and improve the sound quality, especially if it’s a new speaker. 

I couldn’t find data on any of the Dynaudio Evoke series, but looking at their other speakers I could see a lot of what one would expect from the topology they typically use, and that is a widening of dispersion until the crossover frequency, where it narrows again as the woofer takes over, and then goes wide again. This results in a classic sound that I personally find intriguing at times, tiring at others. A widening of dispersion at higher frequencies to my ears has more openness and sparkle in most listening rooms. Some times I like it, sometimes I don’t.

The Mofi maintains a more even dispersion widening effect as the frequency goes down. It’s pretty optimal according to certain technical specifications that say that’s what speakers should do. My personal preferences generally agree with that assessment. All things considered, I find speakers with a very smooth change in directionality sound more natural overall. But that can mean less sparkle on some recordings that might sound better with. Ultimately it comes down to preference. 

I’ve been tinkering with loading dome tweeters and midranges into waveguides and I run into problems with reflections. I don’t know how folks from Genelec or Mofi are getting them to measure so well. The center of a dome produces most of the sound power, and that leads to reflections that create cancellation zones when I try it. KEF uses a fancy phase plug in their coaxial tweeters. That I can understand. How Genelec and Mofi get away without one is a trick I don’t understand.