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

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.

For best results, listen to sage advice of others  advising to pay attention to measured dispersion patterns of speakers when accessing what to buy and when setting up to best understand what it is you are hearing and why.

The Evokes are good speakers but very lean in lower frequencies and when people say laid back, it really means slow, lacking dynamics, decent midrange. Their highs is their strength really. But the Contours are a big step up, I heard the MoFis once, sounded good, but nothing to write about, I would call both of them gateway or bedroom speakers.