Mofi Sourcepoint 888?

"they did many things impressively except for the upper midrange lower treble dry, brash flavor. "

Just like bookshelves, always system dependent.

Everyone's "Goldilocks" setup will  be different.

You might find these videos interesting.

https://youtu.be/iF7QaP0AZcY?si=vcWw_6sXe622fXph

Midrange glare is the worst trait in a speaker. It will be interesting to hear opinions with other front ends.

It is NOT midrange glare...this speaker can throw an unusual amount of midrange detail at you for this price (not fake detail), the likes of which you only start to hear in pricier TADs, etc... i.e. the type of speaker that starts to reveal the goofiness of Class D naked emperors. In other words, go with meatheaded class A/AB for this speaker. I heard it with older big Levinsons.

Many lackluster manufacturers with lackluster drivers use the oldest trick in the book to fool the hifi enthusiast into thinking that their speaker is very detailed! (just tilt the top end up a bit, and the dude will think his speaker is detailed, whoop di doo). The Class D naked emperors might stay unexposed when such trickery is deployed.

This speaker is not one of those "fake detail" speakers.

IMO, even the bookshelf speaker should have been a 3 way "larger" bookshelf with an additional bass driver (88 not 8)...

I heard these at a home with  a Boulder integrated and Weiss dac 

and these speakers were not out of place whatsoever.

in fact the Bass is very conservatively rated we played 28 hz test tone from a concert grand piano and other organ tones feeling Bass even into the mid 20 s 

I maybe giving them a big time Xover upgrade $1200 in top of the line capacitors and resistors would with East put this in the $15k+  Loudspeaker without any 

stretch almost 97 lbs each .the drivers maybe made overseas and cabinet 

but Andrew Jones overseas every step of their production .

he calls them the working man’s TAD loudspeaker and I totally agree .

These will play with a modest 40wpc tube amp but truly love to play loud,higher power better control.

that being said as a point source coaxial mid tweeter he did a great job.

I am a 40 year audiophile and owned a Audio store for a decade these are a steal 

for $5k  these beat most speakers in many areas at over $10 k.

I think a 10 inch version would be great but the Bass is Very solid ,no sub needed 

for 95% of Audiophiles.

Erin in his corner raved about it recently, it appears.

Mofi 888 - Erin's Audio Corner