New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)

I did not notice sibilance but only had a very short listen. Are you saying the speakers produced sibilance where there should be none? Sibilance can be a natural occurrence and not necessarily an artifact of reproduction. In fact I’m not sure I have ever heard any good quality hifi that produced artificial sibilance. Maybe if something was defective or not working properly, like a defective driver, crossover, system component or vinyl playback that is not tracking well or record has groove damage. Maybe if amp clipping. In any of these cases the cause is not the speaker design. Speakers just often mistakenly get all the credit or blame accordingly.

Well, next week there'll be this to look forward to:

Upscale Audio is only about an hour and a half from me (hate LA traffic) but who knows how I'll feel after watching the next video. 

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise

"an hour and a half "

SD?

To be clear, the hardness or sibilance I heard was mild and could be attributable to the other components, or the room or the music sample.  What I did note was that the speaker has no controls.  This is somewhat of a disappointment—an L-Pad makes it far easier to integrate a speaker into a particular system/room.  I know manufacturers are reluctant to include them because customers often don’t know how to use them and complain about the sound, but, I think it is better include controls.

@grislybutter 

No, more like North Hollywood but Upscale Audio is only open M-F and traffic has gotten really bad in this area. San Diego is about a three hour drive nowadays.

I remember when I could drive to SD in just over an hour back in the '80s. In fact, the last time I drove to SD, I avoided the 5 fwy and took the 210 over to the 15 down to SD and it was faster than taking the more direct route on the 5.

All the best,
Nonoise