New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)

@glennewdick 

It's only special if its sound proves to be considered superior to the Arden or other similar designs to listeners over a period of time. For now, I think that the reason for the excitement is that the driver was designed form the ground up by a well-known and respected speaker designer

why is this so special?

as @roxy54 said...

it may well not be special... but it is new, from a well known, well liked, respected designer, thus worthy of evaluation and spreading the word around, so to speak

but we are all wise to note the distinction between 'new' and 'special'.... time needs to pass for something to be deemed ’special’

You can have the best drivers in the world......but if the jacks, wires and xover parts are not the best possible then you will never hear the transparency of what the drivers can do (of course, MDF even 2 inches thick on the front is not really a seriously dead material.....but is fine for this price range).  Kef uses ordinary Chinese xover parts, jacks and wire in the LS50 Meta.  In the Blade series they use WBT jacks, better wire, hardwired xover (no circuit traces) and serious "audiophile"  xover parts.  They know what serious parts do.  

So, what are the jacks, wire and xover parts in the MOFI speaker?  For the money, I am sure they are fine.....but what if they made a $1500 a pair more version with all out jacks, wire and xover parts.....now that would be "special".  If you removed the xover from the box and completely rebuilt it with super parts and hard wired it to the voice coil wires of the woofer and to the tweeter you would be mind blown.  This xover would be mounted on a damped platform behind the speaker.  Who will be the first to do this?  Nah....you guys just buy and sell stuff.  You don't hot rod.  It's fine, the speaker is great for the money, I am sure....as are a lot of other speakers in this price range.  But someone has to say the truth.......you will not get state of the art sound from a stock $3600 box speaker...never.......However, you can make a speaker for less than $2500 that will be much better in every way.....this is also true.  I am sure if I had this speaker here I would really enjoy it.  And after a few hours I would mod the heck out of it and then cry and jump up and down with joy.

I find the hype around these speakers very entertaining.

Indeed these may be great speakers for your listening environment or they maybe total duds?

I find Jay annoying and entertaining also, 

This isn't the first, not will it be the last time that a product, independent of itself, fell prey to the collective id of the masses. 

It's not even been properly reviewed and tested and already there are camps deriding it and others praising it while the saner amongst us sit fast and patiently await its arrival. 

Such is the sad story of our times. We are of a Paleolithic mindset, set in a medieval culture and victim to god like technology that allows everyone to chime in at once. (like handing a loaded gun to a chimp)

Fools think Elmo to be a genius when he said Vox Populi, Vox Dei, as if the voice of the people can speak as god if enough say so. But the original goes....

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

Which translates to...And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Such is the resultant hype and put downs of a product that no one has listened to yet.

All the best,
Nonoise