MOBILE FIDELITY ELECTRONICS SOURCEPOINT 10 LOUDSPEAKER
The SourcePoint 10 loudspeaker from MoFi Electronics1 is an interesting, even unusual design. Sized somewhere between a conventional standmount and a small floorstander (but intended to be used on stands), the SourcePoint 10’s beefy cabinet is similar in size to my 1978 Spendor BC1, but the SP10’s 10" coaxial driver, which utilizes Andrew Jones’s “Twin-Drive high-flux neodymium magnet system,” is all new. The SP10 is heavy—at 46.2lb, nearly as heavy as the somewhat larger DeVore Fidelity O/96 (55lb). Perched on its dedicated stand—whether positioned vertically or horizontally, as John Atkinson, who reviewed the SourcePoint 10 for the May issue, did it—it’s solidly a standmount.
Up front, the SourcePoint 10’s sculpted façade recalls Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal at New York’s Kennedy Airport; the baffle’s multisectional face and diagonal lines give it a streamlined look. Its appearance is subtle—I found the review pair’s dark walnut veneer a bit boring, to be honest—yet it has an innate, understated power. Anyway, the sound’s the thing, not the appearance.
The sound of this Technical Editor John Atkinson called the SourcePoint 10 “a high-dynamic-range, almost full-range” loudspeaker. It made his much smaller KEF LS50 sound, well, small. Among other observations, he found that the Source-Point 10s could play loud while maintaining composure. He cued up the 24/96 Qobuz version of “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” from Taylor Swift’s album (Big Machine Records) and “turned up the volume so that the spl at my chair averaged around 100dB (C-weighted). This is about as loud as I can stand to listen, but the sound remained clean, with the bottom-octave bass line in the chorus swelling magnificently into the room.” JA concluded, “When you consider the clean, superbly well-defined low frequencies, the natural-sounding midrange, the high sensitivity, the easy-to-drive impedance, the ability to play loudly without strain, and the affordable price, the SourcePoint 10 gets a thumbs-up from this reviewer.”
