THE FINEST-SOUNDING DESIGN OF ENGINEER ANDREW JONES' STORIED CAREER
Of the many reasons to invest in a pair of Mobile Fidelity Electronics SourcePoint 10 bookshelf loudspeakers, one stands above all the others: They are the creation of revered engineer Andrew Jones. Responsible for designing many commercially and critically successful loudspeakers of the past several decades, and touting more than 40 years of industry experience — including stints with KEF, Infinity, Pioneer, TAD, and ELAC — MoFi's Chief Loudspeaker Designer crafted the two-way SourcePoint 10 by starting with a blank sheet of paper. Roughly two years later, he arrived at a beautiful standmount that is the best-performing model of his decorated career.
Jones devised SourcePoint 10 to appeal to music lovers of every stripe — and to play every kind of music with an aptitude foreign to most audiophile speakers that traditionally deliver one or two kinds of music with exceptional results but fall flat in other areas. Whether you prefer relaxing or aggressive fare, acoustic or electric material, or listen to a broad scope of eras and artists depending on your mood, SourcePoint 10 conveys it all without prejudice. This is a speaker that conveys recordings in ways that will touch your heart and stir your soul. And because it involved Jones, it comes loaded with technical acumen.
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Jones chose the 10-inch diameter as the ideal size for the two-way concentric driver to minimize cone movement and produce deep bass. He and MoFi worked from a paper pulp mix and developed a cone shape that both optimizes resonant behavior and meets the requirements of the tweeter waveguide. Jones opted for paper after evaluating a variety of exotic materials. Paper also has the quintessential combination of properties for the size of the cone he needed. The tweeter is a 1.25-inch soft dome capable of working at the 1.6Khz crossover point due to its wide-roll surround and large-diameter voice coil. The wide surround extends the low- and high-frequency response of the tweeter, while the loading of the waveguide increases the low-end efficiency by a significant margin.
