Mo Fi OML 1 bookshelf monitor

[audio amateur]

That's definitely a good discount if it is one.

[PeruvianSkies]

Those are good speakers, but you have to really like neutral sounding speakers. A friend of mine used to have the OML-2 before he switched to Martin Logans.

[JohnMichael]

The other day I was saying to myself, self you need to jump in the car and drive to Columbus and listen to speakers. The Onkyo is a nice amp and I thought I would get it a new pair of speakers for Christmas. I bought the Ascends in January and they are great speakers for the money but the Onkyo showed me I need to kick it up a notch. Well later that day I found myself using the telephone and ordering the OML 1's.

Well they just arrived. They were very cold and I am letting them warm up at low volumes. They are so handsome. So far they are singing very sweetly. One of the first sounds that impressed me was on Rickie Lee Jones "it's like this" was that for the first time I heard clear seperation between the keyboard and piano in one of her songs. The speaker has better imaging and a more holographic soundstage. It is too soon to comment on bass response. Good first impressions and much cleaner then the Ascends. I am sure the heavy braced cabinet helps along with the quality drivers.

They were interesting to unpack. I opened the outer box to find an inner box suspended by 8 foam corners. Next I opened the inner box to find two individual boxes. I opened the first of the two boxes and found the speaker suspended by 8 more foam corners. Nothing was going to get to those speakers. I lifted the first speaker out and it was wrapped in plastic. After removing the plastic I had to take the speaker out of it's blue velvet bag. I love the look and shape of the speaker. The front baffle is not much larger than the drivers.

Well back to listening.

[PeruvianSkies]

The other day I was saying to myself, self you need to jump in the car and drive to Columbus and listen to speakers. The Onkyo is a nice amp and I thought I would get it a new pair of speakers for Christmas. I bought the Ascends in January and they are great speakers for the money but the Onkyo showed me I need to kick it up a notch. Well later that day I found myself using the telephone and ordering the OML 1's.

Well they just arrived. They were very cold and I am letting them warm up at low volumes. They are so handsome. So far they are singing very sweetly. One of the first sounds that impressed me was on Rickie Lee Jones "it's like this" was that for the first time I heard clear seperation between the keyboard and piano in one of her songs. The speaker has better imaging and a more holographic soundstage. It is too soon to comment on bass response. Good first impressions and much cleaner then the Ascends. I am sure the heavy braced cabinet helps along with the quality drivers.

They were interesting to unpack. I opened the outer box to find an inner box suspended by 8 foam corners. Next I opened the inner box to find two individual boxes. I opened the first of the two boxes and found the speaker suspended by 8 more foam corners. Nothing was going to get to those speakers. I lifted the first speaker out and it was wrapped in plastic. After removing the plastic I had to take the speaker out of it's blue velvet bag. I love the look and shape of the speaker. The front baffle is not much larger than the drivers.

Well back to listening.

Did you get the Walnut finish on them? My friend had the Ivory finish, which I never was really fond of, but they sounded great, incredibly neutral though.