Many years ago I owned a pair of Mordaunt Short MS 30's, and I always regretted selling them. Have been on the lookout for the larger MS speakers, but they don't come up for sale often. Last time I saw a pair of MS 880 for sale, it must have been 5 years ago. But last week these came up locally, and I had the good fortune to acquire them.

Interesting speaker, its very well built. Uses a cast resin cabinet, which I suspect would be expensive to produce. The low end is claimed to be 28 hertz. I was playing some reggae, and my Australian Sheppard/Border Collie got frightened by the bass notes. Fireworks and thunder scare him, and the 4th of July is a bad time of the year. But this is the first time my stereo has evoked such a response. I have had several full range speaker systems.

Only doing casual listening now since I need to address wiring them. They have a tri-wire set up in the back that is a PITA. I use single wire Audio Magic Illusion 4D speaker wire, so I need to have a tri-wire harness fabricated. So far they are a nice speaker to listen to, although judgment is out if they will be my primary speaker.

PS. I got the Subject Line of the post wrong they are from the Performance series of Mordaunt Short speakers.
Regards
Mister Pig

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and the bass drivers. Notice the woofers are slightly different

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I like Mordaunt Short very much. I was in the Lisbon's audio show and listened to their la-*test*-('") models and they sound very very good.

well they look killer, my kind of speaker and i bet they sound that way too. how do they compare to your main speakers?

Hi Scott,

It's too early to say how these are going to sound. having to deal with the tri-wire option throws in a limiting factor. Until I get the harness from Audio Magic, I cannot make any definitive statements.

The best sounding speaker I have had in the house lately has been some from BESL. The review will be out in the Sept issue of A$$A. These come within 90% of the sound in current configuration, if I can get 5% more from the wiring harness then I would be content. The BESl are absolutely nuetral, while these have a bit of an emphasis in the lower treble upper mids. Only noticeable if you have been listening to 8K worth of reference quality speakers for the last 6 weeks.

But they image fantastically, really go down to 28 hertz, and are good at retrieving fine detail. They originally retailed for 3.8K, which was quite reasonable. Stereophile(for what it s worth to you) gave them a Class B recommended components rating, and its other class mates sold for $1000's more. So its a bit of an overachiever.

Regards
Mister Pig