Magnificent Mission Freedom Speakers - Immaculate Classics!
The Mission 770 Freedom is an award winning British loudspeaker with variants dating from the late 70s through to today...They recently relaunched a new version of the 770 for an eye-watering $7,000! (https://www.rapalloav.co.nz/product/mission-770-standmount-speakers/)
This pair is the Mission 770 V series produced back in the mid 1980s...although these are so stunning that they look like they just came off the production line! This was a quite different loudspeaker to previous designs; its performance was well in excess of what had come before, particularly in terms of bass extension which to this day is impressive with meaningful output measurable down to as low as 28 hertz. The effortlessness and speed of its delivery drew favorable reviews.
Mission described the performance of their latest model as follows: "When measured, the Freedoms are capable of extraordinary behaviour. The on-axis response is smooth, off-axis measurements exhibit minimal aberrations, and driven at 90 dB the midband distortion is close to 0.1% - approaching amplifier specifications!"
These speakers were considered state of the art reference monitors for their time, being very revealing and transparent. Overall they have a very clean and smooth sound and accurate stereo imaging due in no small part to the horn loaded tweeter. They also have what could be described as a characteristically eighties sound, there is an emphasis on speed and attack and dynamics.
These model V variants occupied a place high up in a product range that included such classics as the Mission 70, the Cyrus 1 amplifier, the DAD7000 CD player, and the 774LC tonearm - a line up that is today widely regarded as 'classic'
For more on the history of the 770 series, visit https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/9258806
Dimensions (incl stands): 86 x 26 x 32 cm Weight (incl stands): 15kg each
The Mission 770 Freedom is an award winning British loudspeaker with variants dating from the late 70s through to today...They recently relaunched a new version of the 770 for an eye-watering $7,000! (https://www.rapalloav.co.nz/product/mission-770-standmount-speakers/)
This pair is the Mission 770 V series produced back in the mid 1980s...although these are so stunning that they look like they just came off the production line! This was a quite different loudspeaker to previous designs; its performance was well in excess of what had come before, particularly in terms of bass extension which to this day is impressive with meaningful output measurable down to as low as 28 hertz. The effortlessness and speed of its delivery drew favorable reviews.
Mission described the performance of their latest model as follows: "When measured, the Freedoms are capable of extraordinary behaviour. The on-axis response is smooth, off-axis measurements exhibit minimal aberrations, and driven at 90 dB the midband distortion is close to 0.1% - approaching amplifier specifications!"
These speakers were considered state of the art reference monitors for their time, being very revealing and transparent. Overall they have a very clean and smooth sound and accurate stereo imaging due in no small part to the horn loaded tweeter. They also have what could be described as a characteristically eighties sound, there is an emphasis on speed and attack and dynamics.
These model V variants occupied a place high up in a product range that included such classics as the Mission 70, the Cyrus 1 amplifier, the DAD7000 CD player, and the 774LC tonearm - a line up that is today widely regarded as 'classic'
For more on the history of the 770 series, visit https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/9258806
Dimensions (incl stands): 86 x 26 x 32 cm Weight (incl stands): 15kg each