Mission 770 Bookshelf Speakers

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Sound Reimagined

The Mission 770 already stood for a rich, natural and full bodied sound signature which over the past decades has stood the test of time. Now with advances in technology, an open and crisp signature is delivered by a 20cm polypropylene mid/bass drive unit that is tighter than the original unit that allows you to truly pick out the bass instrumentation whilst not losing any quality.

A woven textile treble unit has been engineered to deliver the cleanest of highs whilst remaining dampened to prolong the lifespan of the unit, this when married up with the mid/bass driver via a damped rear chamber delivers a sound that you will just find delightful.

Cabinet Design

A speaker is only as good as the cabinet it comes in and the Mission 770 is no exception, with a hardwood shell and laminated front baffle, the 770 allows the drive units to truly perform to their best without the cabinet holding the sound back. A twin wall sandwich helps deliver of this optimum performance, which when combined with the British Steel stand gives you not only a superb speaker but a robust one too.

Unfussy Partnering

The Mission 770 speakers are well suited to a range of amplification options and are generally unfussy in their matching. As with everything we sell a full 30 day money back guarantee is included and we recommend arranging a demo to discover how impressive these speakers sound and appear in person (the pictures dont do them justice!)

Emphasis On Design

The emphasis for the design of the new Mission 770 is, indeed, that combination of polypropylene cone and resonance controlled cabinet. Accordingly, Mission has developed a new polypropylene driver, mimicking the extended response and low colouration of the original, while upgrading the motor system to take account of modern power handling and dynamic requirements. Naturally, like the original, the driver is built onto an 8-inch die-cast chassis with larger rear ‘windows’ to reduce early reflections back through the cone. Special care has been taken to marry a low-density nitrile surround to the cone to match its impedance and reduce reflections from the cone edge.

The original 770 was well known for its warm, rich and natural sounding character and the new Mission 770 retains that standing but imbues it with an open, detailed performance that will entice you to explore your whole music collection, once more.

Drivers Anew

A new 20cm polypropylene mid/bass driver was developed for the re-engineered 770, mimicking the extended response and low coloration of the original, while upgrading the motor system to take account of modern power handling and dynamic requirements.

Like the original, the driver is built onto a die-cast chassis with large rear ‘windows’ to reduce early reflections back through the cone. Special care has been taken to marry a low-density nitrile surround to the cone, to match its impedance and reduce reflections from the cone edge.
The new polypropylene cone is loaded with minerals to make it stiffer than the original, yielding fast, tight bass that enables the listener to hear exactly how bass instruments are being played. This is balanced by tuning the cabinet and reflex port to a very low frequency, avoiding the ‘one note bass’ that is typical of a lot of bass reflex systems. In addition, the port is strongly flared at both inlet and outlet to smooth airflow and eradicate distortion. Bass extends powerfully and cleanly to below 30Hz in room, which is remarkable for this size of speaker.

The Woven textile soft dome treble unit – true to form, with a high flux ferrite magnet, is engineered for smooth, detailed HF extension. This new treble unit uses a lightweight, damped microfibre dome with an ultra-smooth response, backed by a damped rear chamber that pushes the fundamental resonance well below the crossover region. The quality of this 28mm dome marries perfectly with the mid/bass driver to ensure evenness of character throughout the range of the whole speaker.