Mission M770 Speakers with Stands - Black, Pair
"Right Up There with the Best" – Stands
Included
The Mission 770 represents one of the most iconic models in
the long history of Mission loudspeakers. It's a speaker that embodied the
Mission pioneering research through the late 70s and 80s, with a bloodline
dating back to 1977.
The original Mission 770 debuted in 1978. It quickly became
Mission's best-selling speakers. The project's design and engineering team was
led by Peter Comeau, Mission's current Director of Acoustic Design. For Peter,
the new Mission 770 is a labor of love.
The original 770 was well known for its warm, rich, and
natural sounding character. The new Mission 770 retains that standing but
imbues it with an open, detailed performance that will entice you to explore
your music collection all over again.
"Recommended Component" Honors
Stereophile honored the 770 by awarding it the
magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2025.
According to Stereophile, "JA [Jon
Atkinson] found the 770s' low frequencies extended and articulate, with low
distortion. He was also impressed by the speaker's midrange, which he described
as 'warm, detailed, and musically involving,' especially with vocal recordings.
He summed up his time with the 770 by saying that its 'sonic character was in
some ways more than the sum of its parts.'"
Brand New Driver and Tuned Cabinet
A new 8" 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.
As on the original 770, the driver is built on an 8"
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 lets you 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 the inlet and outlet to smooth airflow and eradicate
distortion. Bass extends powerfully and cleanly to below 30 Hz, which is
remarkable for this size of speaker.
"Detail Akin to the Best Speakers I’ve Heard"
The Mission 770 snagged a Reviewer's Choice Award -fromsoundstagehifi.com.
According to Doug Schneider, "From its deep bass to its extended highs,
the 770 proved commendably neutral, which is quite an achievement if it was
truly designed more by ear than by measurements. But perhaps the ear-tuning is
what instilled the performance aspects I liked most—the rich, powerful bass
combined with a midrange that blossomed with realism with all the music I
played, yet still provided detail akin to the best speakers I’ve heard."
New Woven Textile Tweeter
The 770's 1" woven textile soft dome tweeter with a
high flux ferrite magnet is engineered for smooth, detailed, high frequency
extension. This new treble unit uses a lightweight, damped microfiber 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
1" dome marries perfectly with the mid-bass driver to ensure evenness of
character throughout the range of the whole speaker.
Coherent, Seamless Crossover
Today's advanced software crossover mapping and measuring
techniques allow Mission to perfect the balance between bass and midrange and
adjust the crossover to the treble unit by mapping the acoustic crossover
slopes with extreme accuracy. Even so, the choice of EQ and crossover for the
new 770 involved hundreds of hours of listening sessions using a wide variety
of music. Over 170 circuit iterations were tried before the final crossover was
settled upon.
The circuit was then mapped out onto separate bass and
treble PCBs using very short signal paths and accommodating high-quality
components such as super-transparent polypropylene capacitors and air core
inductors, maintaining the simplicitysxof the original while improving critical
elements. The resulting transparency to musical detail ensures that the
thrilling emotion of music is fully conveyed.
An Exceptional Cabinet
The drivers and crossover are housed in a real-wood veneered
cabinet with a white laminated front baffle echoing the style that made the
Mission 770 a stand-out hi-fi product in the 1970s and '80s.
Beneath the rich, rosy-tinged walnut or black veneers lies a
further technological advancement. The original 770 reduced midrange coloration
using the BBC-influenced technique of a thin-wall cabinet damped by mass
loading with bitumen pads. The new 770 features a twin-wall sandwich of
high-density MDF and particle board bonded by a layer of high-damping adhesive.
This results in a cabinet with panel resonance well below audibility, allowing
the drive units to do their job unsullied by cabinet coloration at all
frequencies.
Internal bracing adds strength to the front baffle and
braces the drive unit to the cabinet.This mechanical support aids the dynamic
performance of the bass unit and reveals the microdynamics of the musical
performance. This is complemented by a layer of acoustic foam and damping fiber
strategically placed to absorb reflections inside the cabinet without
overdamping the bass quality.
Custom Stands Included
The inludedMission 770 stand is custom designed in
conjunction with Mission's Director of Acoustic Design, Peter Comeau. Every
aspect is considered to create the perfect presentation of the 770 speaker.
Handmade in the England, with robust British steel, the 770 stand reinforces
the no-compromise approach in the 'Made in UK' theme for the return of the
Mission 770.
A Tradition of Quality and Value – Made in the UK
The new 770 heralds the return of UK-based manufacturing for
the Mission brand, where a 25,000 square foot production facility has been
built in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
The Mission 770 has always been manufactured according to
the Mission principles of quality and value for money. The new Mission 770
further exemplifies these two standards. It emphasizes fine craftsmanship,
natural sound quality, and affordability inside a beautifully proportioned
loudspeaker that has been bought in its millions right across the globe through
its various incarnations.
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