Me and my Missions - or, why I got into them in the first place
I've had 3 pairs of real Hi-Fi speakers of any consequence.
My motto is to buy right and buy once. The first (serious) pair of speakers came about after visiting an audio exhibition in Cambridge in 1978. At this time, the super amps to have and own were Boothroyd Stuart Meridian 105 mono-blocks and of course, the deck of choice was the Linn LP12. One of the demo rooms at the show, was packed to the rafters and it was here that I heard my first pair of Mission speakers... the Mighty 770's
I could not afford these, but inspired, discovered a "baby" version called the Mission 710's. So even though I was not even earning money and still at school, I managed to save up enough by doing a part time waiting job for a mobile catering company and earnt enough to pay back the hire purchase. Thanks to Leon, my brother in law, I was able to bring home a perfect set of Mission 710's. (PS - the images shown of Mission 710's are generic and not mine... the one on the right shows how sad the might look these days....)
But partnering them with my Sansui A40 (and latterly Sansui A80) amplifier (65 wpc) these little beauties rocked my parents house... parties, serious music. I found them perfect near field monitors.
But... they were not 770's. The looked the part, had similar (identical ?) treble units and a goegeous white front baffle - every bit the pretender to the throne.
That Cambridge show had me haunted. I could still hear Supertramps "Crime of the Century", Elvis Costello's "Green Shirt" and Supertramps seminal track "Rudy" - as if yesterday. The Mission 770's lucid midband, fast bass and open treble were a light year from what I was hearing around the show that day.
I was hooked. I HAD to have me some 770's.
So, how did I get hold of my 770's ? Follow this link
My motto is to buy right and buy once. The first (serious) pair of speakers came about after visiting an audio exhibition in Cambridge in 1978. At this time, the super amps to have and own were Boothroyd Stuart Meridian 105 mono-blocks and of course, the deck of choice was the Linn LP12. One of the demo rooms at the show, was packed to the rafters and it was here that I heard my first pair of Mission speakers... the Mighty 770's
I could not afford these, but inspired, discovered a "baby" version called the Mission 710's. So even though I was not even earning money and still at school, I managed to save up enough by doing a part time waiting job for a mobile catering company and earnt enough to pay back the hire purchase. Thanks to Leon, my brother in law, I was able to bring home a perfect set of Mission 710's. (PS - the images shown of Mission 710's are generic and not mine... the one on the right shows how sad the might look these days....)
But partnering them with my Sansui A40 (and latterly Sansui A80) amplifier (65 wpc) these little beauties rocked my parents house... parties, serious music. I found them perfect near field monitors.
But... they were not 770's. The looked the part, had similar (identical ?) treble units and a goegeous white front baffle - every bit the pretender to the throne.
That Cambridge show had me haunted. I could still hear Supertramps "Crime of the Century", Elvis Costello's "Green Shirt" and Supertramps seminal track "Rudy" - as if yesterday. The Mission 770's lucid midband, fast bass and open treble were a light year from what I was hearing around the show that day.
I was hooked. I HAD to have me some 770's.
So, how did I get hold of my 770's ? Follow this link