Welcome to Mission!
Mission is a brand that purveys lifestyle audio fusing Hi-Fi heritage with contemporary design.
Music leads, technology follows.
Revisited as a sister model to the eagerly anticipated reintroduction of the Mission 770 - a model which
heralded the return to UK manufacturing for the Mission brand; the Mission 700 takes what was referred to as
an ‘industry benchmark, in the original 700 model, but utilises Mission's 40 years of evolution and
development in loudspeaker design.
Led by Mission’s Director of Acoustic design, Peter Comeau, the new Mission 700 bears a striking aesthetic
resemblance to the original. However, there are many complex innovations and improvements that bring this
revered model bang up to date.
As with the flagship 770, Mission has developed a new polypropylene bass/midrange driver and
model-specific motor system. This transducer not only upgrades the loudspeaker’s integral design to take
account of modern power handling and dynamic requirements, but it also maintains the extended response
and low colouration of the original model with all the hallmarks and distinction of a class-leading loudspeaker.
From the rigid, cast chassis to low-density surround, every aspect has been revisited to offer a driver with
improved rigidity, precision-controlled cone-termination and dynamics performances that offer a tight, fast
and energetic output.
The distinctive reflex port has been carefully profiled both internally and externally to achieve very low
distortion and extension to below 38Hz in-room.
Employing a new lightweight, coated microfibre dome for the high-frequency driver, the Mission 700
replicates the flagship 770 with a specially damped rear chamber that offers super smooth treble
performance, largely thanks to the resonance control offered by such a design.
The Mission 700 was a precursor for what would become a Mission standard in an unconventional driver array,
something Mission refers to as ‘Inverted Driver Geometry’. Not just a design statement, IDG is a staple of
Misson loudspeaker design from the 700 onwards. By positioning the treble unit below the bass/midrange
driver, the length of the path is equalised so the sound waves coincide at the listener’s head height. This
principle improves ‘time alignment’. Such design requires more than just inverting the speaker cabinet. Every
aspect of the industrial and mechanical design requires a precision calculation to ensure the positioning,
spacing and alignment aids the objective of optimum ‘time alignment’. This is perfected by an artisan-level
crossover design.
Part of the Mission design process includes advanced software-based crossover mapping and simulation to
accurately equalise the balance of the drivers for seamless integration into the overall loudspeaker
performance. Not breaking with tradition or protocol, the efficiency of the software-based development is
matched in equal part with 1000s of hours of listening tests. The resulting crossover design brings a musical
character with thrilling detail and musicality not just matching but superseding the acclaimed level of
performance set by the original Mission 700.
Form factor remains true to the original, wherever possible. This includes hand-applied, rich rose-tinted walnut
or black real wood veneers and a luxurious laminated white-front baffle. However, as spoken of in the original
design, the Mission 700 makes use of less visible innovations incorporated into the design. The new 700
cabinet uses a sandwich construction of differing woods bonded by a layer of damping adhesive. Internal
bracing adds further strength and support while a mixture of foam and long hair fibre provides internal
resonance and reflection absorption.
As it was in the beginning with the original, the new Mission 700 packs technology and know-how into a
benchmark loudspeaker design that is never short in bass definition, frequency response; lack of colouration;
imaging; transient attack; depth and perspective; accuracy and linearity; speed and dynamic range. And as
you’d expect from a model with such nostalgia and history, the emotion in musical performance is never short
in supply!
Introduction
Important
Safety Instruction
Positioning The
Loudspeakers
Connecting The
Loudspeakers
Warranty CoverageSpecifications Introduction
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