Small in stature, grand in performance. These are very heavy speakers at 6kg each! and boy do they have a heavy punch aswell. Paying for and owning these speakers is like asking for basic Fish & Chips and a bottle of Coke and then being sevred Yangchenglake Da zha followed by a bottle of Louis Roederer's Cristal Champagne!!!

Quite simply,outstanding speakers Made in England.

Sound - open, neutral, fast, detailed. Looks - sexy speakers, unique style Build - Solid, good size and dimensions. Quality finish. Biwirable Partnered with better components, these shine even more.

Not the deepest bass. Very revealing of source components. Some may find too forward sounding.

Should have written a review on this a long time ago. I've had these babies for almost 10 years now since it first burst into the scene early 90's. The first time I viewed them on what hifi magazine and read the reviews, I went to a local hi-fi store to check it out. I was already familiar with the Mission sound as at that time, I owned a pair of 760i bookshelf ones. But I needed a fix. Heard these blocks at the store and after a short audition, I snatched them up without any hesitation. Was the best purchase I made and never regretted buying them. There are a few things that made me fall in love with them. Firstly, the appearance. Style - with its upside down driver/tweeter combo which I thought was unique. Sound for sure. Clear, open, detailed, fast and agile. Able to follow transients in music with remarkable poise. Tight bass. Voices sounded like they were leaping from the speaker itself. Build -solid feel to the cabinet, elegant finish with good dimensions and weight. Doesn't look cheap. These I hooked up to my Audiolabs on top of Atacama stands and boy, did these give me years of listening pleasure until I relegated them to HT as rears....(that's another story)....Overall, a great buy and can accomodate almost any kind of music you want. Provides sufficient bass but if you're looking for real deep monster bass, then look elsewhere.

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Mission 753/753freedom, 751c, 760i, cyrus 780, 761i, wharfedale delta, Kef coda 7

Superbly musical, warm and sweet sound, tight punchy bass, very involving and smooth, good clarity.

None at this price ( refering to original price).

I came across this pair of speaker at a second hand shop at sim lim sq. Thus out of curiosity went in for some listening, I was stunned by the warm and sweet sounding 751, and since it is a good offer at only $100. I took it home as an extra pair for my hi-fi set-up. I was total astounded by the sound. I have compared it to my M.A silver 4 and could not believe that it is even better than the M.A. The M.A is good but this Mission is even better. I suspects that it is even better than the 780 and M51 which I read from some older reviews

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Old JBL TX series, Monitor Audio Silver 4.

Outstanding dynamics, controlled bass which defies physics! A clean top end that is smooth and matches the rest of the speaker perfectly. Fantastic presence and smooth sweet sound, no boom and can be bi-wired.

VERY heavy for such little boxes! Also wish I could have had them in birch as black looks so ugly these days! Still, wouldnt swap them for the world!!!

Being an electronics engineer, I have always had an interest in music and hifi reproduction since a toddler! Having built many countless pairs of speakers myself, listened to my dad''s journey through hifi during the late 70''s / early 80''s and visiting many friends houses during my university years auditioning speakers, I felt I knew what I was looking for. I play and compose my own music, and when listening to recordings the most important thing for me is detail, presence and a strong soundstage. I enjoy acoustic music mostly, for example unplugged sessions, mary black, light classical pieces (chamber especially), acoustic alchemy, and very open light female soul music. I need speakers that would give me all this, a powerful presence and 3D soundstage, sparkling but not grating top end and a tight but deep bass. I like to feel the presence of bass, not hear it, I HATE booming bass! Having realised that my budget was under £500, I knew I had some serious listening to do! I also needed something that wouldnt mind my sub-audiophile grade components, a Kenwood KAV8500 amplifier, at the time a basic CD624 philips bitstream player and a sony minidisc. I also wanted to be able to belt my keyboards through the system, without fear of smoking the drive units. At the time I lived in a bedroom 8x12 ft and decided that wall brackets were the only option. So that narrowed me down to bookshelf speakers. However I felt in the future, I could put these on stands and given a bigger room, they should stand by themselves. I must be honest when I auditioned the 751''s in a listening room, I was dissapointed at the lack of bass. However the speakers had a presence, detail and smooth warmth which knocked me out! I decided to push my worries of bass away, given I could enjoy more in the recording with these than others and took them home. After wiring up with bog 79 strand and anchoring them to the wall, I put on my mary black test cd of no frontiers and closed my eyes... Well... you couldnt wipe the smile of my face! These speakers simply sung so sweet in the room, with a bass so tight, present and clean yet deep and satisfying, it was simply wonderful! The next 5-6 hrs was spent going through my cd collection, finding new things all the time in recordings and experimenting with the position of the speakers.

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mission 760''s, 761SE, JPW mini monitors, BBC LS/3 monitors

Superior build and finish at the price, imaging, vocal
reproduction, ability to play loud without undue compression

Lacks synergy with budget systems, tizzy metal-dome tweeter and tailored balance detracts from neutrality

My first hi-fi speakers and a fine buy at the time. Although it was always overshadowed by its bigger 75 series brothers, Mission designed something of a classic in the original incarnation of these high-class / low-cost miniatures. It was small, good looking, easily driven, and a boundary design for minimum intrusion on living space. It also pulled off the trick of appearing a full-on audiophile product next to the company's entry-level kit, while being sufficiently close in price to tempt the budget system buyer.

Not the least of its strengths was an unusual sound quality - one not really suited to budget electronics. It's easy to see in retrospect that a good deal of the resolution on offer is achieved by a combination of a pushy midband and the undue prominence of the metal-dome tweeters. Nevertheless, there was enough refinement and coherence to the overall balance to make the sound something special in the class. Image focus and projection, vocal reproduction and the sense of immediacy & space that a good recording can conjure are all conveyed entertainingly well for what is essentially a high-class budget speaker.

Not much happens below 60hz, unsurprisingly, but the mid-bass has enough solidity and punch to satisfy, and it's quite well behaved. The polyprop woofers don't fall apart at highish volumes either; compression only becomes noticeable at well beyond sensible limits.

The `Freedom'-ised 751 (now also discontinued) smoothed out the tonal balance by replacing the tweeters with a more refined silk-dome unit, which made for an easier listen, although some of the appeal of the original design was lost in the process.

Quality of stereo image and scale for small size

Overcome by big bass

MODIFICATIONS = Tweeters wired wrong way around, cheap capacitor in crossover network replaced. Internal wire replaced with silver wire. I'm an engineer developing telecoms hardware....... couldn't resist changing those parts......

Only with Megadeath does it not sound like they are in the room, jazz and classical are great. Pick nice stands and dream about your subwoofer - or use very thick cable....
to warm up the bass, which kicks anyway.....

I think these are superb and a complete bargain in rosewood with gold biwiring terminals i.e. my woman likes the way they look. Everyone is happy!

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None this small or cheap

Excellent midrange, tonal accuracy.

lack of low bass

These are pretty nice speakers. If you want small speakers and listen to a lot of vocal stuff, then these speakers are a very good deal. The mid range is accurate, with a nice overall presentation. The size of the speakers means that the dynamics and bass are limited though. this shouldn't be a problem depending on your taste in music and size of listening area.

If you are looking for a large scale 'big' sound, with a lot of dynamics, then obviously you should be looking at larger speakers.

A quick review from someone who has just bought a pair of these. Good imaging, with the right source/amplification the music projects itself into the room with good detail. Midrange and treble is beautifully sweet and transparent. Bass is decent, but for thudding kickdrums or orchestral crashes they can struggle slightly. This is good for natural jazz recordings, or vocals (which are projected excellently). I compared them to a few floorstanders (Tannoy, Paradigm, TDL) and found them tighter, punchier, more musical.For reference, the system they are in at the moment is Marantz CD63 KI Sig, Arcam Alpha 9 amp. The whole sounds big warm and well detailed.

I have owned a pair of these speakers for about three years now. About a year ago I bought a 10" powered sub to improve the bass response. I have put this combination up against many other expensive speakers, including ESL 63's, B & W P5's, PSB Stratus Gold etc. To date I have yet to find another speaker that sounds better! I primarily listen to jazz and classical music, but my daughter plays her music (Britpop, Drum and Beat, Techno) to great effect with these speakers. The Missions are biwired to a Bryston 3B ST and Bryston BP25 pre-amp with a Denon DCD1290 CD player.
These speakers do require good stands, I use sand-filled Atlantis stands. Location within the room is something that can be experimented with. 20cm from the back wall, with NO toe-in works well.

I love these speakers with piano music, especially Chopin. The highs seem to float in the air, and with your eyes closed it is easy to pick the location of the recording microphone(s) in relation to the instrument. My wife sings in the local Philarmonic Choir and she finds that these speakers reproduce vocal works better than any other speaker we have auditioned. I would recommend these speakers highly, especially when coupled with a good sub!

These are excellent speakers for those who are limited by space.The Missions, paired with good source and amplification have a
very 'live' sound with tight, focussed bass. A great buy for
the budding audiophile.