I've heard they sound good! I have a pair of these under my bed, one has a blown crossover though. They're actually reasonable little speakers when working, and they look quite nice. I've had a pair of these and the floorstanding model.
They're certainly not 'over-engineered'. But they do sound reasonably good. Replacement drivers were c. Just don't drive them hard. FWIW my standard 's, had circa 20 years, still surprise me how good they sound, if you can them fixed cheaply i'd say keep. You're lucky they let you take them. At our tip they're a bit OTT on health and safety. Even when I said I would cut off the plug I was not allowed to take it. I wasn't too miffed as I suppose there was some logic to it but then some weeks later I needed about one foot of cable.
There were masses of it lying around but once again health and safety struck again. It hard to imagine about one foot of lighting cable posing a significant threat. Brussels again? Above the input tray a label displays the model information and serial number.
The baffle is a reinforced polypropylene injection moulding which is let into the front of the cabinet and projects some 28mm from it. As is Mission's custom with their small loudspeakers, the tweeter is sited below the LF driver so as to equalise the distance from their effective radiating source points to the ear of a seated listener with the cabinets set on normal height stands.
All things being equal, this can have a quite dramatic effect in the clarity and coherence of the sound in the crossover region where the two drivers share the work. The effect has to do with relative phase and is sometimes called time-alignment. If for some reason the loudspeakers have to be sited higher than usual the cabinets should be set upside down or even tilted to achieve the same effect. The crossover is a simple 'hard-wired' six-element second-order network centred on kHz.
It is mounted in a set of neat, purpose-shaped compartments on the reverse of the input terminal tray. High quality components are used, with an air-cored inductor and a film capacitor in the HF pole. The wiring to the drive units is high quality, high current capability multi-stranded copper.
Mission have come up with a clever arrangement for the protective front grille: it is also a polypropylene moulding into which an open-weave fabric is very neatly integrated. It is a tight push-fit into locating slots on the baffle and when in place becomes all of a piece with it, supplying rounded corners which help reduce diffraction effects at the baffle edges.
It should be left in place. Mission advise running-in their loudspeakers for 24 hours, which is certainly good practice and especially important for units brought indoors from the cold. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. Forum List. What's new New posts Latest activity. Search forums. Members Current visitors. Log in. Install the app.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Failing Mission se speakers. Either it's the warts'n'all approach, in which the loudspeaker's inevitable imperfections are undisguised, and hang the awful noises it may make with inexpensive ancillaries; or the cosmetic approach, where the loudspeaker's rough edges are smoothed off, even if this means some sacrifice to ultimate transparency In the SE, Mission has clearly attempted to plot a middle course between these two extremes.
You might anticipate from this a compromise in the worst possible sense, but in truth the SE is a feat of balance of which even Blondin would have been proud That is, provided your listening position is correct.
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