LX-3 Floorstanding Speakers

By its very nature, speaker design is about balancing variables and finding the best possible compromise. At entry-level price points, where the cost of production is most constrained by the need to hit a specific retail price, the necessity of compromise is at its greatest. But does one have to accept that a ‘budget’ speaker will always deliver a ‘budget’ performance? Mission’s designers are not the easily accepting kind. They push for greatness in design, whereas most would be happy to stop at ‘good’.

What makes a great loudspeaker? What makes it sing? For Mission, the answer is simple: in a well-matched system, the speakers have to allow the performance of the music to shine through. It’s not a group of notes; it’s a performance. It’s not all about frequency response, impedance, sensitivity and directivity, although they all play a part. To paraphrase a famous expression, it’s the music, the whole music and nothing but the music – and that, in a nutshell, is Mission’s philosophy.

For the LX Series, the speakers’ design has been stripped design back to its fundamentals to produce a range of speakers that Mission can be proud of in engineering terms, but even more so in terms of the enjoyment the speakers’ owners will experience.

LX-3 Specifications

• General description : Floor-standing
• Enclosure type : Ported
• Transducer complement : 2-way
• Bass driver : 2 x 130mm advanced fibre
• Treble driver : 25mm microfibre dome
• AV magnetically shielded : No
• Sensitivity (1W @ 1m) : 89.5db
• Recommended amplifier power : 30-120w
• Nominal impedance : 6 Ohms
• Minimum impedance : 3.6 Ohms
• Frequency response (+/-3dB) : 42-30kHz
• Crossover frequency : 2.2kHz

Dimensions (mm) 

• Height (on plinth & spikes) : 900+20mm
• Width : 191mm
• Depth (with grille) : 265+10mm
• Carton size : 400 x 310 x 1025mm
• Net weight : 17.4kg
• Gross weight : 20.3kg/carton
• Finish : Black wood