Bookshelf / Surround

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.

The cabinet is as critical as the drive units and crossover to the overall performance of any loudspeaker system. Designing an effective low-cost box is tricky, as budget dictates that the designer can’t use expensive materials or high mass to create an inert structure.

With the help of 3D Computer-Aided Design, finite element analysis and laser interferometry, coupled with a a great deal of experience, a budget cabinet can be designed that delivers better rigidity with lower radiated noise than most designers would believe achievable at such low material cost.

Specifications:

• General Description    Bookshelf
• Enclosure Type    Ported
• Transducer Complement    2-way
• Bass Driver    165 mm Advanced Fibre
• Treble Driver    25 mm Silk Dome
• Av Magnetically Shielded    No
• Sensitivity (1w @ 1m)    88 dB
• Recommended Amplifier Power    20-120 W
• Nominal Impedance    6 Ohms compatible
• Minimum Impedance    3.5 Ohms
• Frequency Response (+/-3dB)    45-30 kHz
• Crossover Frequency    2.0 kHz
• Height (on plinth & spikes)    345 mm
• Width    214 mm
• Depth (with grille)300+10 mm    300+10 mm
• Carton Size    520 X 360 X 420 mm
• Net Weight    8.3 kg / pc
• Finish    Black wood