PASSIVE SPEAKERS
MISSION 700
£1299 (pair) / mission.co.uk
It happened in the car industry a while back with the Mini, Beetle and Fiat 500 – and now it’s happening to the audio business. Especially where loudspeakers are concerned, companies are looking to their heritage when developing new products – and they seem to be going down a storm with customers. And of course, it doesn’t do any harm if you have a heritage as considerable as that of Mission.
These 700 standmounters represent the second time Mission has delved into its own past to produce a new speaker – and, just as with the 770 from earlier this year, this is nostalgia brought right up to date. Everything everyone always loved about the way the original 700 speaker looked – the main driver sitting above the offset tweeter, the gaping bass reflex port, the bright white front baffle and the rotten company logo – is present and correct on the new version.