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 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.
General description: Centre channel
Enclosure type: Closed box
Transducer complement: 2-way
Bass driver: 2 x 100mm advanced fibre
Treble driver: 25mm microfibre dome
AV magnetically shielded: Yes
Sensitivity (1W @ 1m): 87.5dB
Recommended amplifier power: 20-100w
Nominal impedance: 6 Ohms
Minimum impedance: 5.0 Ohms
Frequency Response (+/-3dB): 80-30kHz
Crossover frequency: 2.1kHz
Dimensions (mm)
Height (on plinth & spikes): 160mm
Width: 400mm
Depth (with grille): 200+10mm
Carton size: 500 x 310 x 280mm
Net weight: 5.8kg
Gross weight: 7.0kg/carton