Description
Mission Floor Standing Speakers – SX3 – Black (Pair)
Mission SX3 are compact floor standing speaker systems, designed for work in small rooms. These are the two-way speaker systems with bass-reflex and two small ports, placed on the back wall. The location of speakers is almost symmetrical that allows achieving better polar pattern. These are two bass heads of relatively small diameter (130 mm) with the diffusers made of aluminum alloy and an inch tweeter with extended up to 40 kHz frequency band. Special attention was paid to minimization of internal resonances of the body – for this they have non-parallel side walls and the massive lower base plate effectively isolates the speaker systems from the floor surface.
The sound of Mission SX3 is incredibly smoothly and perfectly adjusted in registers. It is extremely organized, with brisk dynamics and wide frequency range. A small priority is given to the edges of working band, but this feature won’t be very noticeable in damped rooms. Resolution is generally high, there are no problems with detailing even at the work with audiophile phonograms. Bass register is moderately deep and natural in relief, critical side-tones of bass-reflex ports were not noticed. Sound stage is close to the listener and slightly increased in scale; meanwhile, there are no claims to the accuracy of positioning of the images.
Features
- A 2 Way bass reflex bookshelf speaker system.
- Mission SX2 deploys titanium domed tweeter.
- The titanium gives astonishing purity and detail yet can reach frequencies of up to 40,000Hz.
- The composite aluminium cones are tonally matched to the treble unit for smooth and consistent sound.
- Designed for use in a number of different locations, including close to a rear wall, the SX2s aren’t nearly as fussy as most speakers are with regards to room placement.
The Technology Behind SX Series
For the SX Series Mission engineers pulled out all the stops to design brand new drivers that incorporate the latest research in composite metallic material technology.
To generate a wide bandwidth driver that reproduces all frequencies from 30Hz to 4KHz, a span of 7 octaves, is no mean feat. Nevertheless that is the target that Mission engineers set when designing the SX MC bass/midrange driver.
In order to accomplish this astonishing span of the critical audio band, a new cone composite was investigated incorporating the very best in fibre and metal substrates. In the SX MC driver a fibre cone, utilising a selected combination of pulp and aramid particles, is bonded to a precision formed alloy ‘voice plate’ which forms the front face of the speaker.
This composite cone reacts with astonishing precision to the musical waveform delivered to it. The fibre and alloy composite possesses just the right level of rigidity and self damping to quell break up modes and damp unwanted resonances whilst ensuring pistonic cone movement for low distortion. As you would expect from such a rigid cone, bass performance is outstanding, but what will be a surprise is the lucidity and realism delivered throughout the midrange.
This is all thanks to a micro-dynamic performance that reveals every item of musical detail that is often lost in the ‘noise’ created by drivers that work in a non-linear fashion. To further enhance the dynamic performance of the SX MC driver it is housed in a cast-aluminium shell that is mounted securely on the die-cast front baffle.
In itself the die-cast front baffle would provide an ideal base for the SX MC driver but, even here, Mission engineers went one better. The die-casting is set into a multi-layer cabinet sub-baffle with a system that securely clamps the driver to both, thus ensuring that the desired mechanical stability is fully achieved. In this way the full dynamic range of the music signal is faithfully reproduced to thrilling effect.
Normally mounting a treble unit on this composite baffle system would expose it, too, to the extreme forces generated by the SX MC motor system. But here Mission engineers have been even more cunning.
The SX TD treble unit is, in itself, a work of art. An extremely light and rigid Titanium dome is fitted with a phase correcting plate that surrounds the periphery of the dome to ensure a smooth and extended response from 1 kHz to beyond the levels of audibility. This assembly is then housed in an elastomer chamber that isolates it from low frequency vibration while still providing the mechanical stability necessary for superb dynamic performance.
Combining the SX MC and TD drivers is a crossover that easily enables the seamless performance necessary for the SX loudspeaker to behave as a coherent source. Thanks to the smooth, wide bandwidth responses of the drivers, it is only necessary to create the correct electrical filtering to provide a phase perfect and ruler-flat crossover transition. Then hundreds of hours of painstaking listening refine and tune each element of the SX speaker’s performance to give the breath-taking results you would expect from a Mission product.
Finally each speaker is hand veneered by Mission cabinet makers and lovingly polished to a top quality furniture finish. The Piano Lacquer option reveals the full colour and grain of the figured real wood veneers by using seven individual coats of lacquer, each polished and buffed to mirror finish. The result is that Mission SX loudspeakers look as beautiful as they sound.
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