The Mission 770 story takes in the BBC, Spendor and the drive to do better

[What Hi-Fi?]

We compare a pair of Mission 770 from 1980 with the current Award-winner to chart the progress of speaker design.

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[Keithdd]

I remember the original 70s well. They made impossible low frequency extension claims. More importantly, the British hifi press, in particular your Haymarket sister Hi Fi Answers recommended it month after month as nauseum as the be all and end all loudspeaker. Finally they decided to review it properly... and in one of the most famous whoops moments in hifi journalism history, decided it was no good. There was uproar. The magazine responded with lots of well um err as we always say do listen to it yourself before buying. This probably written about somewhere on the interweb...