It’s half the C1100, as revealed by a shufti at the happy owner’s profile.
gotcha, its the Controller bit…
It’s quite big, so very likely the Fat Controller.
First opportunity in weeks to listen to music properly: enjoying Lana Del Ray’s latest on the Rev’ Sig’ DC4Ts - very enjoyable. Extra acoustic treatment courtesy of our son’s birthday cards😉
Also my office system: over the summer I built two upward firing passive ‘bass modules’. They perform better than expected - I did a lot of research/box calculations before the build. Actually only need 1 in the office so have a spare. The very clear but bass-light AVA Media Maestro 50 powers the Mission 731is and the 100wpc Nobsound G2 (yes really) ‘mono-bloc’ with adjustable active crossover powers the bass module. The upward firing and easily moved passive works better in this space than the downward firing sub I used before.
Great for a rare change to see a pair of speakers proper off the wall Alex. Enjoy Peter
Great record HH I have a much loved but slightly battered original it was because of this record that Paul Weller asked her to guest on TSC debut where she sang the beautiful Paris Match.
Many thanks - with certain speakers in particular it really does make a very big difference to their performance.
Yes, that’s a fantastic song. Who would have thought Tracey would go from singing in a wardrobe to singing with Paul Weller. If you do t have it, her album Solo - Songs and Collaborations is superb. A lot of stuff that people may know, and a lot of stuff they very likely don’t.
Know I don’t but will look out for it now. Everything But The Girl’s Walking Wounded which was heavily influenced by electronic dance music was an LP we played a lot when we met that and her stuff with Massive Attack just suits her voice and tone beautifully.
Your speakers are calling for some Gaias!
That is a blast from the past. In years gone by I had a pair of Mission 731i in the kitchen, a pair as surround rears, and a pair of 731LEs in the office and later on my desk at Uni.
And if you asked me now, I don’t think I can recall what happened to a single pair of them.
In the 70s I always wanted either Rogers or Mission speakers.
Cheers James
I’ll second that!
An earlier self went with the Rogers LS7’s.
Lovely speakers
I still have my LS7s. They were/are good speakers. They’re upstairs in a bedroom system, powered by a Nait 1. Since this is a systems pictures thread, here’s a picture of the left speaker.
…then we want to see Nait 1…
This pair were my first ever speakers - purchased when I was 16. Granted they are not the most ‘Hi-Fi’ of speakers but they just gel sound wise, particularly music with a strong rhythm/beat - call it a youthful enthusiasm.
They are amplifier dependent though and sound very different depending upon the amp feeding them. They work well with Arcam and the current AVA (despite the amps having very different characters). They sounded flat with the original budget Cambridge I bought them with and aggressive in the treble with a Yamaha Pianocraft system.
They are front ported and slim front to back but despite this, they sound best with the rear placed 20cm + from the wall and acoustically isolated (as much as possible) from the desk.
Indeed I sold many of them when I worked in the trade in my “yoof”. They certainly flew off the shelves with entry level Arcam and Denon. They sounded amazing on a Nait3. But they needed a lot of air around them and very tall open frame stands to sound their best. The expensive Mission stands were not such a good match.
I feel like the 90s were Mission’s heyday. Like Heybrook and Epos, Mission haven’t been to their same level of quality or cost performance since the turn of the millennium.