Pros: Excellent imaging and soundstage, nice neutral sound, well built and nicely designed, bass is clean and deep. Highs are somewhat laid back but have a crystal clear sound with decent extension.

Cons: Do not VERY loud however they get loud enough. Great for new(9??)9? I

I use them for surrounds and go very good for this job I have 4 of these

due to being not that big there very good for surround speakers

Great imaging, excellent sound when matched well. Buy it if you get a good deal.

Won’t get earth shattering loud.

Top notch imaging, Great clarity, can get to ok volumes. Good cabinet quality.

Can’t get crazy loud (but it is a bookshelf speaker), mostly plastic but that doesn’t take away from the sound, tweeters are a little later back but this can also be a pro.

Good full sound. High range is slightly limited. Base is decent. Sound reproduction is good. Great value for the investment. Definitely worth the purchase.

High range in sound slightly limited.

Bought these on ebay for £14. I really don't understand how they have 5 star ratings. I will likely just throwing them in the bin. The sound is horrible. No real bass or depth, tinny twitter. I took one a part to see why. The drivers are cheapest of cheap. Plastic housing, no depth to the magnet and minimal sound insulation. The crossover is very cheaply made.

I don't recommend them. I can't even see myself using any of the components for some other project. Don't waste your money on this. I also have a pair of Cambridge Audio - SX-50 they are thousand times better then the mission 700.

Mission 700 just got them for a small 20 euro :) They look new and they sound great, just like an other revieuw here. A hint to high end. If you see these for sale , and they in a good shape, they are worth the money.

I just picked up a pristine pair of these 700's for a mere $25.00 on a local internet buy and sell site. They were listed too cheap to let them pass by. I have them connected to a 60 watt Cambridge Audio integrated amp with Cambridge Audio 840c CD player at the front end. I am blown away by these little boxes....they image and throw a huge soundstage very similar to the Spica TC50's I owned and loved for many years. The soft dome tweeter makes a huge difference in smoothing out the top end of the recordings I have listened to in recent years via metal tweeters that have become the norm . For sure setting them up on proper stands well away from walls adds to the 3D imaging. Bass is ok , not great, however these speakers more than hint at true high end sound.
Back in the middle 80's I was turned on to British integrated amps and "bookshelf" speakers and spent hours on end enjoying music with out mortgaging my house for equipment.........these Mission 700's put me right back in that saddle....love it !!!

it is fn awesome :D

Bass is taught and has good extension for size
Ability to reproduce Dance and Electric music is very good indeed
Jazz music is reproduced suprisingly well for a speaker this cheap and small

The high end is albeit light, airy, and un-fatiguing, somewhat lifeless and dull
I think these speakers are fussy about placement and I'll be playing around with that side of things soon to see what can be done.

Purchased these of eBay for a meagre £30.

Dance music (Creeps (Your giving me) Freaks) is repoduced faithfully, with rich, clear, well defined bass which extends further than one would expect for a speaker of this size. It's hard to judge the ajility of these speakers with Dance music, as Dance by it's nature is a bit all over the place anyway. But faithfully reproduced with these speakers. 85%

Jazz (Pat Metheny) is reproduced with good accuracy, with clear seperation between the bass and trebble. There is a very small amount of "Boomy" bass with certain very low stringed instuments however I believe this can be tackled with better speaker placement. It is clear that these speakers were not designed with Jass reproduction in mind but they make a very good effort nonetheless. 70%

Female vocals (Norah Jones) is a plus point for these speakers. The airy qualities of her voice are protrayed very well with these speakers, althuogh I am left with the feeling that there is more life in her voice than these speakers suggest. The piano and stringed instruments are portrayed with very good tonal balance in her "Come away with me" classic, and these speakers allow these intruments to be present with the exact amount of balance between the vocals and the backing band, with neither over powering the other. Good show. 78%

Electric (Enya (Only Time Collection)) is where these speakers really shine. Immediately at the very first note of her "Watermark" piece the notes are portrayed in a beautifully warm, and inviting manner, with the soft vocals in the bacground melding with the piano perfectly. I was a little shocked that these speakers were capable of such subtle accuracy. The ability for these speakers to faithfully reproduce the femail voice and their suprisingly good base response allows Enya's Boadicea piece to be brought to life. Very warm throughout this song. Her classic Sail Away was another piece where the femail voice was brought very much to life, but once again I am left with the feeling that there is a very small room for improvement in this area. 92%

Classic (Gustav Holst - The Planets) a reasonable effort. There is a certain amount of subtlety to these pieces and there is definitely good dynic range. I feel there may be something missing from the top end here, possibly that the tweeter takes over long after the bass driver has reached it's -3dB point? It's definitely listenable and enjoyable but somewhat lifeless. Again this may be to do with speaker placement so I shan't be too judgmental, I feel these speakers can reproduce classical music fairly well but if this is what you intend to listen to above any other genre it may be adviseable to look elsewhere. 65%


All in all a 78% score by my book, which I think is nothing to be sniffed at for something that cost £30!!

I would put these on a par with the modern equivelant Mission MV2 speakers; which stands to reason given the MV2 are indented as a direct replacement for these.

I will soon be testing these with a NAD 3020 amplifier (currently using a DENON UD-M31) and post back if this classic amp is able to spring more life into these speakers ability to reproduce classical music.

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Denon/Mission SC-M50