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Mission M53
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Raymond.'s Review of Mission M53 Stereo Speakers

18th Jun 2003

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
Good Points

clean, bright and detailed sound.


Bad Points

a little weak in bass.


General Comments

A couple of months ago I was asked to recommend a pair of low-to-medium priced loud speakers to a friend, so I brought some CDs to a local stereo store. The first speaker came into my sight was Tannoy's Saturn S8, which came with dual 8 inch drivers and was much better than the other speakers I tried out before, such as JBL Northridge ND310II, Bose 601 & 701, PSB Image 5T, Klipsch RF5 & RF7, Infinity Alpha 50, and Polk Audio RTi100 & RTi150. When I turned around I saw a Mission m53, which was not impressive to me at all at the very beginning because of its strange design. But I still gave it a try since I listened to Mission 774 long time ago and I thought it was pretty good too. I was surprised when I threw Ravel 'Bolero', Richard Strauss 'Also sprach Zarathustra', Holst 'The planets', Sibelius 'Finlandia' and Wagner 'Walk renritt' in the CD player: the sound came out from the m53s was much cleaner and brighter than the Tannoy Saturn S8, and moreover, the sound field generated by the m53s was much wider and deeper, which made me feel like I was sitting in a front seat in a concert hall. Then I tried George Benson 'The Long and Winding Road', Diana Krall 'The Look of Love' and Prima 'Sing, Sing, Sing', and the reproduction of vocal was just amazing, while the sound from the band was very convincible and the bass was tight but smooth, unlike Bose, Klipsch, Infinity and Polk, which gave me a headache when playing drum and acoustic guitar.

So I took two pairs of m53s home for myself although I was not about to buy any speakers at the time. After about 100-hour kick-in, I could not be more satisfied when watching 'Tosca' (Kabaivanska/Domingo/Milnes), 'Rigoletto' (Wixell/Gruberova/Pavarotti), 'Cavalleria rusticana' (Obraztsova/Domingo/Bruson), 'Eugene Onegin' (Weikl/Kubiak/Burrows), Karajan's home video series on Sony and stage performances at the Met. The movies sounded excellent too on it, and the stunning sound from 'Gladiator', 'The Hunt for Red October', 'U-571', 'Enemy at the Gates' and 'Amadeus' was incredible. A little bit bass from a subwoofer would make the sound even better.

I am using a Yamaha RX-V2200 to drive four m53s, a Polk CS400i and a Polk CSi40, along with Technics SL-PD5, Sony DVP-NS725P and Toshiba SD-3750 CD/DVD players.

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