Mission M73

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Mission M73

“The Mission M73 speakers are not designed to their...”

Written on: 25/02/2002 by John.

Good Points
For the price these are excellent all round speakers. They have a solid base and great treble. I listen to jazz music and the M73 really do perform but ................

Bad Points
Beware. Play these speaker at 75% of their power rating (75 watts) for a long duration of time and you will find yourself with a bill for £60 for 2 replacement low frequency units from Mission and that is fitting them yourself.

General Comments
The Mission M73 speakers are not designed to their power specification (100W RMS into a 8ohm load) in my opinion as play them loud (without distortion) and they will break up. This is displayed in a low frequency honking in the base driver. I would say the tweeters are up to the job yet as for the base drivers its back to drawing board Mission. If you don't play your music loud and don't intend to these may be for you.

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35783_Hi Fi Boy.'s Response to 13878_John.'s Review

Written on: 01/09/2002

If you have an inadequate amplifier & turn up the volume you will definitely blow ANY speaker. You should never go beyond the half way mark on your amp volume dial anyway. The speaker has a peak power of 100 watts which you will get without turning up the volume.

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40001_Unit.'s Response to 13878_John.'s Review

Written on: 26/09/2002

You'll find that it's your amplifier that's the weak point in your system. What's happening is the amp is clipping the output, the drivers can't react fast enough and therefore get damaged. This is one point to note with the M73's, their impedance can drop down to 6 ohms.

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62691_Ash.'s Response to 13878_John.'s Review

Written on: 05/01/2003

If you had spent the £60 you wasted on replacement parts on a better amp you would not be downing an excellent set of speakers! My set are 6months old with 200watts rms going in to them from a power amp! They kick! Where you have ran them at 75watts the voice coils have burnt out. Speakers need clean efortles power!! When a speaker is rated at 100watts rms it means that your amp should be at least 100 watts rms to run them properly! The m73's could easily take around 300watts before they blow! Anyway I hope you decide to upgrade your amp or you will shortly be seeing another bill from mission for parts.

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68494_Kelly.'s Response to 13878_John.'s Review

Written on: 27/01/2003

I was thinking about purchasing these speakers. My receiver is rated at 80 watts though (Denon avr1603).
Is that enough power as to not cause damage to anything?

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