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Speaker pair Mission 796Floor Mission 796 - popular in the new line of the authoritative British producer. This is a good example of how modern technology is helping to create speakers with high sound characteristics, a beautiful and relatively inexpensive.
The main task that must be solved when designing speakers - the absorption of radiation rear diffuser, which leads to the appearance of standing waves in the internal volume. The casing speaker begins to resonate and brings extraneous color, from which it is very difficult to get rid of. In Mission 796 meter-high enclosure made of polymer multilayer Granitech with a granular structure, with properties similar to artificial stone. Each of the three layers is designed for absorption of vibrations of a certain frequency in the longitudinal and transverse direction. To further improve the damping sheets "Graniteka" linked viscous rubbery compound. And indeed, when rapping column walls seem to be completely monolithic.
Hull form is also very important - the faceplate has, the less the reflection and hence the phase interactions of the sound waves. Since the narrow-gauge solid plane woofer deliver impossible it carried on its side of the housing. Such a decision, by the way, allows you to experiment with the bass in a particular room, placing the speakers woofers in the center or to the side. 20-cm drivers intentionally installed close to the floor, to enhance the impact due to the early reflections. Diffuser head is made of a material Parawave, Mission specialists obtained during long-term experiments. This fabric of aramid fibers having the strength of steel at five times less weight. Its unique properties allow to minimize the bending deformation of the membrane at high amplitudes of the signal and thus reduce distortion. Woofer has a cast aluminum basket, and its voice coil is wound on a sleeve of Kapton - it retains its original shape even at very high temperatures.
The midrange and tweeter are combined into a module, the latter being installed at the lower part thereof. This design called IDG (Inverted Drive Geometry) ensures a more accurate time alignment of emitters and, accordingly, a fused sound. I'd add, HF dome is just at the level of a seated listener's ears, which significantly improves the localization of sources. Tweeter flange also serves as a heat sink, cooling the voice coil in the gap which is filled for greater reliability ferromagnetic fluid. In the center of the midrange has a "bullet", the leveling phase characteristics.
Fee crossovers with audiophile components mounted directly on the findings of the input terminals, thereby reducing the signal path. Internal wiring is made of oxygen-free copper wire.
For the best outcome from the floor speakers are mounted on massive cones with locknuts.
After a couple of listening tests, I decided to put the speakers bass drivers inside - with the bass became more composed, dramatically reduced reflections from the walls of the room. Lowercase informative presence subsonic components attached picture sound almost real scale. On recordings of symphonic works feels volume of the hall, all of its space. But the main advantage of Mission 796, of course, natural, absolutely live sound in the mid-band. Subtlest tonal shades correctly transmitted at any volume - from barely audible fragments to thunderous tutti. Yes, and the dynamics are also all right, in summing up the enormous power of the amplifier NAD M3, I did not notice distortion or compression - with room to make more artifacts than themselves column. The only negative, which is worth mentioning - the tendency conceal the smallest nuances of the sound image. Reverb seem a little shorter than usual, a little less background and minor details ... However, maybe you had to drive the speakers a little longer, so she warmed up.
But it's really nothing compared to how Mission 796 building stage. If you move the speakers at least one meter from the back wall, the sound space will go much further inland. On well-made record individual instruments can be heard as if from the next room.
Very good these speakers sound with a tube amplifier. Slightly sacrificing dynamics can obtain a higher resolution timbre in the absence of field or excessive contrast.
And the home theater in Mission 796 can be a powerful and compelling front, need only minimal support subwoofer. Of course, when watching movies they do not reveal the full potential, but for music programs will be very useful. |