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Category: Loudspeakers
Title: Mission 751 Freedom	views:4847
Mission 751 Freedom In 1980 ish Mission made the 751 and sold it at a retail price of £250 the press and public loved it and for two years on a row it won the best speaker under £500 award in What hifi. Every mag rated it very highly even Hifi World (one of the most respected mags in the world at the time) reviews from the public show it to be a much loved speaker that does little if anything wrong. In the mid 80s everyone wanted a floor standing speaker. Sales of mission 751 lost ground fast with a final throw of the dice Mission upgraded the 751 (making it Rear ported, Stronger cabernet, Sweeter tweeter , Bigger bass cone) The new speaker was called the 751 Freedom and sold for a unbelievable low price of £350 the press ignored it,they had given the 751 so many awards it was becoming boring and now floor standards had 90% of the market so the press had to review them (many good standmounts/bookself speakers got ignored around this time) Coming back to the Mission 751 Freedom what we get is a outstanding small stand mounted speaker we get Sweet , Fast , Musical, True to life and the two hardest things for a stand mount of this size we get open and we get the correct bass umph. IMO the Mission 751 freedom is one of the best speaker mission have ever made and one of the last speakers they made that was designed just to play music. The 751 are 2 a penny (and still a great buy) the 751 Freedom is a lttle harder to find (but not so many people know about them and they are a fantastic buy) Considering inflation considering that it was under priced in the first place and considering other speakers I have heard at various price points buying new today the mission 751 freedom would be in the £450 to £600 price bracket. I got the Mission 751 Freedom in mint for £90. Ps. I do not know the link but cyrus seem to have sold the very same speaker but with a cyrus badge ? Please do not take any of this as fact review is made up of a small amount of press snipets and a very large amount of my own opinion.

Review submitted: 2008/2/9

Category: Amplifiers Receivers
Title: Musical Fidelity A3.2 integrated	views:444
I recently purchased a Mudical Fidelity A3.2 integrated exdemo for £535 on ebay. Specs wise its 115W into 8ohms - or about double that into my 4ohm Dynaudio Audience 82s. No sign of strain from either party! The circuitry is dual mono (one can see each transformer through each of the left and right vents on the amp's lid. Which aids channel separation. As its turned out, this was a ludicrously good deal! To my ears it offers both totalitarian control over my speakers (power, and timing) on one hand and a breathtaking neutrality on the other. The most naturalistic sounding amp I've heard at it's original £1000 price tag, let alone £535! The A3.2 replaced in my set up one of its smaller predecessors - the Musical Fidelity X-A2 (a cracking little piece of kit which found a new home with a trusted mate of mine - let him have it for a bargain 170 notes!). Both are unmistakedly Mu-Fi in their neutral transparency, but the sonic bonuses that come with the additional power and superior circuitry of of the A3.2 well worth the upgrade. I should point out here that 'power' is not (just) about loudness - it's about the amp exerting an iron fist over every movement the speaker cones and domes make. At any volume level. This has an obvious impact on all aspects of the sound: accuracy, timing, macrodynamics, microdynamics, etc.,... When the Musical Fidelity A3.2 says "Jump!" my Audience 82s jump, and don't do so again until they're bloomin' well told to! DocFoster P.S. If you do go ebay shopping - check the sellers feedback scores (the vast majority of ebay sellers are trustworthy with positive feedback scores at least in the high 90%). I've had only good experiences on ebay, but I suppose given that there are humans at the other end of the internet, there must be some crooks out there.

Review submitted: 2005/9/23