Thought I'd share an experience of Mission 753 speakers. I bought a new pair in '95 and kept them until in about 2003 I saw a pair of Royd RR2's for sale which I bought. I thought they sounded much better than the 753's so the Missions got retired into their boxes where they remained. Recently I gave them to my daughter and her boyfriend when they moved out. Tom told me they sounded a bit scratchy so I had a listen and they sounded awful. Got in touch with Mission and they told me the drivers were no longer available. So then I asked for any info they could supply on the mid-bass units - we had ran them with the tweeters dis-connected and one mid-bass unit was clearly failing also. Nothing back from Mission. Then I looked at Willy's HiFi and had a good chat with (I presume) Willy who told me over 95% of the tweeters would've failed and they had replacements. He also suggested a Monacor mid-bass replacement so I bought two so I could put in a pair that did match rather than splurging on all eight. We installed them on Sunday evening and the speakers sounded fantastic - I think the tweeters may have been failing back in 2003 when I thought the RR2's sounded better. Anyway, the main point of this is to give credit to Willy's HiFi and to encourage anyone with these speakers to consider driver replacement if theirs fail. Lamentable that Mission ignored the request for driver info - is it unreasonable for an owner to ask for this data if the manufacturers are not able to sell replacement drivers??
Actually, the tweeters in the RR2's failed a couple of years back and Willy sold me replacements for those too - great outfit!
Actually, the tweeters in the RR2's failed a couple of years back and Willy sold me replacements for those too - great outfit!
