Loudspeaker
Instruction Manual
English
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Most people
do not
associate loudspeakers
with complex music has become
the company's
signature.
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technology.
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of all the components
in the audio recognised by reviewers
and commentators
throughout
the world
reproduction
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the loudspeaker
proves the most difficult to in
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other aberrations
which occur
in
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of accuracy,
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coloration
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listening but in the long term Avariety of complex
‘steady-state‘
and dynamic
distortions lead
to
produce
fatigue and become
irritating. inaowcurateband unrealisliqtic
reproduction
of
music. Subjective terms
suc as ' oxiness', 'c
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'nasality',
'honk ness‘, etc. are
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generally used to
describe such
colorations.
Coioration is often
Once, people
bought loudspeakers
on the principle of ‘the bigger defined as ‘additive
distortion‘
but at MISSION
we go further and
the better‘.
The same
people were equally impressed by a contend that negative
distortions
can also exist.
This occurs in the
multitude
ofdrive units,
control knobs and other harmful gimmicks. case of
low
dynamic
systems
with poor
information retrieval
But things
have moved
on and today most people know better. capabilities. In such
cases the
lost information
cannot, obviously,
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distortion! We call
this ‘subtractive
distortion’.
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and eliminate
internal
standing waves.
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made of special
and rather
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between
the least
audible musical information and the
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optimised. These drivers are
inherently
very
smooth, have highly
Dynamic
range is
perhaps the single
most important parameter of controlled break-up modes and minimal
other
resonances.
concern
to our designers.
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