Today, Mission is known as a specialist speaker manufacturer, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the early Eighties, it was a far more diverse brand that made all parts of the audio chain from turntables, tonearms and cartridges to CD players right through to speakers.
The company’s first amplifiers were hugely ambitious premium designs like the 776/777 pre/power combination, but it wasn’t long before it produced a more affordable, though hardly less distinctive, integrated design called the 778. The 778 only lasted a few years before its design was evolved into the first products of Mission’s then-new sub-brand, Cyrus.
