Mission QX-2 MKII

It’s seconds out, round two for Mission’s attractive standmounters

£349 The QX-2 have always been one of the more interesting-looking speakers at this price point and with this 2022 iteration, the aluminium top plate has been revised to bring extra rigidity. The two-way standmounter also gets the latest version of Mission’s DiaDrive bass/mid driver. The cone is made from an improved acrylic fibre material, and you can actually see those fibres glisten when light catches the speaker cone from certain angles. It’s surrounded by something Mission refers to as a “serrated acoustic damping frame”. That’s not there simply for visual effect; it is engineered to help scatter unwanted reflections coming off the cone and improve the purity of sound. For the MKII variants, the layout of the indents has been tweaked while tapered indentations have been added to help…

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