Does or did Mission make a cd player?

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Posted on March 27, 2000 at 20:49:21

Joe

Someone told me recently that Mission made a cd player (the DAD 7000, I believe). I thought Mission only made speakers. Is this true? If so, can anyone tell me about it--how old, its specs, build quality, etc, if anyone knows--this may have been a British-only unit.

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Yes. Many.

Werner

22:36:53 03/27/00

How does sound quality compare now?

Joe

11:16:48 03/28/00

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Yes. Many.

Werner

22:36:53 03/27/00

How does sound quality compare now?

Joe

11:16:48 03/28/00

Yes. Many., posted on March 27, 2000 at 22:36:53

Werner

Back in 1985 you had the Mission DAD-7000, essentially a
Philips CD-104 in Mission colours and with an add-on analogue filter.
It was tauted to be one of the first audiophile players,
together with the slightly older Meridian MCD. It used
the TDA1540 14 bit DAC, at 4 x oversampling.

Later came the TDA1541-based 16 bit PCM7000 and PCM4000,
both 'real' Mission machines.

At the time there was a funny dichotomy, the company making
Mission-branded turntables, loudspeakers and CD-players, and Cyrus-branded
amplifiers and tuner. Later on the CD-players moved over to Cyrus,
although there was another Mission-branded CD at around 1991 or
so. I forgot the type number, but it was based on a very cheap
Philips unit, and actually it was intended to be used
with a tiny add-on Mission DAC.
Could be that this pairing was named DAD5/DAC5.

All these things were available in Europe. The DAD7000 was
in the USA too, where it extracted things from the hifi press
like "all else is boat anchors".

How does sound quality compare now?, posted on March 28, 2000 at 11:16:48
Joe	Does it still sound "good" compared to newer cd players w/8X oversampling and 20 bit DACs? Or is it (and all older, first generation cd players), outclassed?

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Does or did Mission make a cd player?

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