Mission DAD-7000R (c. 1985)
Almost everything known about the Mission DAD-7000R comes from a single extended review in Audio magazine, December 1985. It was a CD player, and by that review's account it was one of the better ones of the era. Audio (December 1985, p.78) called it "one of the finest-sounding players I've heard," credited its low-noise analog stages, and noted that the design used oversampling and digital filtering with perfect phase linearity.
It had one unusual feature, or rather a missing one. The DAD-7000R had no rear-panel output jacks. It shipped with a fixed three-foot output cable instead, which Audio (December 1985, p.74) felt could cause both sonic and installation problems. The same review said Mission had packed in just about every programming and music-accessing feature you could want, plus a wireless remote control.
The test bench backed up the praise. Audio found the frequency response close to flat. The noise floor was so low that an A-weighted S/N ratio could not be measured. The reviewer guessed it exceeded 110 dB (December 1985, p.76), well above the published spec.
Known specifications as published by Mission and cited in Audio (December 1985, p.72):
- Frequency response: 2 Hz–20 kHz ±0.3 dB
- THD: 0.003% at 1 kHz
- Dynamic range: 96 dB
- S/N ratio: 96 dB
- Channel separation: 94 dB at 1 kHz
- 20 programmable selections
Beyond the Audio review, documentation on this model is thin.
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