Any Cerwin Vega lovers out there

thesurfer
thesurfer Posts: 574
edited September 2011 in 2 Channel Audio
They were my first real speakers,, Any one else had, or still have a pair, Your thoughts on them,
Not an Audiophile, just a dude who loves music, and decent gear to hear it with.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited September 2011
    Not a fan, but to each his own.
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  • fbm211
    fbm211 Posts: 1,488
    edited September 2011
    Good college party speakers.
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited September 2011
    thesurfer wrote: »
    They were my first real speakers,,,

    Maybe you think that because you have yet to own your first real speakers.:wink:

    Just jackin' ya, mate.:tongue:

    In all seriousness, though, I owned a pair of AT-15's, and luckily for me, my eardrums survived intact!

    They lasted one week in my system before I gave them away. I'm not sure how much of a "gift" it was for the recipient, but it was a free disposal for me!:biggrin:
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,081
    edited September 2011
    I used to have some AT-12's and D-7's in the garage rig. Chest pounding bass with when driven with big amps!
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited September 2011
    Conradicles wrote: »
    I used to have some AT-12's and D-7's in the garage rig. Chest pounding bass with when driven with big amps!

    Now that I think about it, mine were 12's too, not 15's.
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited September 2011
    My buddy has a vintage pair that are really fun to listen to in his man cave.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited September 2011
    I remember going to buy some pot when I was younger and the dealer had a huge set blasting 2 pac and I thought they were so cool and high end lol
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited September 2011
    Fan? That'd be a negatory. Boom and sizzle loudspeakers (most of them, at any rate).
    Needless to say, that' doesn't mean there isn't a pair lurking here.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited September 2011
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2011
    Not a fan. But good for a party. Why blow up my SDA's when some AT-15's can boom all night.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited September 2011
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    Not a fan. But good for a party. Why blow up my SDA's when some AT-15's can boom all night.

    Plus they've got red surrounds... how cool is that?
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2011
    MMMMMMMM Red Surrounds!!!!!!!!!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,447
    edited September 2011
    well let the bashing begin:smile: My first speaker i ever went so far as to get a loan for CV D7's. In the end i made some subs out of voice of the theater boxes 15" Eminence long throw woofers,sledgehammer inductors and made them sub/sat to my D7's subs handed off to the D7's @ 90hz. The D7's were modified in that the tweeter was a Peerless brand very smooth silk tweet. plus i re-capped the XO on the CV D7. for 25yrs i was in love....concert level Db's for sure and for the most part very flat response
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2011
    So you made FrankenVega's? Sounds interesting, Very interesting.
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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited September 2011
    DSkip wrote: »
    What you did last week doesn't concern us. :rolleyes:
    HA,HA, Now thats a crowd pleaser,
    Not an Audiophile, just a dude who loves music, and decent gear to hear it with.
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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited September 2011
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    Maybe you think that because you have yet to own your first real speakers.:wink:

    Just jackin' ya, mate.:tongue:

    In all seriousness, though, I owned a pair of AT-15's, and luckily for me, my eardrums survived intact!

    They lasted one week in my system before I gave them away. I'm not sure how much of a "gift" it was for the recipient, but it was a free disposal for me!:biggrin:
    Bravo, yeah, for what they cost, i really thought i had something, Great for partying, and they fit that bill, got em when i was 16, sold them a year later and got some JBL,s
    Not an Audiophile, just a dude who loves music, and decent gear to hear it with.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited September 2011
    Good garage or shop speakers. I have a pair of D-3's ( I think they are) out in my shop. Seen a chipmunk scurry out of one of the port holes the other day. Think he has a nest in there maybe.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited September 2011
    halo71 wrote: »
    Think he has a nest in there maybe.

    Speaker pros think of that as "damping". Lowers Fs.
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  • TouchOfEvil
    TouchOfEvil Posts: 967
    edited September 2011
    I still have an entire 5 speaker setup. It's not in use anymore but i still have them. Forget the model number but they had 8" subs with built in amps in each tower with i believe a 5.25 mid and a 1" high. I compared them to the rti and rtia lineup from Polk and honestly they sound an awful lot like those two lines. Slightly less sparkle from the highs which to me was a good thing. Certainly had more bass with powered drivers. The mids sounded good but on some tracks didn't bring quite as much depth but were pretty close.
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited September 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Plus they've got red surrounds... how cool is that?

    Hot Pink Baby!! :biggrin:

    I used to have some for parties, big 15"er's, I can't remember the #, detail...nah, soundstage...nope. Fun? Hell Yeah!!!! :smile:
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  • Mon40CSMM10
    Mon40CSMM10 Posts: 161
    edited September 2011
    Any reason they put the mid and tweet off center from the woofer on some of the older Cerwin-Vega speakers? Makes for a very asymmetrical looking speaker with the grills off, even though the bass is excellent.

    I really wish Polk Audio would make a home stereo speaker with the eqivalent bass presence of a CV speaker, but with same mid and tweeter sound of a Polk speaker. Or do they already have something like that?
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited September 2011
    In all fairness to Polk. Polk bass is 'tight', 'controlled', and 'fast'. Whereas CV bass lacks all those qualities but has a lot of 'boom' and is very efficient. It's all a question of music reproduction and quality.

    I remember auditioning a set of two way CVegas against some Bose 301s and some dB Plus (a house brand in the 80s probably made by Energy or a sub of it). And the dbs were what ended up in my apartment--they were only a 6" two way but a much better engineered and better sounding speaker.

    Having said that though, the 15" CVs were the party speakers at many colleges back in the day...and there are good 'reasons' for that!

    cnh
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  • Gulfstrings
    Gulfstrings Posts: 313
    edited September 2011
    It's been a long time, but I had a pair of "big" CVs. Can't remember much about them but money was tight, they were big and rocked the old farmhouse we were living in outside Bloomington. I just did a quick search and found they're still in business. http://www.cerwinvega.com/ Perhaps their corporate mantra is, "As long as there are college kids, we'll always have a market."
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited September 2011
    I have a pair of Cerwin Vegas VS-100s If I want to get loud and aggressive I swap out the AR-18's and match them Vegas up with my AR-58's. I can rock the house and pretty much the whole neighborhood, if the neighbors get somewhat loud with the pop station crap they blare out of there bom box, I just give them a good dose of some megadeth pumping out those Vegas that seems to do the trick. I love my Polk stuff and for good non agressive stuff like Steely Dan or Supertramp the Polks sound the best, but when it comes to loud aggressive stuff the Vegas serve thier purpose.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited September 2011
    C-V's generally sound like a bag of cats.

    That being said I have a gorgeous pair of AT-12 or something like that (12" three-way) that I'd love to part with.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,447
    edited September 2011
    Gulfstrings wrote: »
    It's been a long time, but I had a pair of "big" CVs. Can't remember much about them but money was tight, they were big and rocked the old farmhouse we were living in outside Bloomington. I just did a quick search and found they're still in business. http://www.cerwinvega.com/ Perhaps their corporate mantra is, "As long as there are college kids, we'll always have a market."

    yes still in business BUT they have been sold a few times since the good ol days and now in Florida instead of the home base of simi valley california....

    which Bloomington you talking about? Illinois?
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