I’ve been a DJ since the early 80’s our first sound system, we bought from a band that broke up at a gig in Baltimore MD. Got it real cheap because they were mad and fighting over money. I got two V35’s and two of those Earthquake EL-36 Subwoofers. Plus two Peavy 800 amps and a two way crossover. I’ve upgraded the amps , but the Vega’s are still rocking. I’ve never had them let me down, and I’ve never been to a show where anybody sounded better, or louder. I’ll never let these Cerwin-Vega’s go. I ❤️ my Cerwin-Vega’s!
@@garycook5125 You point out a common mistake. Apostrophe s ('s) is possessive while the s (s) by itself is plural. That also years, as in "I attended college in the 1980s."
I bought a pair of AT-15 speakers back in the 1990's and they are still the best sounding speakers I ever owned. Had a crossover in one of them bite the dust in 2011 but got it replaced. That is the only problem I have had with them and they are still going strong to this day. I will never give them up because they are excellent speakers that can handle a high wattage receiver.
I get nothing but compliments on my DJ rig every time I use them. Two 21” folded horns (sometimes 4 21’s) and the CVP 152’s on top. Clarity,loudness, and wide dynamics. And vigorously loud clear and deep bass!
Their contribution to the sound reinforcement industry cannot be said enough. The Earthquake series of folded horn loaded units and their descendents...legends in the industry, imitated by everyone ever since. Nothing throws bass louder and farther than those...
@ruikazane5123 To amateur DJ's the Cerwin Vegas were popular. However, In the pro audio world the Earthquake horn loaded subs were known as the one note wonders, and no one used them due to the overtones and lack of clean uncolored bass. Danley Sound Labs, Bassboss, and Meyer have made the Cerwins obsolete. Danley Sound horn loaded subs are superior to Cerwin Vega in very metric. EAW , EV and JBL have made much much much more contribution to the world of pro sound than Cerwin Vega and it is not even close Cerwin Vega Earthquake subs are not rider friendly either. They will cost you clients and gigs. The earthquake is not called the one note wonder for nothing
As a Rep for CV I met Gene on a tour of the factory in the mid '70's. He hated dome drivers. Laughed at them. To make fun of them he cut a basketball in half and glued each half to 2 woofers as dome woofers.
I went to a party when I was in junior high in 1986 and the DJ used CV AT-12s. I was so awed by how loud and hard they hit. The beautiful wood cabinet and red surrounds caught my eyes. I vowed that when I become and adult and have money, I will buy a pair for myself. Nearly 40 years later I haven't bought a pair. lol Partly because they are huge and I don't have much space, and the other reason being the newest ones I can buy don't have the same build quality like they did back then. Older classic ones are often beat up and needs reconing. I guess I'll just leave that memory behind.
They are not that big at all. I'm looking at mine right now, they are next to my VS120's (bigger) and my D5's ( a little smaller). I'm 61. Nothing like reliving your youth for a few hundred bucks. Highly recommend it, you'll have a great time and grin- ALOT.
I love this series of company histories. You have a real knack for finding old advertising and photos. How about doing the story on some old musical instrument electronics companies, like Sunn or Acoustic Control?
My buddy worked as customer service manager at Cerwin Vega in los Angeles. They were actually making speakers there. I got a whole bunch of speakers for cost of materials. I still have my CLS15s although the amp died and I replaced it with a modern plate amp.
I love them since my friend in the neighborhood bought 2x12 for his car audio system back in the late 90s. Love how it produced the tight and solid low end compared to Rockford Fosgate :)
I had an 18' Stroker woofer in my home system with a custom crossover. When I worked in retail we sold tractor trailer loads of the A123 speakers. They were LOUD and affordable. The best of the early speakers were the S1. Later when I worked as a sales rep I sold the car audio systems.
When owned by Gibson Guitars Cerwin-Vega made great music speakers for home and professionally. Recently acquired by Chinese Holding Co. put the future of Cerwin-Vega in question. When I was in college in the 90's, needing to upgrade the stereo in my Ford Escort I said screw it and bought a pair of Cerin-Vega Tower 3 way speakers with 10 inch woofers. Fit perfect in the hatchback. Small amp pushing maybe 40-50 watts still cranked out the tunes with plenty of bass. Cerwin Vega speakers at the time were 6 ohm, so made powering them easier. I still believe dollar for dollar home audio beats car audio products. Especially speakers. Maybe it's the cabinets?
How many of us audionerds had home speakers in the back of their cars! In the early 80s I had two Fisher 8" 2-ways in the back of my Subaru hatchback. And my friend had two Realistic Mach Ones strapped into the back seat of his Impala. Holy hell!
Pa, home audio manufacturers do much better stuff than the regular todays grade car audio bs, only subwoofers are purpose built and therefore different than home audio/pa stuff, just one look at the ts parameters will clear all And the best of all? I only use a car audio subwoofer in my car, i got pa/home audio gear for my front stage and for the measly price of not even 500€ for the materials and speakers i got a sweet 3 way system, while my last car had double the budget and half the speakers, because i didnt know how to read and was stupid/blinded by "car audio" bs, now i know much better in what to buy
Currently using two of the CV EL-36D Earthquake 18" folded horn subs in my professional sound system. Big and heavy, but great subs for outdoor events.
I had a pair of "S1" LOUD speakers - which featured a gas bag and 6th order bass reflex alignment using an outboard under-damped 2nd order highpass filter which peaked ~6dB / Q=2 at fb then rolled off somewhat below fb as to not waste power fluttering the woofer. That C-V series and EV's Interface series were about the only speakers to make use of the technique. It still makes good sense and a woofer by numbers should have a Qts of ~0.312 or a bit lower for 6th order reflex. I also had a pair of B36 and my Peavey W-bin was loaded with a C-V 18 which was used for bass guitar. A 3-way 12" woofer - 6" midrange and horn tweeter like S1 would make a good DIY speaker these days.
WOW! not sure what speaker system my dad had( seriously doubt they were CVs) but do remember watching "Earthquake" at home and it was simulcasted. I remember CV out in Chatsworth Ca. Believe they were on Topanga Canyon. Harman-Kardon was there as well..
Glad I kept mine, when I bought them at Circuit City in the 80’s they were on sale for $700, still a lot of money then, but since I still use them I figure only about $20/year!
The sound company I worked for in the 1990s brought disco to Los Angeles. They also sold 8% of everything Cerwin-Vega manufactured. To think Universal was going to use *shakers* under all of the seats. The "Stroker" which had dual spiders was used in a club in downtown Los Angeles. Fantasia Club in the Bonaventure Hotel. The DJs had an unofficial competition to see what they could knock off the shelves in the gift shop next door. 😈
I sold audio in the late '70s. For a time, we sold Cerwin-Vegas. We hated them. We called them "Cerwin-Vulgars". We also made up a slogan: "We couldn't make them better, so we made them louder." I will say one thing about them: They were indestructible.
This sounds like the narrator from the Avia Guide To Home Theater DVD. Oh, and I used to have two 8" CV subs in my car in a bandpass box back in the day. Over 125dB with a little Punch 75 amp.
I bought an old 1970's Acoustic brand folded horn cabinet with a 18" Cerwin-Vega speaker in it. It reads about 2.67 ohms. Does anybody know if it is safe to use a 4 ohm bass guitar amp with this?
I bought a set of dual 15 PA speakers and blew the tweets out. When I took them apart I wasn't impressed with the drivers. Chinese junk. But the good side was it didn't cost much to replace them. It was my fault they blew though. Lesson learned. I took the blown voice coils to my land lords and set them in different places in the kitchen and you can imagine my entertainment watching him search for that burning smell 😅😅😅
His sourname was Czerwiński and his parents were Polish. If he had Irish, French, German or Italian ancestor everyone would emphasize it. But in this case: "son of imigrants" and that's all.
Very good video, but the new home speakerlines really look bad. Try to look at what JBL! And others are doing, and i bet if Cerwin Vega made a revamped D series for 2025 it would be very successful.
they use to be great home and car audio in 70s/90s then got sold to china /the drivers are not as good as they use to be . i have had over 300 of their driver from 18 strokers for car audio /and home audio/ i was running them when most ran kicker.but now they are just another chinese cheap driver. try the new ones they dont last////
I have been in and around the audio business, both for the professional world and the audiophile world since 1968. At NO TIME has Cerwin-Vega ever been known for quality or any innovations; compared to the industry giants: Electro-Voice, Altec Lansing, JBL, B&C, Klipsch and so many more. They were ONLY known for producing a BIG exagerated Bass sound...anything but High Fidelity! And let's all remember those red/orange FOAM surround drivers that ALL rotted out 5+ years after being purchased! Cheap JUNK is all they were. Much like BOSE CRAP!!!!
that's partially true. they weren't as refined as other brands. but the foam surrounds lasted about 25 years and can be easily replaced for about $20. I have a 1988 set of AT15s that I bought used about 10 years and refoamed them. they still work fine. I have a set I bought new in 1996 and they're still fine.
Never been known for any innovations? I'd have to disagree. Gene was an accomplished engineer, and lead a lot of the pack you mentioned. Massive tactile bass in a public venue, Gene was there first. And it's everywhere now. Dual woofer spiders, Gene was there first. Now they're everywhere. Plenty with ribbon transducers. Coaxial speakers. Compression drivers. Gas bags in speakers to increase volume. Both under his name, and under Cerwin vega, He had quite a few patents on things many have built on. Plus he innovated quite a bit with amplifier design. But the extent that Gene pioneered quite a bit of the world of audio, is on the web for those who want to look. A lot of his speakers were known as "party speakers", and when you heard them at college parties with 50 watt amps trying to push 200, yeah, anything would sound terrible. But Cerwin also had quite a few high end models, comparitively rare. A Lot were only made overseas. Gene did a lot around Europe. Dali used his drivers in their top models, etc. There's a lot to Cerwin Vega that you aren't going to run across unless you do a little digging. Myself, I've had more than a few higher end and esoteric speakers through my hands, and over decades tried to check out all the legacy brands, touted models, etc. I've had many hundreds of models. And maybe 10 years ago, after hearing all those other models, my first pair of Cerwins literally dropped my jaw. Working properly, and powered properly, Vegas are a force to be reckoned with.
@@MichaelBeeny Well for professional installations, if you have the right sound man, most of the good stuff will sound great. I worked for a pro sound company in the 1990s which had been around since 1971. A lesson learned on how the (wrong kind) of reflection in a room can impede loudspeakers and the system. A pair of Cerwin-Vega dual DMTs, which were Gene's 12" cone driver and 2 Foster 4" horn tweeters. They were installed in a patio area of a German owned night club in DTLA. I had heard the DMTs in many places and knew they weren't the best. After my boss made the final EQ I could not believe my ears as to how good they now sounded. Mind you we also sold Bag-End which is time aligned, as well as Celestion SR series of loudspeakers, (also time aligned.)
You know what you'll never find in any high-end pro Audio shop anywhere in the United States? cerwinVega.😊... If you want big puffy bass that's uncontrollable.... This is the stuff....
I’ve been a DJ since the early 80’s our first sound system, we bought from a band that broke up at a gig in Baltimore MD. Got it real cheap because they were mad and fighting over money. I got two V35’s and two of those Earthquake EL-36 Subwoofers. Plus two Peavy 800 amps and a two way crossover. I’ve upgraded the amps , but the Vega’s are still rocking. I’ve never had them let me down, and I’ve never been to a show where anybody sounded better, or louder. I’ll never let these Cerwin-Vega’s go. I ❤️ my Cerwin-Vega’s!
LEGENDARY!!!!
@@fatevans1015 rock on.
If you have more than one Cerwin Vega, you have Cerwin Vegas. I sold them in the 1980s to my high end car audio customers with Orion amplifiers.
@@garycook5125 You point out a common mistake. Apostrophe s ('s) is possessive while the s (s) by itself is plural. That also years, as in "I attended college in the 1980s."
I bought a pair of D9's in the mid 80's and 40 years later my tinnitus has never sounded better.
😛👊
I owned the 9's as well. Not much in the high-end though.
@@gregorall9779or is that the tinnitus?
I bought a pair of AT-15 speakers back in the 1990's and they are still the best sounding speakers I ever owned. Had a crossover in one of them bite the dust in 2011 but got it replaced. That is the only problem I have had with them and they are still going strong to this day. I will never give them up because they are excellent speakers that can handle a high wattage receiver.
Thank you for doing this one! And good job showcasing the newer models. They really are a unique speaker and a fantastic bang for your buck!
I get nothing but compliments on my DJ rig every time I use them. Two 21” folded horns (sometimes 4 21’s) and the CVP 152’s on top. Clarity,loudness, and wide dynamics. And vigorously loud clear and deep bass!
When I was in high school in the late '80s, I had 2 12 inch Cerwin Vegas on the backseat of my '68 Camaro!!
I own a pair of At-15’s purchased new in March 1991
Had the drivers refoamed. In 2018 my neighbors enjoy them as much as I do 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎶
Nothing beats the ORIGINAL VEGA'S 😁🤘
Their contribution to the sound reinforcement industry cannot be said enough. The Earthquake series of folded horn loaded units and their descendents...legends in the industry, imitated by everyone ever since. Nothing throws bass louder and farther than those...
@ruikazane5123 To amateur DJ's the Cerwin Vegas were popular. However, In the pro audio world the Earthquake horn loaded subs were known as the one note wonders, and no one used them due to the overtones and lack of clean uncolored bass. Danley Sound Labs, Bassboss, and Meyer have made the Cerwins obsolete. Danley Sound horn loaded subs are superior to Cerwin Vega in very metric. EAW , EV and JBL have made much much much more contribution to the world of pro sound than Cerwin Vega and it is not even close
Cerwin Vega Earthquake subs are not rider friendly either. They will cost you clients and gigs. The earthquake is not called the one note wonder for nothing
As a Rep for CV I met Gene on a tour of the factory in the mid '70's. He hated dome drivers. Laughed at them. To make fun of them he cut a basketball in half and glued each half to 2 woofers as dome woofers.
I went to a party when I was in junior high in 1986 and the DJ used CV AT-12s. I was so awed by how loud and hard they hit. The beautiful wood cabinet and red surrounds caught my eyes. I vowed that when I become and adult and have money, I will buy a pair for myself.
Nearly 40 years later I haven't bought a pair. lol
Partly because they are huge and I don't have much space, and the other reason being the newest ones I can buy don't have the same build quality like they did back then. Older classic ones are often beat up and needs reconing.
I guess I'll just leave that memory behind.
They are not that big at all. I'm looking at mine right now, they are next to my VS120's (bigger) and my D5's ( a little smaller). I'm 61. Nothing like reliving your youth for a few hundred bucks. Highly recommend it, you'll have a great time and grin- ALOT.
I love this series of company histories. You have a real knack for finding old advertising and photos. How about doing the story on some old musical instrument electronics companies, like Sunn or Acoustic Control?
Sure, one of such brands is already in production. Thanks
Earthquake was awesome.
I have a set of E-712's. They sound great.
My 1990 AT15's got me some eviction notices over the years.
Fun fact, I still have the speakers but no longer live there.
My buddy worked as customer service manager at Cerwin Vega in los Angeles. They were actually making speakers there. I got a whole bunch of speakers for cost of materials. I still have my CLS15s although the amp died and I replaced it with a modern plate amp.
I love them since my friend in the neighborhood bought 2x12 for his car audio system back in the late 90s. Love how it produced the tight and solid low end compared to Rockford Fosgate :)
I had an 18' Stroker woofer in my home system with a custom crossover. When I worked in retail we sold tractor trailer loads of the A123 speakers. They were LOUD and affordable. The best of the early speakers were the S1. Later when I worked as a sales rep I sold the car audio systems.
RIP to American made Cerwin Vegas!
They still are going strong
When owned by Gibson Guitars Cerwin-Vega made great music speakers for home and professionally. Recently acquired by Chinese Holding Co. put the future of Cerwin-Vega in question. When I was in college in the 90's, needing to upgrade the stereo in my Ford Escort I said screw it and bought a pair of Cerin-Vega Tower 3 way speakers with 10 inch woofers. Fit perfect in the hatchback. Small amp pushing maybe 40-50 watts still cranked out the tunes with plenty of bass. Cerwin Vega speakers at the time were 6 ohm, so made powering them easier. I still believe dollar for dollar home audio beats car audio products. Especially speakers. Maybe it's the cabinets?
How many of us audionerds had home speakers in the back of their cars! In the early 80s I had two Fisher 8" 2-ways in the back of my Subaru hatchback. And my friend had two Realistic Mach Ones strapped into the back seat of his Impala. Holy hell!
Pa, home audio manufacturers do much better stuff than the regular todays grade car audio bs, only subwoofers are purpose built and therefore different than home audio/pa stuff, just one look at the ts parameters will clear all
And the best of all? I only use a car audio subwoofer in my car, i got pa/home audio gear for my front stage and for the measly price of not even 500€ for the materials and speakers i got a sweet 3 way system, while my last car had double the budget and half the speakers, because i didnt know how to read and was stupid/blinded by "car audio" bs, now i know much better in what to buy
So how many here remove the grill from their Cerwins' just so they can see those iconic red foam surrounds and the white logo on the dist cap??
Currently using two of the CV EL-36D Earthquake 18" folded horn subs in my professional sound system. Big and heavy, but great subs for outdoor events.
My home system uses two E-712s and they are fantastic. They are the best speakers I've ever owned.
I have a few sets of CV’s, the HED u321, HED u103, DX-3, D-1 and VS-80. Love them all :)
Nicely researched and presented.
Thank you!
@@bshingledecker two good
things go together
Technics turntables &
Cerwin Vega speakers.
I STILL HAVE MY DX 7s i bought in the very early 90s . Still working hard.
I have a pair of DX5 and LS 12s hooked to my Kenwood receiver and my basement is a concert at the push of a button and they hit so clean.
I worked for CV back in the late 80's, up in Simi Valley; research on coupled-cavity subs. Nice people, hope they are all doing well.
I had a pair of "S1" LOUD speakers - which featured a gas bag and 6th order bass reflex alignment using an outboard under-damped 2nd order highpass filter which peaked ~6dB / Q=2 at fb then rolled off somewhat below fb as to not waste power fluttering the woofer. That C-V series and EV's Interface series were about the only speakers to make use of the technique. It still makes good sense and a woofer by numbers should have a Qts of ~0.312 or a bit lower for 6th order reflex. I also had a pair of B36 and my Peavey W-bin was loaded with a C-V 18 which was used for bass guitar. A 3-way 12" woofer - 6" midrange and horn tweeter like S1 would make a good DIY speaker these days.
Glad I snagged the last TS-42 available from Amazon to complete my setup years back. They need to bring back the 21" stroker horn loaded subs.
Cerwin vega L36 box design are very popular here in the Philippines, they use to compete with each other for max spl. truly a legend
its already modified not actually l36 hehe, thats why they call it mcv
WOW! not sure what speaker system my dad had( seriously doubt they were CVs) but do remember watching "Earthquake" at home and it was simulcasted. I remember CV out in Chatsworth Ca. Believe they were on Topanga Canyon. Harman-Kardon was there as well..
Still have my AT-15s!
Technics/Panasonic next upload please.. :)
Thank you😃
Outstanding I review I my CV XLS 215 on my channel. I LOVE THEM
That's awesome!
I remember strokers... at CES they plugged one into a 240V outlet. It was fine. LOL
The cerwin vega strokers are based on the Sensurround subwoofers
Really miss my AT-15's...
Glad I kept mine, when I bought them at Circuit City in the 80’s they were on sale for $700, still a lot of money then, but since I still use them I figure only about $20/year!
@garyharper2943 regrets...
The sound company I worked for in the 1990s brought disco to Los Angeles. They also sold 8% of everything Cerwin-Vega manufactured.
To think Universal was going to use *shakers* under all of the seats.
The "Stroker" which had dual spiders was used in a club in downtown Los Angeles. Fantasia Club in the Bonaventure Hotel. The DJs had an unofficial competition to see what they could knock off the shelves in the gift shop next door. 😈
Do they make any of their red surround in rubber instead of foam ?
I sold audio in the late '70s. For a time, we sold Cerwin-Vegas. We hated them. We called them "Cerwin-Vulgars". We also made up a slogan: "We couldn't make them better, so we made them louder." I will say one thing about them: They were indestructible.
Saw Battle Star Galactica in sensurround. Incredible.
This sounds like the narrator from the Avia Guide To Home Theater DVD. Oh, and I used to have two 8" CV subs in my car in a bandpass box back in the day. Over 125dB with a little Punch 75 amp.
I use to have a Cerwin Vega power amplifier.
I bought an old 1970's Acoustic brand folded horn cabinet with a 18" Cerwin-Vega speaker in it. It reads about 2.67 ohms. Does anybody know if it is safe to use a 4 ohm bass guitar amp with this?
Love my 300 SE's
There were so many companies making public adress speakers back then and now.
I still have my D9's
no sold all of them years ago .i had a truck that was running 12 /18 inch strokers for many years and the home stuff was sold back in the mid 2000s
I remember dumpster diving them when they were located in simi valley
MX-400's were my children in the 90s.
I always wanted a pair of the u123 . I liked them better than Heresy’s.
My suggestion for you is to make movie about Infinity brand.
I wanted more information on the Cerwin Vega Articulated Line Array.
Could you look into ascendent audio? They just disappeared in the late 2000s
Still have a pair of 217R
I bought a set of dual 15 PA speakers and blew the tweets out. When I took them apart I wasn't impressed with the drivers. Chinese junk. But the good side was it didn't cost much to replace them. It was my fault they blew though. Lesson learned. I took the blown voice coils to my land lords and set them in different places in the kitchen and you can imagine my entertainment watching him search for that burning smell 😅😅😅
HED's ...all the way...😉
And then along Came Andrews and Newsh...
We then KNEW what bass was (and IS)
:-)
4:30 Truthfully, everyone and their mother came out with speakers designed for "digital" sound. All marketing BS.
Just like my white van speakers!!!
His sourname was Czerwiński and his parents were Polish. If he had Irish, French, German or Italian ancestor everyone would emphasize it. But in this case: "son of imigrants" and that's all.
I thought Cerwin-Vega were cheap Cash Converter Secondhand Speakers sold from a White Car Park van.
Acoustic Research are my Favorites.
great.. the story of QUAD please
Very good video, but the new home speakerlines really look bad.
Try to look at what JBL! And others are doing, and i bet if Cerwin Vega made a revamped D series for 2025 it would be very successful.
I have never liked vega. I call them blender speakers because they just blend everything together. They will play loud.
And midway
The video jumps from 1983 to 2003!!! 🤣 skipped an entire 2 decades of product and maybe the most prolific decades 😂
AT10 anyone?
For home music should I get XLS-28 or SL-12?
Amp is Yamaha a-s801
If you want new speakers, I'd rather go for the new LA series. Add a subwoofer if needed. For used I'd look into older series, pre 2000.
At the 1 minute mark, what the heck! (lol) That's kind'a odd.
"Specificaly designed to reproduce sounds recorded digitally "...................???!
Yes:) I also didn’t understand the idea
@@multimedium_channel_en It was the usual (and necessary) marketing guff , like "Digital ready!" ..ooh!
They are great speakers though.
they use to be great home and car audio in 70s/90s then got sold to china /the drivers are not as good as they use to be . i have had over 300 of their driver from 18 strokers for car audio /and home audio/ i was running them when most ran kicker.but now they are just another chinese cheap driver. try the new ones they dont last////
Still have any old drivers for sale, regardless of condition?
I have been in and around the audio business, both for the professional world and the audiophile world since 1968. At NO TIME has Cerwin-Vega ever been known for quality or any innovations; compared to the industry giants: Electro-Voice, Altec Lansing, JBL, B&C, Klipsch and so many more. They were ONLY known for producing a BIG exagerated Bass sound...anything but High Fidelity! And let's all remember those red/orange FOAM surround drivers that ALL rotted out 5+ years after being purchased! Cheap JUNK is all they were. Much like BOSE CRAP!!!!
that's partially true. they weren't as refined as other brands. but the foam surrounds lasted about 25 years and can be easily replaced for about $20. I have a 1988 set of AT15s that I bought used about 10 years and refoamed them. they still work fine. I have a set I bought new in 1996 and they're still fine.
Never been known for any innovations? I'd have to disagree. Gene was an accomplished engineer, and lead a lot of the pack you mentioned. Massive tactile bass in a public venue, Gene was there first. And it's everywhere now. Dual woofer spiders, Gene was there first. Now they're everywhere. Plenty with ribbon transducers. Coaxial speakers. Compression drivers. Gas bags in speakers to increase volume. Both under his name, and under Cerwin vega, He had quite a few patents on things many have built on. Plus he innovated quite a bit with amplifier design. But the extent that Gene pioneered quite a bit of the world of audio, is on the web for those who want to look.
A lot of his speakers were known as "party speakers", and when you heard them at college parties with 50 watt amps trying to push 200, yeah, anything would sound terrible. But Cerwin also had quite a few high end models, comparitively rare. A Lot were only made overseas. Gene did a lot around Europe. Dali used his drivers in their top models, etc. There's a lot to Cerwin Vega that you aren't going to run across unless you do a little digging.
Myself, I've had more than a few higher end and esoteric speakers through my hands, and over decades tried to check out all the legacy brands, touted models, etc. I've had many hundreds of models. And maybe 10 years ago, after hearing all those other models, my first pair of Cerwins literally dropped my jaw. Working properly, and powered properly, Vegas are a force to be reckoned with.
You sux with this lies! I know what vega bas is. It is louder and deeper than any JBL shit!
Great if you like loud one note bass, colored mid and tizzy HF.
Then you don’t know Cerwin Vega
@@captainca1445 You are right, I'm just guessing. No knowledge of loudspeakers or audio. The main thing is if You like them, that's just fine.
A Cerwin-Vega advertising slogan "If its too loud, your too old!"
@@DandyDon1 They also used to say. Loud is good if it's clean. A great slogan but not true of these speakers.
@@MichaelBeeny Well for professional installations, if you have the right sound man, most of the good stuff will sound great. I worked for a pro sound company in the 1990s which had been around since 1971. A lesson learned on how the (wrong kind) of reflection in a room can impede loudspeakers and the system. A pair of Cerwin-Vega dual DMTs, which were Gene's 12" cone driver and 2 Foster 4" horn tweeters. They were installed in a patio area of a German owned night club in DTLA. I had heard the DMTs in many places and knew they weren't the best. After my boss made the final EQ I could not believe my ears as to how good they now sounded. Mind you we also sold Bag-End which is time aligned, as well as Celestion SR series of loudspeakers, (also time aligned.)
Cerwin Vega...lots of Power...but with no accuracy.
Not true! Many of CVs models are actually more dynamically accurate than speakers costing many many tines more.
How do you know you've hired An amateur or your production has no money?....You see, CV there.😂
You know what you'll never find in any high-end pro Audio shop anywhere in the United States? cerwinVega.😊... If you want big puffy bass that's uncontrollable.... This is the stuff....
Their professional bass speakers are the best!