Cerwin Vega???

[OH PLASMA]

I have ran across CV speakers numerous times and they are always fairly inexpensive. I have always heard of CV, but what kind of quality speaker are they. Could you build a descent HT with them?

[petenad]

I have a CV sub the CLS12 and it will shake the walls upstairs and down. It has BASH technology which means something just not sure what. If I had a choice though I would want the servo 15 from Paradigm only because it would be amazing just to see what it could do.

[Sith]

ahhh the memories of listening to Metallica and Slayer in h.s. on my 12' CW

[Beta Man]

I had a 5.1 CV setup.... 12" towers, a center, a couple of bookshelfs for surrounds, and a 15" sub

Knowing what I know now, I wish I would have never wasted the money on them...... they sound like absolute garbage.

COPY/PASTE from my other thread....


Yeah, the "Dungeon" that is my basement.... at least part of it..... here's my fancy Sony AVR and DVD player (for CDs) The center channel on top isn't plugged in, and hasn't actually been used in a LONG time.



The "Wide" view




Junky speaker close-up

I'm probably going to give these (with center/sub/surrounds) away to a friend..... I'm sick of them taking up space, and he'll give me a small pair of bookshelfs or something that I can mount in the joists above the foos-table.

[walmat]

Originally Posted by OH PLASMA

I have ran across CV speakers numerous times and they are always fairly inexpensive. I have always heard of CV, but what kind of quality speaker are they. Could you build a descent HT with them?

I'm still using CV speakers for my 5 surround. They're about 8 years old and all bookshelf. I know there are other better sounding speakers but these still sound great for HT if set up and balanced properly. The only upgrade I've nade was to get the velodyne sub to replace a 10" vega sub, That was a definite improvement.
I do plan to upgrade to paradigms but that'll cost alot and there's no urgency to do so because I use these for HT and as I said they sound good in my 12' by 21' room.

[BluM3]

CV tends to be overly bass heavy; they lack clarity and accuracy. Depends on what you're looking for - personally I would never buy CV because I prefer accuracy and clarity of bass heavy; that's what a good sub is for and can produce more accurately w/ little or no distortion.

There are a lot of inexpensive, accurate speakers out there - especially if you're roaming ebay.

Look at PSB Alpha's; Axiom audio makes wonderful speakers for not a lot of money. The choices are limitless.

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by BluM3

CV tends to be overly bass heavy; they lack clarity and accuracy. Depends on what you're looking for - personally I would never buy CV because I prefer accuracy and clarity of bass heavy; that's what a good sub is for and can produce more accurately w/ little or no distortion.

There are a lot of inexpensive, accurate speakers out there - especially if you're roaming ebay.

Look at PSB Alpha's; Axiom audio makes wonderful speakers for not a lot of money. The choices are limitless.

I agree. If your looking for speakers just to be loud, then CV might be your choice...

[callas01]

I have to agree, My brother has some CV's and I guess they can be loud and OK with music, but my cheap little Sony SS speakers are so much better when it comes to TV, BD's or even music.

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by Sith

ahhh the memories of listening to Metallica and Slayer in h.s. on my 12' CW

In high school I had A pair of CV that had 15" woofers & 2 horned tweeters . These things were huge & loud !!! That was 30 years ago too !!!!