Finally, Pics of Pauls setup

I've had a HT of one form or another for the past 15years, and this is my most recent version. My HT is used 99.99% for theater surround purposes and 00.01% for music.

My newest major upgrades are my YamahaRX-V2500 receiver that I bought in January, and my Mitsubishi 65"HDTV that I picked up last November. Shopping for those is what origionally brought me to this forum. I run a 7 channel surround setup anchored by a 20year old pair of Cerwin Vega D9s that I've recently reconed. They should be good for another 20 years.....Laugh> Before reconing, I shopped extensively for something new, but found nothing that delivers the huge 'theater' experience I crave. These are traditional +-100lb behemoths with 15" main drivers, dual 6.5"mids, and I dont remember the tweeter design. My center channel speaker is also CV, and because my TV is so tall, it sits 5.5" off the ground. Because of that, I have it angled slightly downward to better shoot sound down into the listening area. As you can tell by the photo, it's slightly dipole and angled in the front. My surrounds are 3-way AAL83s. To give you a perspective of their size, the main woofer is 8". Bose161s bring up the rear in back. I bought Bose for no better reason that they 'fit the space', and I have them wall mounted above a pair of double sliding glass doors along the back wall as seen in the photo, and they're angled down into the listening area. As for my TV viewing, I used Direct TV and have the Samsung HDbox to decode those signals and pipe them into my receiver. As for movies, I use a Sony DVD player.
Well....that's just about it.

A closeup of the 'beasts'.
One thing I like is that the tweeters have a red reset button and they cannot be blown. Also the woofers have a built in fuse as seen in the front panel. The mids and highs both have separate volume knobs so you can adjust them up or down according to your taste. Also, I like the idea of having dual mids. For my uses, these are ideal. I cant speak for the newer CV speaker models, but I wouldnt trade these 20year old behemoths 'even-up' for new speakers costing much more.

Movie night at Paul's place...let's go!

HAHAHAHA cerwin vega. I love it man. Gotta bit of old school in your blood. Nice system.

Id get a set of klipsch speakers up in that with that sub. That would be god like in sound. looks good.

christ that thing is huge!!!!

paul that sub is a mean sub what are the statistics of that sub tell me more

Mark,
There is a link to the manufacturer site about 4 messages up the list.

It's the SVS PB12-plus/2. Before ordering a sub that big, you'll definitely want to make sure you have a place to put it. Its truly a beast, and has the most incredible combo of pure brute force, ultra-smooth response, and finese from the same unit that I've ever seen. I feel fairly certain that this sub will 'dust' competing subs costing several times more.

Woooooooooooao---that is hugue --I will like to try thaty in my place...

very nice setup paul...good to see youre a man who knows when to keep a jem. Id make ur son clean ur system though, lil buggers like our toys more than theirs

Ahhhh...thanks,

I do get a lot of enjoyment from it. My son doesnt clean my system, but he did throw a raquetball in one of my subwoofer ports once. I was able to pick it out with a long sweeper extension. HEH

Going "OUT" to the movies isnt even worth the trip anymore. I much prefer the movie experience at home.

Yea, I bought these during my junior year in HS(1985), but I never had them in the dorms when I was in college.

I did bring them to my apartment for my senior year though, and as you can imagine, they got plenty of use and never got a scratch.

I had a summer job, and paid for them myself. As for parental permission??? My father is a HiFi nut too, so that was never a concern. When I was a kid, he would always go HiFi shopping with me, because he was as 'geeked' out about shopping electronic toys as I was......probably moreso.

The funny thing was that my dad wanted me to buy the bigger CVs, and I bought smaller Sansui towers(3-way towers with dual 12" woofers) against his advice. The Sansuis were a couple hundred less, and I went the cheaper route. He told me that I would later regret not spending more for the bigger speakers because I would always have them.

The Sansui towers were junk, and I was constantly blowing tweeters. After 1 year suffering, I sold them for practically nothing, and then bought the speakers he told me to buy in the first place.

How funny is that??

Thank you guys for your time. I really appreciated it.

By the way, Paul, tell me what you think of the following tower speakers: Sony SS-Mf750H ($279.95/pair), Cerwin Vega CLSC-12 ($379.76/pair), and JBL Northridge E100 ($998/pair). Any opinions on these speaker models?

You can get E90's at www.onecall.com for 207 ea , way better deal than the e100's.

Mike, I havent had the opportunity to audition the models you listed, so I couldnt comment on their quality. As for the spouse?? I had those speakers before her, so they came with me as a package deal.

LOL

14' x 16' , standard double wide livingroom.

Paul,

My A-Ls would eat those tiny little CVs for a snack, I think. Maybe I will have to get those puppies reconed. LOL

I envy the TV and sub, obviously! However Paul, you might want to consider raising your CVs just a bit, so that the tweeters are at ear level to your sitting position. Since the SVS is doing the low end now you won't lose any bass that way, but it should improve the clarity of the CVs.

Two pairs of these should do the job:

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What do subsonic bass frequencies (bass frequencies below 20 Hz) sound like, Paul? Can you even describe them, or not?

Hey, Paul. What do you think of this beast?




It has dual 15 in. woofers, a 6 in. midwoofer, and a 1" soft dome tweeter. The sensitivity of this speaker is 97 db. What do you think

Often what you feel inside your body is called the infersSonics range.....20Hz to 0Hz.

And are bodies resonate at 7Hz, if this where to be matched via an array of huge 18inc sub bass units placed wall to wall with there own amplifiers driving them and sine wave of 7Hz where to be played, at a high SPL db level it would match the bodies own resonate frequency and will cause disorientation chest pains and even fatal death I Kidd you not.....

Paul, I am sorry to bother you again, but I have another question for you about Cerwin Vegas. Since you seem to be a Cerwin Vega genious, I figured I'd come to you for advice. How harsh do Cerwin Vegas sound in the treble? I have heard good reviews about those CLSC-215's having lots of bass, but if they have harsh treble, I ain't buying them, because I have a JVC shelf unit with pounding bass and harsh treble, and while it does impress me with its pounding bass, its harsh treble makes radio DJs sound ten times more annoying and grates on my ears. I love a lot of bass, but I cannot stand harsh treble. Therefore, do you have any answers? If not, that's all right.

Thanks for your advice.

Andy Anything under 10hz is not recognizable by the human ear. Plus i guarantee no sub on the market will hit below 15hz. Its pointless. You wont even be able to hear it. O and like jexx braught up, it wont kill you, it wont harm you, you wont even hear it. Lol Andy, for a gold member to say such things, idk it should alost be a crime. do some research before you go telling people pointless info. ANd paul. dj speakers are nothing like home audio. They cannot replicate the sound that a good home audio sub can. Dj speakers are designed to be loud, and loud only. They will not sound crystal clean in any way, and by this i mean dont just say uhhh they sound good tho, im talkin specs, if you get a meter up in there, the home audio will spank the dj speakers almost everytime (for comparable subs/speakers). I kno this because i have a few buddies that are club dj's in nor cal, so i get to work with alot of dj equip also. ~ Just thot id put my 2 cents in.

You talking to me paul, or Andy, kuz i wasnt in any way replying to anything you said paul, i was replying to what andy and matt said, and uhhh who said your speakers were dj speakers. Cerwin Vega makes car audio and home audio tweets,mids,components,and subs. So yea, i know they are not dj subs, and i dont think anyone in this post said they were.

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Yea, that powered sub is really nasty. If I mistook your DJ speaker comment, then I apologize for my response. And no...that sub would never fit under a seat....

Not unless it was a captains chair....LOL

Those would be drapes.