Buy this kit: gr-research.co... The Ultimate Party Speaker?! Danny Takes on Cerwin Vega!
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@rancosteel6 ай бұрын
Cerwin Vegas claim to fame was never to be a high fidelity product. Gene Czerwinski introduced outdoor loudspeaker systems for concerts. Also, Cerwin Vega is the only speaker company to win an Academy Award for the film Earthquake with their folding horn design. Some theaters had to stop showing the film because the walls were cracking from the low frequencies. Amazin.
@BigJeddak1876 ай бұрын
Folded horns don't have anything to do with low frequency. It's that Their woofers are almost built to meet the sub-woofer category. That's why they require so much power to properly drive.
@beesting61356 ай бұрын
Wrong they are great speakers
@hochhaul6 ай бұрын
@@beesting6135 I had a pair of their VS-150's. They weren't audiophile material, but they dug right down to 20 Hz without the need for a subwoofer and they had the punch to make you feel like you're at the concert, standing up close to the stage.
@Tazmanian_Ninja6 ай бұрын
@@BigJeddak187How can you fit so much dumb BS into such a short comment? 😅😵 Study more, talk less. Cos right now, you're just propagating BS.
@scottlowell4933 ай бұрын
They won for the 18” subwoofers
@glenncurry30416 ай бұрын
I was a rep for Cerwin Vega in the '70's back when those were sold. Toured the company and met Gene Czerwinski. He had a real thing against dome drivers so he cut a basketball in half and glued each half as a dome to a set of his 10" woofers in cabinets. the only dome woofer at the time! Quite the character!
@RobertCookcx6 ай бұрын
That's beautiful. Lol
@thomasmleahy62185 ай бұрын
,Frankensteinsky style?
@Finite-Tuning6 ай бұрын
I got my first credit card back in my late teens, then got my first pair of Cerwin Vega speakers. Mine were the 15" woofers with dual 3" ports on the rear. I'm here to tell ya, once bi-amped and EQ'd, those things would dig a hole straight to hell on the low end. They can be very impressive if you're willing to push them. I learned a lot about speakers and cabinets with Cerwin Vega, finally sold them in my early 30's to a friend and he still uses them today. With today's digital EQ's, I'll bet one could really make these sing.... Way back when all I had were analog sliders and some really crude analysis gear. No, not the good ole days! Not in this regard. Cheers 🍻 P.S. Back when I bought my 15" version of this speaker, I got them at Sears and paid $500 for the pair. They were sold individually. Funny how I can remember meaningless crap like this 🤷♂.
@marvinmurakami88286 ай бұрын
If you got yours in the late 70's it was probably the Model U315 designating 15" 3-way. The U15 was a 15" 2-way. Great sounding speakers that'll blow out the windows along with the frame. I didn't find them fatiguing at all. The U series was followed by the D series, VE series, AT series. Don't know the model names after that.
@Finite-Tuning6 ай бұрын
@@marvinmurakami8828: I bought mine back in 1996 and sold them in 2010. But for the life of me I cannot remember their model number. Cheers 🍻
@tatialo376 ай бұрын
Great story!! Thanks!!
@AmmoDude2 ай бұрын
True test of a great speaker is to run it without having to EQ the heck out of it. If you have to EQ it, move on to something else. Bi-amping doesn't improve sound quality, just allows you to dedicate wattage to the low and mid/high frequencies separately.
@tigerstripeeyes987125 күн бұрын
You forgot about the RE series, like my RE38’s… they are vicious!! 20hz-20,000hz… you just have to be there to experience these monsters.😎👍
@dennisryan4596 ай бұрын
I was a DJ at parties and used these speakers ! I drove them with the Cayin A50 -T integrated tube amp ! People always came up to me to comment on the quality of sound ! I also used a turntable and two high end SACD players . It played loud and clean with emotion ! Many DJ' s have terrible sound today !
@billydeaton3560Ай бұрын
That's because they think if they can just drop a couple speakers a cheap mixer a junk amp and a turntable they will get paid ! Now days they have there song lists in a computer and just push play ! That ain't proper DJing !! Proper DJing is a lost art ! Plus your clarity of sound is everything !!
@craighoffman68766 ай бұрын
This brings back some memories. These are party speakers. They are designed to be hot on the top end for when the room is full of drunk treble absorbing bodies. I was in a fraternity in college when these were current models. Built some 3 way party speakers using four CV 12" woofers, dome mids and horn piezo tweeters and simple crossovers designed solely to protect the mids from damage. I knew nothing, but still knew enough to put a coil on the woofer to roll it off though. Piezo tweeters were indestructible and required no crossover to protect them as they are high resistance and "ignore" low frequencies. The piezo tweeters would make your ears bleed when the room was empty but they "came in" once we had 100+ people packed into the bar. The old CV woofers had nice cast aluminum baskets on them. The house system had four 12's and it thumped hard for that pre powered subwoofer era. The usual deal was to turn the 100 WPC Yamaha integrated amp we had up to clipping, then back itt off a tad, and the party was on. We ran the amp with a fan on it as it got toasty hot otherwise 😆 It is a credit to the amp that it drove that 4 ohm load hard and it didn't melt. Old school Yamama is tuff stuff. I am shocked the orange foam surround isn't all rotted out though.
@v12alpine6 ай бұрын
Pretty sure that woofer has been recently reconed. Agree on the party curve response. A crouded/loud audience needs more top end to over come. And the breaker on the mids/highs is super critical (drunk DJ protection).
@rb895096 ай бұрын
I had a pair of D9's back in the 80's. I still have Tinnitus to this day, almost 40 years later. Would I buy them again? Hell yes!
@mark-1rc5026 ай бұрын
They’re made in china these days
@fishypictures5 ай бұрын
My wife and I went to the good guys back in the seventies . We got a pair of Cerwin Vega hard rockers. Great speakers.
@Error2username6 ай бұрын
So glad to see cv on your channel🙏
@AllboroLCD6 ай бұрын
The ultimate party speaker? No Danny, the ORIGINAL party speaker! I even believe those are the speakers used by Rick Rubin in his NYU dorm room studio.
@joesshows67936 ай бұрын
Agree
@robinkleinsteuber52176 ай бұрын
@@joesshows6793 Obviously had exquisite taste in sound, be crackie! 😅 Party on! 🍺
@troyhunt86906 ай бұрын
Back in the 80's bought a pair of CERWIN VEGA D-5's and a pair of D-3's "WOW THOSE THINGS WOULD SHAKE THE HOUSE".. Got my share of police calls, for "LITERALLY WAKING UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD, DISTURBING THE PEACE" during parties. Kept those speakers for over 30 years, the woofer orange speaker section started getting old and fell apart on two, blew a tweeter on one but other that they lasted me a long time. Sold all 4 speakers about 8 years ago to young guy for $150. Got my money's worth from them over the years.
@JR-ho5qm6 ай бұрын
Danny helped me with a crossover upgrade on a newer pair of CerwinVega! SL12 and I couldn’t be happier! CV speakers respond really well to crossover upgrades, and NoRez. I highly recommend anyone who is interested in doing this to there CV speakers to do so. Hopefully we see more CerwinVega speakers come through GR Reserch.
@user-qq3lo9vy8rАй бұрын
Where did you find the upgraded crossover from.
@JR-ho5qmАй бұрын
@@user-qq3lo9vy8r I sent my stock crossovers to Danny at GR and he sent me back everything I needed to point to point wire new crossovers with original schematics
@FOH36636 ай бұрын
I've got the D-5, 12" version ... I haven't played them in thirty years. Late 80's, I opened them up ... diagramed the x-over and was blown away the woofers operate wide open! No filtering. Sure, you hear the upper breakup ... but you're treated to a good woofer, in a good box, directly connected to the amplifier. No resistive, no reactive component, just direct coupled. They're calked chokes for a reason! My D-5s had PTC resistor protection instead of a breaker.
@jasonme35576 ай бұрын
in 1992-3 I have the huge Cerwin Vega 15" version of this one much newer. These were Loud. I had a adcom GFA 535 and wow you could hear them though the whole campus. Any one commenting if you were at RIT in 92-3 you heard us. :) took up a third of the apartment . Good times. Nice one Danny
@bradleydurbin67846 ай бұрын
I have the Adcom G535 my god your lucky you aren’t deaf. Lol
@jikester5 ай бұрын
Still remember fondly the first pair of loudspeakers I ever bought new--A set of Cerwin Vega AT-15s. Ran them with a 400w/ch Carver amp and they'd shake the walls.
@eddieshirely14625 ай бұрын
I had the same. At-15s on a carver a500x. That would deffintly Rock!!!
@nitzerebbhead15 күн бұрын
I still have my old CV MX250 speakers I bought as a young US soldier in Korea. I refoamed the 12" woofers around 2015 as they had been unusable for years. We rocked the barracks with them back in 1995.. I have always known they aren't the most accurate speakers out there, but yeah they were loud... :)
@StrangeBrewReviews6 ай бұрын
You could make good money with aftermarket crossovers for Cerwin-Vega...huge following
@joelowens52116 ай бұрын
Cerwin Vegas were my first pair of real speakers when a kid over 30 years ago. Had a pair of the 15's from Circuit City and had then in a 10 by 10 foot bedroom with a Kenwood receiver. The bass was absolutely crushing and they had good highs also. My dad would come up from the basement 2 levels down and get mad because the whole house was shaking..lol For the money they were amazing speakers for back in the day. These days I have an ultra high end system but when you are a kid most just want the boom, boom sound and clear highs.
@dextermorgan16 ай бұрын
I was going to write my 2 cents in the comments, but you just wrote pretty much exactly what I was going to! First speakers, when I was 13 etc. I have a great system now, but back then, those speakers were the beet!
@sgtjosozo6 ай бұрын
It's about time we see some Cerwin Vegas here.
@AaronHendu6 ай бұрын
My dad had some very nice Cerwin Vega speakers growing up...I literally blasted windows out of the frames of our old house when he wasnt home one day. You could crank them to the moon with very little distortion. At first he got super mad.but eventually he asked me how I got them to soind so good and had to show him how tp use his digital amp controls...he was used to the slider eq from the past and had no clue you could even adjust levels and whatnot. He had all sorts of effects turned on lol. Edit - he still uses those speakers, though he added a massive subwoofer for watching movies (16" I think...in a 12x12 living room.originally lol), and Sony center and rear speakers. He did have to replace the woofers a few years back but he got the actual OEM replacements. They have been in daily use for about 35 years now. I think he still uses the same Yamaha amp from the early 90's as well. Flanks his massive approx. 70" television.
@rinkopr55615 ай бұрын
I have a pair of D9s and love them. Had them since 1984
@swd79016 ай бұрын
A blast from the past. Wow. I've been dreaming about Cerwin Vega speakers, and now I'm happy that they were only dreams. Very surprised that the iconic bass drivers were so muted!?
@peterrichard37066 ай бұрын
I got the Re 30,s. For 20 yrs now. Best bass, mids n highs. No need for subwoofer.. Go down to 28. 97 db. Best bang for bucks
@stephenyoud61256 ай бұрын
Danny - you’re a genius.. Excellent result there. There’s life in the old dog yet !! (The speaker not you !!), well, clearly you also!!
@edwardbalowski65726 ай бұрын
Vegas will always bring great memories for me,just super loud and always took a beating but just kept on thumping......Sabbath and zepplein never sounded better.
@philipteater37146 ай бұрын
God bless Danny. He must have helped thousands improve their speakers to levels far beyond the original. And dipping all the way down to CV? impressed
@darrenschmitz27126 ай бұрын
Danny, I bet you probably design more crossovers in month then most designers do in their career.
@jdlech6 ай бұрын
The D-9 is the legend. 101db @1w/1m. Probably measures terrible. I'll bet the MTM design has some major issues. But once your ears are bleeding, it won't matter much. CW was never really meant for high end - they were party animals. Emphasis on animal. They were beasts. They were rated at 350w, but my brothers 200w amp could blow the fuse. We replaced a lot of fuses back then.
@qddk95456 ай бұрын
It brings back memories. I once had a ´high end´ set that I think was called S1. 15" woofer, 5" mid woofer and 2 screamer tweeters, one front and one backfiring. I dismounted the 2 screamers and installed an EV tweeter of some kind on top of the cab, and they served me well in my 20´s.
@awm8915 ай бұрын
Love Vega's. Dad bought a pair way back in the day and I rocked the shit out of the house lol
@raygarafano36336 ай бұрын
Greetings, just got the SL-15, already had tge SL-12. To me they are great, Classical piano is great, got the lowest piano strings sounding great. Herb Alpert sounds pretty good as so other brass. Yup, very satisfied.
@patmason72766 ай бұрын
Have been using them for years always a trusted go to speaker!!!
@richsherman36736 ай бұрын
I owned a pair of VS-120 in 1992. My ADCOM 100W GFA-545. The Cerwin Vegas just kept blowing fuses. They sounded average. I returned then after 2 month’s and Circuit City traded me up for a pair of JBL LX-500. No blown fuses and a lovely soundstage. Cerwin Vegas were mid-fi. Good for compressed FM Rock and cheap Turntables.
@user-od2fp9nm1h6 ай бұрын
I had a pair of D5s back in the day. Good for Rock music, not much else. After a couple of loud songs, they seemed to beam high frequencies directly to your brain. If I'd had seen this before I got rid of them, I would have rebuilt them though.
@kevin9c16 ай бұрын
I still have a pair of E-312s that I got 25 years ago. I replaced the 12" woofers with some 12" car subs for reasons. But I'd love to do a project like this on them!!
@genecase94646 ай бұрын
I just installed 4 Cerwin Vega V468 coaxial speakers in my old Ford Explorer and they are of really very nice quality. Heavy frame, large magnet and they have the bright red surround rubber CV is known for. And they sound pretty darn good too!. I know Danny is playing with some of their older house speakers but I thought I'd mention these car speakers. And like most consumer level products, CV makes many products of varying price and quality. I wish someone would analyze car speakers as well as Danny does the home stereo speakers. Although KZbin sites like Williston Audio Labs are a lot of fun!
@TriAmpHiFi6 ай бұрын
lol, what a difference. Love to hear 'em. Acid Jazz, Funk & Brass 🔈🔉🔊
@nelsono43156 ай бұрын
back in the day I owned a pair of CV's with 15inch woofers. I called them lease breakers. And I had them in a smallish room. WOW ! Stand back !!!
@4Fox593 ай бұрын
Just picked up a pair of 39p Cerwin Vegas and a Yamaha CR-840 at an estate sale for $55. Work perfectly after some internal cleaning on the Yamaha. Not sure of the difference in these and the D3, but so far enjoying them right now as I type.
@Connectronix6 ай бұрын
I have the big Cerwin Vega DX9’s and they were my first real speakers into the world of HiFi. Now you got me thinking that I should upgrade them and get them singing again! Classic! 🔊🔊😎
@JR-ho5qm6 ай бұрын
Definitely upgrade them. You will enjoy the process and results! Send them to Danny, I would love to see a crossover upgrade on the DX9. That’s a popular speaker
@tenehaglendening92465 ай бұрын
I would be interested in a Dx9 upgrade as well@@JR-ho5qm
@richh6503 ай бұрын
Using tube connectors with that nasty tweeter.... priceless... lol
@JG-no3iz5 ай бұрын
Had a pair in my 10x10 bedroom, Pioneer sx8 receiver and a pile of Metal records. Miss the 80's.
@SWRMR6 ай бұрын
Men... I could never thought these kind of vintage speakers could ever play at ruler flat response, no matter what! Great great job! 👋👋👍
@jeffbilliau90696 ай бұрын
I'd be interested in purchasing a kit for my Cerwin Vega Re30 series 12" woofer speakers if you ever make that model a project on your end. Keep me posted if you do. Thanks
@JR-ho5qm6 ай бұрын
If you send him one of your RE30 speakers he will design a upgrade for it
@gznubouit6 ай бұрын
My first ever speakers D3 were the sheet when they came out, all of my friends wanted them. We plugged them in a Metron M200 and they absolutely sang.
@word2RG6 ай бұрын
not cheap but this one may be worth it, amazing transformation. nice work.
@jimtincher73576 ай бұрын
Cerwin Vega's moto was "loud is beautiful if it's clean"...
@ChicagoRob26 ай бұрын
Amazing linearity after the mods. Looks to be within +/- 1.5 dB!
@luisandoro13176 ай бұрын
Danny, you're a great guy, honestly! I applaud the effort and the wisdom yo bring the people to the dyi world of audio acoustic. Now , we know that is an Alice run once the bug bite
@thomasreaves3026 ай бұрын
A friend had a pair of Vegas in the early 80's. I could listen to about 3 songs then had to go outside to rest my ears!!! Jeez, they were ringers. Thing about it, everyone thought they were the bomb cause they were so loud.
@mutatedgenome6 ай бұрын
That response looks great. Nice work Danny.
@cpe1704tks6 ай бұрын
Wish somebody would send you a Realistic Mach One to upgrade!
@Drivehead1036 ай бұрын
I wonder what could be done with my Cerwin Vega e712, this was very cool and impressive.
@JanMejerRasmussen6 ай бұрын
oh...in 1983 I had Cerwin Vega D3-E , I think I bought them because of the looks
@chemicallust776 ай бұрын
When you installed the tube connectors, did you remove the input cup and replace it with a piece of wood or something?...It would have been nice to see the back side and show how you did it
@dannyrichie97436 ай бұрын
The customer gets to do that, and it will be easiest to install them straight through the cabinet.
@frankcoffey6 ай бұрын
The party speaker I remember was the Realistic Mach One from Radio Shack. One of the few things we sold at the Shack that was popular. We sold lots of them and the Minimus 7 speakers when they went on sale.
@scotth68145 ай бұрын
I wanted the Mach One's. Somebody talked me out of them.
@seoulrydr6 ай бұрын
thanks for another vid - wish we were able to see the spectral decay prior to the revamp!
@roundearthshill2486 ай бұрын
I have a soft spot for Cerwin Vega. My dad had a pair of the 12" woofer floor standers and he would play the intro to Top Gun at insane ear piercing levels.
@HF-7DXM-6DXW-126 ай бұрын
People always complain when I play my Vegas. Sure its bad ass but its getting hard to enjoy and not have to face somebody's bitching. Whether I play the D3s on a 120w receiver or twelve 15"s and eight 12"s on 3 large Qsc qmps there's always someone who gets upset about the bass every, single, time..
@Jack969936 ай бұрын
OMG had them back in the late 70's with my Marantz 2265B receiver
@thomasordal82296 ай бұрын
i can remember most everybody graduated from handheld transistor radios, and most people were not audiophiles, and something with loud booming bass and sizzling mids and highs were what most people wanted as it impressed them most did not become audiophiles. i lived in a town that had a fresh batch of customers each semester from chicago, they had money and most lived in fraternity houses and dorms, in the late 60s and 70s there were 7 or 8 audio specialty stores in a community of about 60000-- very unique in the world, most speakers were for party activities these listening rooms were not conducive for critical listening, and or critical listening was unheard of. at this time most people did not know,what Bass or deep bass was[low C on the pipe organ] is or was a goal for some of us. of course clean sound and imaging were there, there were times a few of us did our own recordings to get the best sound, i had a friend who cut a hole in the floor to affix an iron pipe to a concrete pad to get better sound from the turn table. i had to put my turntable in the bathroom closet because the bass power of my home built klipsch corner horns forced to put the turn table in another room[ late 1970s] eventually compact disk came out things were changing, then changing op amp chips etc,,speakers got better everywhere, still people have different values on what they want in speaker sound, they have that right to their values, by the way part of my profession was hearing conservation , using octave band spectrum analyzers , time weighted dosimeters in a million square foot industrial plant , i have listened to a lot of live orchestral music as well a church music, people today have it so much better then when i got started in audio as a teenager in the kik ate 1960s---- i look at that cerwin vega speaker i think at the 1974,winter consumer electronic show were cerwin had a 18 inch woofer he would plug inyo the wall outlet an blow circuit breakers , there were a lot of nice people in the speaker business.
@jtgrube19854 ай бұрын
I would like to see what an upgraded crossover for the VS series would do
@GarryBundzeak5 ай бұрын
Hi Danny, have you ever considered just selling the schematic values you design? No parts, just the design. The 12" and 15" Cerwin Vega DIY fans would certainly like upgrades. Thanks
@jukingeo3 ай бұрын
Cerwin Vega...Definitely not an audiophile speaker, but definitely a party speaker. I used the commercial variants when I was a DJ back in the day and they were very good low end performers, but not so much on the high end. Horns are definitely shrill and midrange is usually dull. However, I had found that using them outdoors with large crowds, they worked well. They were very efficient speakers and didn't need a huge amplifier to drive them. Much of this is true of their home speakers as well. This was definitely not the speaker to sit down and do critical listening with. It was the speaker of choice when you had parties and get togethers and really wanted something that thumps and shakes the walls, like if you were in a night club. I am not sure I would go through the trouble to rework one of these, except to tame the highs down and perhaps put No-Rez in the cabinet. But I wouldn't do much more with these. For audiophile use, there are definitely much better options.
@iantyler40456 ай бұрын
Amazing to see a pair of CV's with intact surrounds. They usually crumble to dust.
@RennieAsh6 ай бұрын
Possibly been replaced already
@MrRjm1456 ай бұрын
Yes. I replaced them myself about 10 years ago.
@seejayfrujay6 ай бұрын
A favorite for bars and other drinking dancing establishments in the 70s. The only good thing I can say about them is that they never melted.
@Kulumuli6 ай бұрын
I've seen the old Cerwin Vega 1215, the old top of the line speaker of theirs, are sought after today. I don't know why. Maybe it's a good speaker compared with their other ones. I've read that the speakers themselves are of good quality but the crossovers not so. So those would perhaps be interresting for Danny.
@JR-ho5qm6 ай бұрын
Yes that would definitely be a very good video
@sickmessiah6 ай бұрын
I wonder how the dx9 would be with improvements .. I use to own 2 pairs of them .. Id run a sansui au 717 with them and they were very nice to listen to ... Not mix on .. LOL .. That combo seemed to make everything sound better then it was ... I grew up learning to produce music on dx9's .. Not really knowing what i was doing ... I also had a pair of dx3's i found cheap .. Anyhow ... Id love to see a pair of them tri amped for each driver ... That would be a fun project ... I still have the drivers and x-overs to a pair of the dx9's and dx3's .. The boxs are kinda junk now n days in storage ...
@tihzho5 ай бұрын
Back in the 70's I worked at Music & Sound and in our sound room Cerwin Vegas were crap and didn't sell very good when people could hear them against other speakers.
@Eddie07S6 ай бұрын
Great look at a vintage speaker and an amazing upgrade. Years ago I had a chance to listen to a pair of CV speakers and wondered where the mid range was. The voices were lost. Now I know - it was buried at the high end of a low playing woofer. Ugh!
@mr.m3255 ай бұрын
they could have been the two way model
@daleboylen64276 ай бұрын
I sold them for years. Well, the store I managed sold them. I never sold a single pair. People LOVED them because they played louder than other speakers. Most people will always choose louder as better. Lost a LOT of commissions, but kept my dignity.
@PetePeety28 күн бұрын
I love you speaker snobs. Speakers are a subjective thing. Machines measuring signals don't bring real humans joy like the old Digital Series from our beloved CV. Measure that...
@daleboylen642727 күн бұрын
@@PetePeety Hardly subjective at all. They either accurately reproduce the signal coming out of the amplifier or they don't. The VAST majority don't. Nor do they come close. Feel free to believe that's not true, but ALL the math fully supports my claim. It's perfectly fine to LIKE what destroys the waveform. Just don't call it audiophile.
@daleboylen642727 күн бұрын
@@PetePeety I;m not a speaker snob. I'm all about hearing exactly what's on the recording. Nothing more. Nothing less. You like speakers that color the sound. Why is it YOU'RE right and I'm the speaker snob? Because I understand the physics of speaker design? Just because I don't love Cerwin Vega's does NOT make me a speaker snob. You, on the other hand, seem to dismiss the physics and call me a snob.
@daleboylen642727 күн бұрын
@@PetePeety "Machines measuring signals don't bring real humans joy", say the guys that readily allow DSP to "Fix their room" using a computer algorithm and an I phone mic.
@cafe80s6 ай бұрын
I really enjoy all of the speaker upgrade videos! Thank you!
@debbiecaldwell4896 ай бұрын
Best Base I ever heard!!!
@MRunar0076 ай бұрын
i had a pair of those ,my neighbors was not happy :)
@brainache5556 ай бұрын
I had a pair of cerwin Vega At 80. Amazing speakers I'm so sad I sold them
@bonkbonk926 ай бұрын
Despite some bad models, there were some great ones. The AT-15 was a great model. Balance was decent. Not gonna say they're the best speaker brand out there, but I think they're by far the best mid market speakers you can buy. If I want better quality for mid market prices I'll just go Paradigm; or at least get some used ones.
@dannyrichie97436 ай бұрын
The Paradigm crossovers are just as bad.
@bonkbonk926 ай бұрын
@@dannyrichie9743 yes... But they perform a lot better from the factory in my experience.
@hom2fu6 ай бұрын
paradigm 5.25" bookshelf speaker i have. it sound bright. like they don't contain the tweeter.
@tardcore4life5 ай бұрын
I miss the Cerwin Vega LS-12s I had in college.
@AudiophileStooge6 ай бұрын
Thanks Danny.
@michaelchurchill18896 ай бұрын
I played bass thru a 18” cv with a peavey 210 watt head and the dance floor was always dancing
@user5400002 ай бұрын
they were very sensitive, 92db would go super loud, never tried even half of full volume on my receiver they would damage your ears. you could use these as out door PA speakers if you really wanted to
@edjackson43896 ай бұрын
I used those exact tweeters in a 3-way party box I built to sit in the back of my truck. We use it for tailgating and beach parties. I have them crossed at 5k hz and they sound amazing in that application. Very loud and sparkley without being shrill or fatiguing even when sitting 6ft away. I do have L-pads on them so I can match them with the PRV mids
@gregmatula97496 ай бұрын
Bullet tweeter, easy way to the 100db spec published. And it was cheaper than a Klipsch.😅 Caught my eye as a teenager.
@mattholland3156 ай бұрын
Nice job Danny. Are you ever tempted to embrace some of the original design aims? For this speaker maybe a rising HF would be a good thing? Looks like the HF drops off a lot off axis so some on-axis boost might be desirable. And a smiley curve response would keep this speaker sounding like a party speaker.
@scottlowell4933 ай бұрын
My first upgrade was the Mx-400. The cabinet needed bracing and insulation. The crossover was junk. The drivers were awful. Basically, sound reinforcement in a home cabinet. Harsh tweeter, boomy, muddy and too much midrange came out of the woofer.
@Bradimus16 ай бұрын
That's a pretty impressive improvement, Richie!
@glennbaxter45076 ай бұрын
Aarrgghh! I sold mid-fi in the '70s and this was one of our brands. It paid a decent commission, so I didn't exactly refuse to sell it, but I sure chose my customers. If someone brought in a jazz or classical album, I knew that he would be returning it if I let him out the door. If he came in with anything recorded on the Mercury label, I knew that he would like it. One time we had a grand opening and Gene Czerwinski and a regional manager (I think that his name was Geoff) came out and spent some time in our store. They were really bugged anytime that I did not push a CV. They did not like my explanation.
@shipsahoy17936 ай бұрын
it always cracks me up how dust caps are always pushed in on at least one speaker in a cabinet.. I don't know what the hell is wrong with people .. they can't keep their stupid grubby fingers to themselves..😂
@ericschulze56416 ай бұрын
Typically, undisciplined children, not adults, ohh they're just being children, it's OK if they destroy everything they touch
@MrRjm1456 ай бұрын
Cats and kids!!
@shipsahoy17936 ай бұрын
@@MrRjm145 I believe you.. I'm allergic to cats and I avoid kids..😉
@bdc2116 ай бұрын
i used to push me some dust caps as a kid... my dad always had stacks of speakers to the ceilings, with inverted dust caps...
@shipsahoy17936 ай бұрын
@@bdc211 something to be proud of lol
@user-vp2ig3rf8x5 ай бұрын
Where i live ,those speakers get sold for an arm,leg and a kidney.
@thomasmolitor9606 ай бұрын
Need to do a D-9 or 317p or RE38. I have had many of them . Still have the 317p and RE38. I happen to enjoy them very much. Running on a Onkyo TX-NR809. If you have to use analyzers to say they are not good. You've missed the mark. Ofcourse nothing is ever perfect. And sound is going to be infinitely variable unless you have a dedicated sound booth.
@hisWACness4 ай бұрын
Interesting video. I have a set of DX-9s and some DX-1s that I'd love to upgrade. I'm actually planning a 5.1 setup with these using older Adcom power amps. I honestly don't need a sub, as the DX-9s shake the house as-is. But, who doesn't love more bass? 😂 Sub'd and looking forward to more of your content.
@magicphred6 ай бұрын
I own a set of D5's with the 15" Woofer - It has the same x-over, mid & tweet. It has a better balance.
@jimjones15056 ай бұрын
The original disco speaker ,, bass baby
@robinkleinsteuber52176 ай бұрын
Ooooohhh, boy! This be the speaka that the high end boys an' gals absolutely drool over in complete jealousy! 😂🤣🤣 Another amazingly good video! 👍
@StrangeBrewReviews6 ай бұрын
Would love to see what you could come up with for the XLS215...maybe a 3.5 way.
@PetePeety28 күн бұрын
Yeah, me too. Had an original pair of D9s I recently I replaced them with XLS215. Honestly the ancient D 9s blow the doors of the new china built XLS215s. Not even close.
@dan-qe1tb6 ай бұрын
Geez! Didn't know they were still around.
@jallen12276 ай бұрын
Those look like my initial college speakers in the late '80s before "upgrading" to 901s
@hanksta346 ай бұрын
If it weren't for the distinctive orangy red foam ring, this fleabag would have gone the way of the Chevy Vega.
@Poppinwheeeeellllllieeeeez6 ай бұрын
AT-12's I just refinished in the basement shine wth live music recordings. Blues specifically. The Bass drum hit is remarkable. Not keepers, but fun to play with. Also good for EDM music. $461 USD is about $460 USD too much.
@wekkimeif77205 ай бұрын
Ahh good that I watched this before looking for refurbished one. Not being able to even play whole audible range is bummer.
@wekkimeif77205 ай бұрын
@@morlidor What you say about KRK Rokit 8 G3? Think it covers from 40hz to 20 khz as advertised?
@beesting61356 ай бұрын
Great legendary speakers
@user-oq9mv8pc2g6 ай бұрын
The D7 when hooked up to the right amp had the best taunt bass for rock I ever heard. Nothing could beat there punch period. Unfortunately the rest of the speaker sounded pretty bad
@dannyrichie97436 ай бұрын
Not anymore. Now the rest of it sounds pretty good too.