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Re: Cerwin Vega VS-150's

Cerwin Vega is not a hi-fi line. It's a boom box. Do you know what speaker system Q is? "Q" is the relationship between stored and dissapated energy. High Q speakers like JBL, Cerwin Vega, et all continue to play bass notes long after the bass guitar and amp have stopped playing those notes. They do exactly what those totally obnoxious car audio systems do, just to a lesser extent. There is only one word for this. Distortion. It's not music. That note has stopped. Speaker still plays it. It's not how you define great rock speakers. Idealy, what you want is a speaker that plays what it is sent....adding or subtracting nothing. The less garbage you have in the signal path, the better. Thats why the best pre-amps have NO tone controls, NO balance, No loudness button. Straight in.....straight out. Hope this helps. Listen to some higher end speaker lines. The Paradigm line is a fairly good example. Listen to the Studio 40's. Close your eyes and allow yourself to hear the soundstage the speakers create. Listen to vocals.......accoustic instruments. Piano, guitar. Jazz..........can you follow every note of every instrument? Can you hear emotion in the singers voice? Then take those same cd's and listen again to the Cerwin Vega's. Won't take long for you to hear what i'm talking about. You just need to train your ears to listen to music instead of noise.


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