Check out these Old School CVs!

Rob Babcock · « **on:** 18 Dec 2004, 12:00 pm »

Get a load of these babies!

500 Watt power handling, 2 x 15" woofs per side. You could bury a great ape in each of these bad boys! I'll bet there's not a single brace of any kind nor 12 oz of fill in both cabs combined, but I'll bet you drop the hammer on these and every phone within 3 blocks will be dialing 911.

Man, back in my college days I'd have killed to have these in my dorm room come "Blowout Hour"!

I'm sure they're not hifi, but I was surprised than anyone still made bruisers like this so I thought I'd post the pic.

Tonto Yoder · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 12:26 pm »

Quote from: Rob Babcock

You could bury a great ape in each of these bad boys!

Over my dead body!

Tonto Yoder · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 12:27 pm »

WerTicus · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 01:42 pm »

for people who like their sound BAD and LOUD

JLM · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 01:52 pm »

These are similar to the Klipsch RF-7, that BTW sound damn good with SETs. Klipsch's biggest failure of the past 30 or so years has been the loss of popularity of low powered tube amps and their decision to try the mass market. At 102 dB/w/m the RF-7s, like most Klipsch speakers, typically never need more than 1 watt for residential use (usually about 0.01 wpc for serious listening) and thats where SETs shine over most solid state, especially the mass market stuff.

Scott F. · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 03:37 pm »

Quote from: JLM

These are similar to the Klipsch RF-7, that BTW sound damn good with SETs. Klipsch's biggest failure of the past 30 or so years has been the loss of popularity of low powered tube amps and their decision to try the mass market. At 102 dB/w/m the RF-7s, like most Klipsch speakers, typically never need more than 1 watt for residential use (usually about 0.01 wpc for serious listening) and thats where SETs shine over most solid state, especially the mass market stuff.

I agree completely. One of the dealers here locally sells the RF and Heritage sereis but he also custom designs SETs and pre's. We do ton's of listening on those and they sound right fine. Some of the old CV and JBL pro horns sound really good.

As it is with nearly any horn, shove the wrong piece of solid state in front of them and you'll wish you were born deaf.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 08:48 pm »

These big CVs aren't truly horns- true they have a waveguide, but the website states they have a "6.5 inch fiber impregnated midrange" and a 1 inch soft dome tweeter. Different than the compression drivers of the new/better Klipsch.

I'm not saying these would sound good, but it takes me back to my idea of what good sound was 20-25 years ago. Back in HS, all I wanted was to 1) feel the bass thru my chest and 2) have a louder & bigger stereo than my pals Eddie & Warren!

soundboy · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 09:10 pm »

These CV's are designed by Bill Bush, the man behind NHT's Super series of speakers, i.e. NHT SuperOne. There's a bookshelf version of the one pictured.

Go to the "High Efficiency" section of audioasylum.com and search for mods from Bill himself.

Don't let the looks deceive you.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Dec 2004, 11:50 pm »

That's interesting- first thing I thought when I saw them (well, after thinking "Cool!") was that popping the woof's and gluing in some dowls to brace and lining them with some foam/black hole 5 or stuffing them might make them respectable rock speakers.

I'd like to hear them modded with a big Crown amp pounding it out!

Tonto Yoder · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 Dec 2004, 12:23 am »

I sold a pair of Luxman amps on eBay to a guy on AudioKarma who used them with some Cerwin-Vegas (a model that was never put into production). He was shooting for max volume; in fact, he had other speakers on the other side of the same room with another amp(s) going simultaneously.

MaxCast · « **Reply #10 on:** 19 Dec 2004, 12:27 am »

Ohhh the memories. I still have a pair of D-7's cira 1984. Wanna buy 'em?

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 Dec 2004, 01:21 am »

I remember the D-7's well, Max. In the late 80's I spent 2 days in BB shopping for speakers (back when they had Infinity Kappas, Hafler amps, etc). I had it narrowed down to some D-7's and some Infinity SM-150+'s. In the end the Infinity's simply sounded better, more bass definition, smoother highs & better midrange. I used them thru the later 80's and into the early 90's before my lust for power was replaced by an appreciation of subtlty (about the time I got into classical music more seriously).

MaxCast · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 Dec 2004, 02:04 am »

Rob, didn't know they had BB's back then

I remember seeing them in a Bb type place called Highland Appliance.

I bought mine used for 400 (800 list I think) about 1986 (The speakers have a mfg date of 1984 on the back). About 3 years ago I had and sold (for a profit) a pair of SM-152's.....I agree, I should have sold the CV's.

With all this nastalgia (sp) I'll have to hook up the CV's in the main room and let em rip with some old Judas Priest, scorps and the like.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 Dec 2004, 02:15 am »

One hour per day my residence hall at USD had "blowout hour." During that time you were allowed to blast the jams as loud as you liked. But between my SM-150+'s and my roomies 120X120 JVC amp, we occasionally were ordered to turn it down even then.

God, we cranked a lot of Judas Priest & Ozzy Osbourne...

Yes, they were a legend in the Burgess-Norton complex! Infamous would be closer to the truth. I was also famous for my vast CD collection- I had (gasp) over 50 Compact Discs!

There were only two of us in the whole hall with players at all, and he had 8 discs. In fact, as a jock on the college station, I used to take my own CD player into the booth and wire it into the console before my show! I was one of the first guys to play CDs on the air in my whole state as far as I can tell. Man, those were the days.