Cerwin vega v-35 18inch pa/bandspeakers spec??? i picked up a pair

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http://www.djshopping.com/v-35x.html

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Edited by crazyrob425 - 2/11/13 at 12:19pm

Is that really necessary? I mean if you want to help then help, but don't post the answer and then make a snide comment about it.

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Entirely agree

I mean come on, anything else we can get for you while we're at it?

JBL, perhaps another way to approach some of your very first posts may have been, "hey, here's what I've got, here's what I've found out, .. anyone have any additional information, like power handling etc?" Maybe discuss what you've discovered info-wise, and begin there.


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Having been a working pro FOH engineer, a home audio enthusiast since the 70's, DJ'ing thru the 80's 90's, and being a CV owner, I'm somewhat aware of what CV has out there. Upon first seeing your question, a quick Google search I performed returned images, a product manual download, discussion of the product, and it's variations etc. All in a brief minute or two, .. tops. It's all out there.

Another avenue is if you could examine the actual drivers and dividing network, that may give you additional info. Wattage for loudspeakers, may or may not actually be helpful. With a doubling of power at best merely adding 3dB in SPL, a couple hundred watts in such a product will be fine, and much more will near it's thermal limits and not significantly adding clean playback (especially if the product has seen better days, as loudspeakers in this genre get abused).

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I've got a pair of v29's myself with 15" woofers and horn tweets. Cerwin Vega generally overkills durability on their products in my experience, I run an 800 watt rms 2 channel amp into mine and got some minor distortion the other day from my kick drum when i cranked them up further than i ever had before (quite a bit louder than my acoustic set ).
They are probably somewhere around the area of 200 watts into 4 ohms but you'll want a versatile amp just to be safe.
Keep in mind they are effecient speakers and won't need alot of power for a home environment and when you double the volume coming from your amp you are actually sending 10x the power.
All that said any old amp will do and with more effecient speakers you will likely distort or reach max cone excursion before toasting them, They really are quite a step above any of the cheap gear out there these days, the sheer speed of them alone is enough to make any bass player or drummer grin

WHAT!!! : Are you condemning these to a car??? How are you even going to fit them in
These are definetly not car subs you will blow the crap out of them with 500 watts rms. They are built to be effecient and throw volume over long distances but they are not one note subwoofers. If you want something for your car you should buy a car sub. With all due respect of course

That's what effiecient speakers can do, once you start looking past "watts" and pay more attention to the efficiency/sensitivity you can start pinpointing speakers that will play ridiculously loud without drawing much power. Unfortunately specs other than watts aren't found to much in the car audio world.

If my knowledge is correct (could be rusty) a 10 decibel increase equates to doubling the volume of a speaker but it takes 10x the watts to make that 10db increase happen.
So if speaker A is capable of 90db efficiency/sensitivity at 1 watt, and speaker b is capable of 100db efficiency/sensitivity at 1 watt (10db difference isn't outrageously uncommon in the real world) then speaker "a" needs 10 watts to hit the same volume.
Where things get ridiculous and power ratings become relatively useless is when you want to hit 120db with both speakers, where speaker "a" would need 1000 watts (say goodbye to speaker "A" ) and speaker b would only need 100 watts (within the limits of decent woofers).

It gets even more annoying when companies list max power specs rather than rms (continuous even power capability) because the speakers can only hope to manage maximum power for miniscule amounts of time (think milliseconds).

In the end though most people don't really want to spend big money on their car sound system to have it sound amazing because most people don't spend all their time in their car.