Cerwin Vega were the IASCA champions for about twenty years. Infact, it was them who adapted their PA speakers into the car audio world and basically invented in car subwoofers.
Over recent years they are not as good. Basically they used to all be made in the USA until Stanton group took over in 2001. However, some of the ideas remain although the founders would turn in their graves if they realised Stanton group were making 'Inner tube speakers'.
They were also responsible for the world's most powerful subs and again, held many world records.
Ah yes, here we go. Here is what I used to use years ago.
The slogan was bloody funny... "Imagine a nuclear blast without all that nasty melting flesh? Stroker series subwoofers"...
1600w RMS. And when I say RMS I mean, RMS. They had a flash point of 7200w and that was only because the braid cables used to snap. The coil wire looked like solid 240v copper mains wire. I tried to cut an old coil in half with a pair of scissors and snapped the scissors
If you wondered why it looks odd like that it's because it has a top spider and a bottom spider. The pole in the middle has a carrier plate and you could adjust it to adjust the frequency of the woofer. See, many people complained that 18 inch subs had no punchy accurate bass, so they addressed it and fixed the issue
I do strongly reccomend their subs though. For the main reason that they offer ridiculous sensitivity 1w/1m meaning with very little power they will blow your head clean off. Ahhhh, here we go. Old shot of my system in London.
Left most pic, Cerwin Vega Stroker 18 in a trapezoidal folded horn (clone of the intense woofer, got blueprints from Cerwin Vega.
On the right my amp rack, consisting of a Soundmaster 4000VZ running 2ohm @ around 6000w. If you look closely you can see the baked bean can sized caps in the back lol. Also note the top amp? £3000 Rogers E40a Phono valve amp running the mids and highs. Bottom most picture shows a set of Crown Macrom 10" mids with compression horns and a set of Bose 6" mids (look at the cupboard flaps). What you can't see are the 4 other 6" mids in the ceiling.
Loud? Well in the end I paid a £700 fine to the council. Thankfully they were forgiving and let me keep my gear but it never really got used after that. The complaint came from accross the street where this old house had those steel framed crittle windows and his glass used to rattle when I cranked it.
Ed. Here you go dude, the build out of my Tiburon (final one).
Two sets of Clif design mid component sets. Cost? too much. 6" went into the stock mounts, 4" went here
Heating ducts removed haha.
My last sub box. Again folded horn, birch ply
Note this weird bit?
Watch.
Two amps and one of these.
4f cap. It worked like this
And the sub was mounted internally, working like this.
Hence the term folded horn, it literally pressures up and fires bass, similar to a bandpass only more accurate.
Cooling was taken care of here.
And the sort of final product, before I carpetted the top and bottom.
Now the reason I said don't buy JBL is because I had a 1200w 10" in there and my Marc Anthony MKII managed to burn it out. Smoked the whole bleeding car out
Mark Anthony was an amp made by Cerwin Vega. A bloody great beast. Many subs fell victim to this, inc RF, JBL, Lightning (division of RF) among others. In the end I put in a Cerwin Vega Vega 10.
