Cerwin Vega! VE-28S Dual 8″ Powered Subwoofer Best Review
I would like to contribute and provide a review for this sub since there is not much out there.
I upgraded from a Yamaha yst-215 8 subwoofer. I purchased this sub because it fits in the discrete spot where my wife accepts it at less than 10′ width. She is very decore picky. If I could spend more I probably would of went with a velodyne minivee 8 inch sub.
My system
Harman Kardon AVR 347
Polk SurroundBar50
Klipsch KHC-6 in ceiling speakers as rears.
Cerwin Vega VE-28s
PS3
Samsung 52 lcd “71″ series
The first I thing I noticed when connecting the VE-28s is an annoying humming sound. It drove me crazy and I almost considered retuning this sub. Did not have this problem on my old sub. Yahoo Answers say to try using a 3 to 2 prong plug adapter. It actually worked! 50 cents well spent. Some argue it is not recommended to do this but I simply don’t feel like troubleshooting a ground loop problem and want to play with the sub!
Music,
I felt the bass was not tight enough for rock type music. It sounded mushy. Wasn’t crisp. My hip hop and techno tracks sounds great. I think sealed subs are best for music applications.
I tried the sock in the port method to tighten up the bass a little. It did help but it took away the subs efficiency and did not produce a strong bass without the sock. I usually have the volume knob 50% to avoid distortion. With the sock I had to increase volume and it introduced distortion. The sock method worked well at low easy listing volumes and high amplification.
Home Theater,
This is where I think this sub performs best. With its a ported design (huge 4 inch port). It hits lows and booms well with home theater tracks.
I’ve watch these blu-ray titles so far with this sub.
CloverField – The thumps and explosions were very earth shaking. I can literally feel the socks shake on my ankles and it feels as if there is a thumping monster in my backyard.
Beowulf -The scene where Beowulf battles the dragon the bass rattles the china on its shelves in the kitchen which is a good distance away. Sounds very good.
Overall this sub is a much improvement over my last sub. I haven’t been exposed to allot of subs but I can say that I am satisfied with this sub for the application that I am using it for. The price tag is very fair and won’t break the bank as allot of subs out there.
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Cerwin Vega! VE-28S Dual 8″ Powered Subwoofer Feature
- 125W high efficiency amplifier
- Frequency Response – 20Hz – 180Hz
- Power handling – 125W RMS, 150W Peak
- Dimensions – Height 9.8 x Width 20.8 x Depth 22 inches
- Weight – 32 pounds
Cerwin Vega! VE-28S Dual 8″ Powered Subwoofer Overview
CERWIN-VEGA VE-28S 8″, 150-Watt VE Series Subwoofer * 150W max, 125W RMS;* Dual 8″ cast frame woofers with vintage red surrounds ;* 120W high-efficiency design amplifier;* Freq resp: 30 Hz180 Hz;* Legendary CV bass-reflex in sleek, mini-tower design;* 9.8″H x 20.8″W x22″D; Each; “8″”, 150-Watt VE Series Subwoofer”
Customer Reviews
Great amp… but beware! – Merrick – Vienna, VA
I have been using CV products since my first pair of D5’s in the early 80’s. They are simply fantastic speakers. And, with qualifications, this subwoofer is no exception. The performance is amazing… when it works. The problem is with the amplifier. There is a flaw in the design and poor support from CV. I bought my September 2008. By Tannksgiving the amp had blown. I tried in vane to get a local shop listed as a service center to repair the amp and was ridiculed by the staff and offered a subwoofer for four times the price as a “real speaker.” I was forced to ship the speaker (at my expense) back to CV in Florida and waited three months to get it back. Within six months the new amp blew out as well.
I’ve tried to contact CV multiple times and have been ignored so far. Finally, I found the following. Google “Help fixing Cerwin Vega ve28s” and follow the AudioKarma link. Read the entire thread. This was a known problem for CV with a solution posted no later than June 2007. And the repair I paid shipping charges and waited several months for was accomplished by replacing my bad amp with a “new” replacement amp that predated the posted fix and hadn’t been updated.
I ordered the replacement parts online and so far everything works perfectly. Great amp… finally.
If you aren’t willing to risk getting a subwoofer off the shelf that requires this fix and are also willing to perform it yourself I sadly recommend not getting this item.
But for this, I would give the subwoofer five stars. It actually deserves one star, but since I was able to fix it I gave it three.
FOR THE MUSIC LOVER…AND EVERYONE ELSE – Thomas D. Christianson – Ashland, WI United States
Before making this purchase, I tried to go cheap and bought the “POLK AUDIO 10″ MONITOR”. It was D.O.A. right out of the box! So, having not learned my lesson, I went ahead and bought the “SONY SA-3000 12″. It sounded as terrible as it looked. I worked with it for 3 weeks, and could not get any acceptable sound. Then I decided to spend a bit more and purchased this “CERWIN-VEGA! VE-28S”(finally learned my lesson)! Hook up was pretty easy, and I had it adjusted into my system in about 5 min. It looks very elegant and classie in my living room. As other reviewers have testified, it is great for DVDs and BLU-RAY. However, I am a music lover and use mine mostly for that purpose, and it sounds wonderful. I listen mainly to classic rock, big band, blues,and symphonic. It has deep rich bass, which is also very lively and tight(the perfect combination to make your music collection come alive). I have been using subs for about 15 years, and have owned around a dozen different quality brands,(some costing over twice as much as this one). I mention that because this sub is proving itself to be the finest sounding of them all. Another reviewer said he sold his speakers and replaced them all with “CERWIN-VEGA!” after hearing this subwoofer. Sounds like an excellent idea to me. I’ll be doing the same, just as soon as I can talk my lovely lady into it. One last thought here. It has been my experience that the subs with 8″ to 10″ cones are best for music, while the subs with larger cones do better for home theater applications…This sub does it all. Highly recommended!
Peace,
Tom
Great while it works, but don’t expect it to last. – Randle McMurphy – Macon, GA, USA
I bought this item in February of ‘07 for my home theatre system. Swank. Basstacular. Come July, the thing starts making this funny noise when it’s in “Standby” mode. Sort of a white-noise growl-y rumble. Think of far-off thunder and you’ll be close. Awesome when your Harley Hog makes that noise, not so great when your subwoofer starts making it at 3:00 in the morning when it’s not even supposed to be switched on.
Okay, so I checked around, found a service center in Atlanta (BTW – I live in Middle GA) that can do warranty work. Took it to them, they kept it a month, didn’t bother calling me back. Finally called them, they said it was fixed, I went and got it. THEY’D NEVER EVEN OPENED THE CASE. So – obviously – not fixed. I called and complained, got so ticked off I finally just left it unplugged and said “…to heck with it.” Decided in November that I wanted to get it fixed, so I took it to a shop in Columbus, who kept it for TWO MONTHS before calling me to say that they couldn’t fix it, I should just come get it and ship it back to Cerwin-Vega in Florida.
Okay, so I did that. C-V kept the thing three weeks, then sent me a replacement unit. Got this replacement in late January of this 2008. Thing has worked fine ever since. No problems. No complaints.
It’s now July of ‘08, and guess what?
The new sub is doing EXACTLY what the old one did. And, before anyone says anything, yes, I have tried it with different systems. It makes the noise regardless of which receiver it’s plugged into, and it even makes it when it’s not plugged into anything.
So – I’m telling everyone I know. If you’re speaker shopping, stay away from Cerwin-Vega. Their products are defective and their service centers are completely incompetent.
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