How much are 4 Cerwin-Vega AT-15's worth?

[Charlie04SiR]

What "audiophile" speakers did you compare them with? Did the name begin with the letter "B"?
Any speaker that comes from the factory needing "a little care and ingenuity" is by definition not worth buying.
FYI: Over the years I've heard lots of CV speakers new and used. They all sounded awful.

Joe, I appreciate your insights, however, ALL speakers need some amount of "care and ingenuity" ranging from as little as placement to as major as crossover tweaks to get them to sound right. We all hear differently and that is a fact of life. There are just too many variables that come to mind with getting the desired sound output from pretty much ANY speaker. The same speaker can sound radically different with different amplification and that's a fact. I too have heard many, many, many speakers in my time, and I base my opinion of any speaker solely on how it is set-up in placement, amplification, room acoustics, parameters, and imaging. So many people buy big power handling speakers and small amps and think they are gonna have big sound. I can't believe how many people are so ingnorant when it comes to matching the right speakers and amps to get the desired sound they want. I've seen too many times fellas have these huge speakers rated to 200-300-400 watts and they have them hooked up to the cheapest, cheesiest receiver or amplifier. I have also witnessed folks who automatically bash something they hear when it is incorrectly set up with mis-matched components. Must I go on some more??

[JoeE SP9]

Sorry, but placement issues are normal for any speaker.

Installing new crossovers with adjusted bandwidths and roll offs to make a speaker sound good?

Rating speakers by a wattage means just about nothing.

It's a given that many people have poorly matched gear in their systems. However, that has nothing to do with having to re-engineer a speaker in order to make it tolerable to the ear.

I'm not pushing any speaker or dissing any. It's a little strange that someone touting a speaker has to heavily modify them to make them sound good to themselves. Frankly that doesn't say much for the speaker. It makes me wonder why you didn't buy something that sounded good in the first place.