industry electronics founded 1954 ; 62 years ago 1954 founder gene czerwinski headquarters chatsworth california 1 united states area served worldwide products loudspeakers amplifiers home theaters website cerwinvega.com cerwin vega is a manufacturing company that produces professional audio components such as home audio speakers and car audio components . on december 5 2011 it was announced that the stanton group had been purchased by the famous gibson guitar company . this purchase and others spawned the beginning of the gibson pro audio division . before then and as a result of its bankruptcy as a private company c v was sold and became part of the stanton group along with stanton magnetics and krk a professional audio division focused on quality studio recording speakers . cerwin vega sells internationally from two main locations ; one in deerfield beach fl and the other location in brussels belgium while manufacturing their pro products primarily in malaysia and home products primarily in china . contents 1 history 2 currently 3 references 4 external links history edit cerwin vega dual 15 inch speaker cabinet . cerwin vega was founded as vega laboratories with later name changes to vega associates and then cerwin vega by aerospace engineer gene czerwinski 1927 2010 in 1954 and became noted for producing an 18 speaker capable of producing 130 db in spl at 30 hz an astonishing level during its time . another breakthrough product the world s first solid state amplifier was released in 1957 . in addition to these innovations the company became well known for supplying speakers for electric musical instrument companies such as fender as well as for movie theaters all through the 1970s . 2 cerwin vega participated in sensurround technology which was developed in conjunction with universal studios in the 1970s . sensurround was a movie theater special effects speaker system which used multiple cerwin vega folded horn subwoofers triggered by an optical soundtrack system to create low frequency effects which simulated vibrations felt during an earthquake or a battle scene . sensurround was premiered in the 1974 movie earthquake and was a great success but most sensurround units were later dismantled due to structural damage caused by the vibrations . the earliest known vega laboratory speakers were hand made and contained jensen branded woofers sealed mid ranges and horn tweeters in a ported enclosure with a vega labs built crossover . early speaker from vega labs vega labs speaker crossover earliest known models have no serial number or model numbers on the crossovers plates and these are believed to be production prototypes of what would become c v s popular 12 3 way speaker systems . in the early 1970s cerwin vega began marketing their residential line of speakers with the model 24 and model 26 . in the late 1970s and early 1980s cerwin vega released models a 10 a 123 r 10 10 inch 2 way system r 12 12 inch 2 way system r 123 12 inch 3 way system 12tr 12 inch tower reflecting horn and 15t tower speakers with 12 and 15 downward firing woofers and the model s 1 bookshelf speakers . the s 1 speaker system was the crowning achievement for cerwin vega . citation needed by utilizing a sixth order butterworth vent tuning and integrating the system with cerwin vega s db 10b bass turbocharger included with the s 1 speakers the low frequency range of the s 1 was increased beyond the capabilities of larger enclosures . cerwin vega also delivered various models of efficient semi horn dhorm speakers including the a 10 a 123 and s 1 . they featured 10 or 12 woofers and often twin mid range drivers in a ported enclosure . they were touted to deliver up to 126 decibels of sound pressure . currently edit today cerwin vega is mostly known for its woofers and subwoofers capable of delivering high sound level output with comparatively low frequency ranges using low power input . their pro audio line is also noted for affordable price levels . in addition to home audio and pro audio speakers cerwin vega has a full range of automobile component speakers and subwoofers ; the stroker series of subwoofer has been a favorite of high spl db drag competition winning awards as early as 1996 . cerwin vega continues to sell home audio speakers mobile audio speakers subwoofers and amplifiers and pro audio speakers and subwoofers for live performance reinforcement . on july 2 2007 cerwin vega s parent company the stanton group announced the sale of cerwin vega s mobile division to cvm acquisition services a sister company to diamond audio technologies llc . shortly thereafter cerwin vega launched cerwin vega active cva a new line of active speakers using direct firing subwoofers cva 115 cva 118 and cva 121 in 15 18 and 21 driver sizes and a tri amped dual 8 top box cva 28 at the start of 2006 cerwin vega launched the cerwin vega passive cvp series a range of bi ampable high spl top cabinets to pair with the refreshed line of vega bass subs which includes the new ts 42 21 folded horn . references edit cerwin vega makes move to chatsworth calif. based headquarters on mixonline.com gregory j. wilcox august 11 2010 . valley man who revolutionized audio dies at 83 . los angeles daily news . retrieved 12 august 2010 . external links edit official website cvm acquisitions website v t e gibson guitar corporation established 1902 founder orville gibson key figures orville gibson lloyd loar ted mccarty seth lover les paul henry juszkiewicz david harvey guitars electric current gibson eds 1275 es series explorer firebird flying v l 4 l 5 les paul moderne sg super 400 discontinued byrdland blueshawk citation corvus futura l6 s little lucille marauder nighthawk rd sonex spirit 335 s acoustic current j series dove hummingbird discontinued advanced jumbo b series chet atkins sst l 1 basses current grabber les paul bass thunderbird discontinued eb 0 eb 1 eb 2 eb 3 g3 mandolins f5 f5 g f5 l f9 doyle lawson sam bush amplifiers atlas medalist atlas iv bass amp discoverer duo medalist eh 150 explorer falcon ga series keh les paul junior medalist 4 10 mercury medalist power stealth skylark super goldtone subsidiaries cakewalk cerwin vega epiphone esoteric integra kramer maestro onkyo 16.5 % stanton steinberger teac corporation tascam 54.4 % tobias brands chickering and sons dobro original orville slingerland website gibson.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cerwin vega & oldid 729869901 categories loudspeaker manufacturersmusic equipment manufacturershidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2008 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages dansknederlandsnorsk bokm lsloven inasvenska edit links this page was last modified on 15 july 2016 at 03 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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