Excellent range low to high. Engaging details Captivating roomfeeling and 3D perspective Great dynamics

Can't think of any!? 🤔

Amazing imaging and seperation . beautiful mids. I am very happy and enen amazed at the quality. Amust hear speaker. I audited them before buying and though ok what is the big deal but after set up at home I had to pick up my jaw from the floor!!!

CAN'T SAY STILL SEETTING UP FOR OPTIMAL BASS.

I have to write about my experence. I have been auditing speakers most of my llife . I have audited many speakers and always prefered Dahlquist dq-10 in the eighties and found them hard to beat but as time went on I have owned many nice speakers in my price range. I have had a CJ MV-55 AMP AND Audible Illusions preamp as well as a muse model 9 transport and a Ead 9000II DAC. along with many cable changes. Anyway recently I purchased the snell CV and though I would play them for a while and probably sell them as I have done with many other speakers in the past. But after hooking these up to my system I must say I will never sell them I was in shock when I turned up the volume. I am running a modest rotel RCD-950 TO A DAC AND CAN'T BELIVE MY EARS. If it's the last thing you do it should be to find a pair and haul them home and you will be hooked As I am. my favorite passtime is reading reviews and auditing equipment and or buying used equipment. I finally found my favorite cables cd player and speakers of all time And have had many nice amps and preamps.

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A very good Wide,height and depth sound image,whit excellent rhythm and a deep and clean fast bass.This speakers can play very loud,and not lose a thing of their brilliant quality.

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Snell E3 was my first experience with the snell sound,and what a music insight those speakers had,you forget all about technical,is just the music who is in the front seat.And that is same with C/V but much better in all area,they are just amazeing speakers who drawn you towards and in to the music.

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- Bass weight and extension - Soundstage - Detail - Dynamics - Fairly neutral

- Big and heavy. This may not be a problem for some folks but once spiked to the floor you don't want to think about moving them often. They are imposing in a room.

I haven't read any of the magazine reviews but I do know the speaker was wel regarded. The Snell C line seems to have lived in Stereophile's Class B since it was introduced. It was designed by Kevin Voecks, who's now leading the engineering efforts at Revel, part of the Madrigal Group. His design approach is still the same with a focus on accuracy (this can mean a lot of things to a lot of folks but the Revel website contains Kevin's latest thinking on the subject.) I had an interesting experience with this speaker. I bought them as an upgrade to my old Snell Cis. I initially was forced to set up my system with the C/Vs in more or less a square and reflective room that was also probably too small. In this room, the speakers were unlistenable - hard, glaring, soft bass. Ugghhh! I was having the same experience as one reviewer from England had posted on this speaker a while ago (which isn't up now). He called the speakers vulgar. I would have had to agreed. But I knew the speakers were interacting with the room in nasty way but was not at liberty to fix this. This was not the speaker with the reputation I understood it to have, and it didn't approach the performance of the old Ci in this space. Well, finally setting them up in a different room yeilded excellent results. They were tranformed. Big soundstage, detailed and subtle while also powerful with tremendous weight and dynamics. The bass response is excellent - tight, controlled and remarkably extended for a speaker of its cabinet size. There's enough bass there for me. I've never gotten them to totally disappear like some other speakers can do. Talk with the Snell folks they're very fond of the old Es, Ds, and Cs. All of these were popular and well regarded speakers. I've used them with a number of digital front ends and amplifiers. They've worked well with everything I've used them with. They do a good job of revealing the differences of gear behind them.

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Dynamics,soundstage,frekvens respons,very good 3d etc etc.

For the bucks none.

I have listen to very wide range of loudspeakers that
cost lot more then my CV and I can really say that my
snells are a bargain.
I really agree with Corey Greenberg(the reviewer of Stereophile)when he wrote that the vast majority of high-end speakers on the market suck but the CV doesn`t suck.
He also wrote that he think`s it kick a pretty impressive amount of ass for the bucks and I can say that I agree.
My brother own`s a pair of snell B-minor and I can say the same about these speaker that they really can play music on
a high level.
The bottom line is: Snell does high quality speakers that suit all from rock to classic.

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semplicemente grandiosa! immagine grandissima,dettaglio, estensione della gamma bassa, ariosità e equilibrio timbrico.

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Dopo un'accurata selezione dell'amplificazione(io consiglio Classè Cap 151 o Electrocompaniet Ec1),sono giunto alla conclusione che in questo range di prezzo non c'è confronto con altri diffusori! e se penso che in America costano soltanto $2500, mi convinco sempre di più che siamo di fronte a un diffusore eccezionale, che non fa rimpiangere le precedenti c iv, altro diffusore assolutamente indimenticabile!!
Very thanks Peter........

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accuracy, smoothness, dynamics, price

weight

The word "Best" is not enough if any one wants to purches any loud speaker within 5000$.

I changed a lot of loud speaker but this.
Not Because it's weight.. ^^;

I heard many fields of music, and my snell can play all of my favorites with wonderful dynamics, impact and mood..

I'm happy. ^^

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Here's what the Snell site says about the C/V. I thought it might help answer some questions. Can't hurt.

The Snell Type C/V is a significant advance in the evolution of the renowned Type C Loudspeaker series. Design advances have created a three-way system that more than fulfills the requirements for today's demanding multipurpose home entertainment needs, while ensuring the highest-quality music reproduction. As with all Snell designs, the Type C/V offers exceptional tonal balance, sonic clarity, and astonishing dynamic range. Extensive double blind listening tests have proven its superior performance when compared against competitive loudspeaker brands costing as much as twice the price of the new Type CV.












The woofer configuration in the Type CV includes two eight inch custom designed drivers. Each driver is mounted on the baffle at different heights which serves to optimize bass performance by minimizing room and boundary interactions at low frequencies. This strategy, earlier trademarked by Snell as "Room Ready", refers to a design technology which specifically enables competent bass performance within a variety of real world listening environments.

The use of sophisticated high order crossover networks and impedance compensation circuits result in tremendous power handling and dynamic range, together with low distortion and optimized on-and-off axis frequency response. The frequency response of the Type CV is extremely flat to within +-2 dB from 24 Hz to 20 kHz (half space anechoic) both on axis and as much as 30 degrees off-axis. High sensitivity (efficiency) permits driving the Type CV with as low as 50 watt amplifiers, while high power handling capabilities allow for the use of amplifiers up to 250 watts.


To ensure that these exceptional performance values are enjoyed to their fullest in the final listening environment, Snell Acoustics employs unique production processes whereby each crossover/driver set for every loudspeaker model produced is hand tuned to match the master reference design to within a .5 dB tolerance. Investing in this level of production consistency guarantees that the customer will enjoy the same performance standard set by the Design Engineer with the original reference design. In addition to this level of attention to detail, a three hundred percent quality control procedure is followed throughout all production stages to secure optimum performance consistency as well as superior construction quality. In summary, both the design and production techniques utilized by Snell Acoustics provide a level of sonically accurate loudspeaker products that are truly unique and unrivaled in the loudspeaker industry today.
The driver compliment of the new Type CV loudspeaker reflects the same MTM (midrange-tweeter-midrange) configuration found in the more expensive Snell Type B and B minor design. This approach to driver configuration helps to create a " virtual image" whereby the midrange image coincides with the tweeter acoustical axis to produce extraordinarily smooth and coherent response, even well off-axis. The result is an extremely wide listening window with superior harmonic integrity.

TYPE C/V PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Frequency Response
30Hz-22kHz (±3dB)
Driver Complement
Two 8" woofers with injection-molded cones and surrounds; two 5" midranges with injection-molded cones and surrounds; one 1" pure titanium dome tweeter; one 1" five-layer laminated metal tweeter.

Finish
Oak, Black Painted Oak, and Walnut.

Hand Tuning
Our technicians rigorously match our systems to within ±0.5dB of the Master Reference.
Power Requirements
Suitable for use with amplifiers from 40 watts to 250 watts.
Sensitivity
90dB SPL @ 1 meter with 2.83Vrms

Impedance
Nominal 8 ohms Minimum 5 ohms

Dimensions (HxWxD)
46-7/8 x 10-5/8 x 18" (119 x 27 x 46cm)

Weight
214 lbs per pair (97kg)

These speakers took me from the lowliness of mid-fi into the spheres of high-end...
They are calibrated before they are shipped, and it shows. Right out of the box they sing... These speakers are extremely musical, with great tranparency - careful they will reveal any shortcomings in your system...

After owning them for over a year, I am still extremely happy with them: great soundstage, based on a solid, but not thumping bass, wonderful transparent, yet clean midrange and treble.

Nice features: biwireable, one of the tweeters can be turned off ( nice for very bright, or noisy recordings), crossover between midrange and tweeters is adjustable.

Easy to drive (90db@1m@1W)minimum impedance is 5 ohm.

They are not perfect (which speaker is anyhow?), but their imperfections are hardly noticable (slightly shy low bass, which comes out though, when played loud).

4 stars in world where cost is no object, definitely 5 for what they cost ($2600), totaling out to a 4.5 stars, but I have to give them 5, because these are the speakers that got me into high end audio...

A must listen for anyone in the $2500 to $4000 pricerange, and definitely, if you are using lower power tube gear.

Having gone thru a variety of speakers over the years, I can honestly say that for the money these speakers are truly fisrt rate. They reqiure very little break-in and are EXTREMELY revealing! Voices are natural, and highs shimmer instead of sounding compressed, and ohhh what beautiful bass. Best placement for me was 3.5ft from back wall to front panel. In fact, the farther into the room the better(within reason). And 8ft. distance apart at min.They are BIG floorstanders and need a large room. Bi-wirable w/ rear firing tweeter that may be switched off(mine are off). Have used the following amps with them: MacCormick DNA.5se, B&K AV 5000 seriesII,Sunfire Cinema Grand. Make sure to use the spikes which tighten the lower bass even more. The imaging is really incredible(use Diana Krall as a reference) and hear what I mean. Sound staging is huge with plenty of air around musicians and placement well defined. In a Surround environment......well almost makes you not want to have surround they're so filling...but they work great as well. Hats off to the people at Snell for getting speaker design right!