Chances are that when you think of Cerwin-Vega home audio speakers, the first thing that comes to mind are their popular ultra-efficient (and enormous) floor-standing and bookshelf speakers, perfectly-suited for filling up really large rooms with lots of sound. After all, Cerwin-Vega calls themselves "The LOUD Speaker Company". Well, you can have a small to medium size room and still experience Cerwin-Vega sound quality, and don't have to rob a bank to do it. The Cerwin-Vega CMX 5.1 home theater speaker system pictured to the right can be yours for less than five hundred bucks.

Each compact two-way CMX satellite speaker for the front left, front right, and two rear surround channels measures less than 7 inches high and weighs under 2 pounds and packs a ¾ inch high resolution soft dome tweeter for the treble and a 3 inch Accent Driver midrange. The CMX center channel speaker features that same ¾ inch tweeter and dual 3 inch midrange drivers.

The four satellite speakers and the center channel speaker are each rated 8 Ohms and are wall-mountable.

Last, but certainly not least, low frequency effects are handled by the CMX subwoofer which features an 8 inch down-firing Magnum driver powered by a 100 watt amplifier.