Features
| Warranty length | 5 Years |
|---|---|
| Brand | SVS |
| Product Award | HiFi Choice Recommended, Home Cinema Choice Best Buy |
Tech Specs
- Rated bandwidth: 30-25k Hz (±3dB)
- Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
- Sensitivity: 87dB (2.83V @1m, 300-3kHz)
- Recommended amp power: 20-250 watts
- Single set of 5-way binding posts
- Dual 1.7” wide-flared rear-firing ports
- Cloth grille + pin/cup retention system
- 1” Alu Dome Tweeter, FEA-optimised diffuser
- 4.5” Mid PP cone, Cast ABS-fiberglass
- 2x 6.5” PP Cone long stroke motor/suspension
- 3.5-way crossover + premium-grade capacitors
- Elastomer 3mm stick-on bumper feet
- Spiked adjustable metal screw-in feet
- Dimensions (HWD): 36" x 8" x 11.1"
- Weight: 40.1 pounds
Product Description
SVS Prime Tower is a reference-level floorstanding speaker with pinpoint precision, excellent tonal balance, simple bass response and all the characteristics of top high-end floorstanders. It’s a true accomplishment for dual-channel audiophile or surround sound home theater systems, considering the benchmark in performance value.
FEA-Optimised Tweeter
With manufacturing and design derived from the acclaimed SVS Ultra Series speakers, the Prime Tower is an acoustic achievement that challenges the best speakers in the world. Prime Tower speakers was designed for acoustic excellence from the high-grade drivers and complex SoundMatch crossover to the ultra-thick baffle, internal bracing and FEA optimised tweeter diffuser.
The Prime Tower speaker’s 1" aluminum dome tweeter is light, efficient and sturdy for crystal clear playback at high volumes. The clarity affords a sense of superior transparency, while offering an ‘airy’ presentation and incredibly tangible highs so feminine vocals and dialogue always sound crisp and even.
Prime Driver Design
Carefully designed for sonic excellence, the 4.5" midrange driver is mounted in its own dedicated and entirely sealed compartment to ensure a smooth, precise and clear midrange free from coloration. The cone material is incredibly light and rigid and retains a flat frequency response with exceptional handling across the core mid-range frequencies.
Dual 6.5" woofers produce simply deep and articulate bass to set the mood and punctuate the low-end impact of instruments, basslines and movie sound effects. Each woofer has a separate internal compartment in the cabinet with its own custom port tuning frequency. The result is deep, powerful and accurate bass you hear and more crucially, feel.
SoundMatch Crossover
The innovative no-compromise SVS SoundMatch features 3.5-way crossover and tapered array designed so each woofer has its own discrete crossover to prevent beaming and create an expansive yet focused and accurate soundstage with precise frequency response at all listening positions in the room. The SoundMatch Crossover tuning process ensures pinpoint accuracy from lucid highs to palpable lows with pristine musical purity.
Cabinet Design and Geometry
Tapered edges on the speaker’s front baffle reduce edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging. The cabinet’s presence is dominant in acoustics but not aesthetics and offers a contemporary industrial feel with audio enhancements like shorting rings and a tweeter diffuser. All these advancements are packed into a sleek but commanding cabinet available in stunning piano gloss black or premium black ash finishes.
Press Reviews
- "...the longer I listen to the Prime Tower, the more I appreciate its ability to walk the line between resolving detail and embracing the bigger picture. It’s a sound blueprint for long-term satisfaction.” (HiFi Choice Magazine, November 2017)
- “But there's more than just an iron grip and lack of bass boominess (especially if you do take time to EQ the system via the onboard DSP on board) – this is a whole package of loveliness. The sequence when our protagonist discovers his powers is even more potent and large in dynamics, and the SVS system’s midband and effortless, soaring, clean and pure highs were able to entertain as well as unnerve…The underlying story here is linearity." (Home Cinema Choice Magazine)
- "Thoroughly over-engineered, the drivers’ technologies and enclosures’ constructional parameters are all about creating an array that will not break up or sound stressed while keeping up with a 3,500W peak subwoofer…If you're looking for a system and have a big budget because you want a sound with real meat, power and clarity, then these simply have to be on your list.” (Home Cinema Choice Magazine)
- "If you can fit them in your listening room, these are speakers that warrant attention. The SVS is capable of giving scale andcohesion to performances that other speakers can struggle with and theircontrol and integration is extremely impressive…the way this gentle giant goesabout making music is something that they will find extremely compelling.” (HiFi Choice Magazine, August 2013)
