SVS Prime Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)

SVS Prime Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)

High-end in every way but price, the SVS Prime Bookshelf speakers deliver amazingly refined sound quality and stunning dynamics as fronts, surrounds, center channel or other loudspeakers in a 2-channel audiophile or home theater surround sound system.

The Prime Bookshelf speakers are sonic overachievers on all levels. Stunningly dynamic, pinpoint accurate and utterly transparent, they deftly serve as reference monitor loudspeakers in a two-channel system, or as high performance front, center, or side/rear surround speakers in a multi-channel home theater.

SVS Drivers Extreme Performance and Uncompromised Fidelity

Leveraging design and technology from the SVS Ultra family, the Prime Bookshelf Speakers feature high-quality drivers and crossover components simply not found anywhere else in this segment.

1” Aluminum Dome Tweeter

 The 1" aluminum dome tweeter, which is light, efficient, and rigid, provides high SPL (Sound Pressure Level) with minimal distortion and the sense of utter transparency. It deploys a Finite-Element-Analysis (FEA) optimized diffuser to ensure the tweeter only has the perfect on-axis and off-axis frequency response. That way, everyone in your listening room gets the best performance. Likewise, since SVS shares these design traits with both the Prime and Ultra speakers, both product lines can blend well with one another while offering that SVS hallmark 'airy' presentation and incredibly unveiled highs.

6.5” Woofer

 SVS built their groundbreaking new 6.5” bass woofer on an all-new cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket for precise component alignment and an inert frame without resonances or added harmonics. The Prime Bookshelf speaker’s 6.5-inch woofer is mounted in its own dedicated and completely sealed compartment to ensure smooth, precise and clear midrange and bass output that’s free from coloration. The cone material is extremely light and rigid and maintains a flat frequency response with excellent handling across the foundational mid-range frequencies. Low frequency extension is shockingly deep and effortless considering the cabinet size and the Prime Bookshelf speaker can hit reference volume with amazing clarity, no distortion and headroom to spare.

SoundMatch Crossover Intelligently Designed for Your Listening Room

 SVS's exclusive SoundMatch crossover sports premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors, and heavy-trace printed circuit boards. All of these high-quality components yield lower distortion, tighter tolerances, better heat dissipation, and all around better sound. The 2-way crossover is uniquely tuned so each driver can blend perfectly each other while offering the best on and off-axis response. Likewise, by virtue of using a dedicated midrange driver, vocals are preserved perfectly and presented naturally and clearly for all dialog in center channel soundtracks.

Specifications (Per Speaker)

• Dimensions (H x W x D): 13.2” x 8” x 9.4” 
• Weight: 15.5 lb.
• Tweeter: 1"
• Woofer: 6.5"
• Frequency response: 48 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
• Port: 1" wide-flared rear-firing
• Rated bandwidth: 48 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
• Sensitivity: 87 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz)
• Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.3 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)

 

Prime Bookshelves: World-Class Performance, Compact Form

Designed for two-channel purists and home theater fans alike, there simply isn’t a finer bookshelf monitor available in this segment. Equally adept in home theater or 2-channel settings, the Prime Bookshelf can form the foundation to an outstanding surround sound system. Their handsome styling and high-end finishes will make you proud to have them in your home, even before you’ve hit the power button. Matched with both the Prime and Ultra Center, Prime Satellites, and SVS subwoofers, your system’s clarity and dynamics will be stunning once called to perform.

 

 

 

Trickle Down Theory In Action – SVS Ultra Sound At A Prime Price

Borrowing heavily from the Ultra line, the Prime Bookshelf is packed with high-end technology and premium quality drivers, setting a new high-water mark for sound quality and performance value at this price point.

The crossover is the key to any great bookshelf, and our exclusive SoundMatch network is packed with quality components and exhaustive refinement for outstanding phase coherency and time domain behavior. The transition between tweeter and woofer is so smooth and seamless you’ll swear it sounds like a single full-range drive.

The front baffle of the cabinet is chamfered and the drivers are flush-mounted to reduce edge diffraction for a smooth high-end and outstanding imaging. Inside the FEA and CAD optimized cabinet is braced to eliminate resonances for an honest, neutral and uncolored midrange.

• Dimensions (H x W x D): 13.2” x 8” x 9.4” 
• Weight: 15.5 lb.
• Tweeter: 1"
• Woofer: 6.5"
• Frequency response: 48 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
• Port: 1" wide-flared rear-firing
• Rated bandwidth: 48 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
• Sensitivity: 87 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz)
• Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.3 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)