SVS Ultra 3.0 Speaker Bundle #2: Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers | Ultra Center Channel Speaker – Piano Gloss Black

This Bundle Includes:
(1) SVS Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers – Pair – Piano Gloss Black
(1) SVS Ultra Center Channel Speaker – Piano Gloss Black

SVS Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers – Pair – Piano Gloss Black

The SVS Ultra Tower is a flagship floorstanding speaker that rivals the finest loudspeakers in the world, delivering reference-quality sound for both music and home theater. It boasts custom drivers, a SoundMatch 3.5-way crossover, and optimized cabinet geometry, all meticulously engineered to create breathtaking audio experiences.

Every aspect of the SVS Ultra Tower speaker was carefully considered to achieve audio performance and build quality without any compromise. This flagship loudspeaker showcases numerous design innovations and employs world-class build materials, resulting in reference-quality sound and stunning dynamics that surpass speakers that are priced thousands of dollars more.

The Ultra Tower speakers provide a convincing and powerful audio experience, whether it’s the warmth of vinyl, the intricate details of a hi-res audio recording, or the aggressive, hard-hitting soundtrack of an action movie. With exceptional performance in both high and low frequencies, listening to them for the first time is like experiencing an epiphany that continues to reveal itself with every subsequent session.

These speakers are designed to create a perfectly tuned acoustic ecosystem. Each component, from the drivers to the crossover and cabinet, is meticulously engineered and rigorously tested to ensure they work in harmony, resulting in breathtaking sound quality.

Ultra Driver & Tweeter Design

The Ultra Tower speakers have a unique design that enhances the low-frequency output, starting with the proprietary SVS ForceFactor woofer array, featuring two 8-inch drivers horizontally opposed at the base of the speaker. The cabinet’s shape ensures that each woofer fires in a different direction, resulting in deep, effortless, and accurate bass that fills the entire listening area.

The dual 6.5-inch midrange drivers are made with composite glass-fiber cones that offer excellent stiffness-to-mass ratio for enhanced sensitivity and a neutral voicing that remains faithful to the source material. As 80% of the sound occurs in the midrange frequencies, the drivers reveal the essence of the Ultra Tower speaker’s timbre, conveying the nuance and impact of instruments, voices, and sound effects with pitch-perfect accuracy.

Aluminum dome tweeter elevate high-frequency performance, delivering a transparent and pinpoint-accurate sound. The tweeter is light, efficient, rigid, and resistant to distortion, even at high sound pressure levels. Its airy presentation of female vocals and effortlessly unveiled highs reveal as much or more than the finest loudspeakers in the world. The FEA-optimized diffuser ensures broad dispersion for an incredibly wide and convincing soundstage with perfect on- and off-axis frequency response, providing pristine clarity and imaging to everyone in the room.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

To match the performance of the premium drivers, the Ultra Tower speakers feature the intelligent SVS SoundMatch 3.5-way crossover, which spares no expense. Its tapered array is designed so that only the top midrange driver crosses over to the tweeter, while the bottom midrange is crossed over to the woofers, minimizing the potential for beaming. This creates an expansive, yet focused and precise soundstage with accurate frequency response and imaging, regardless of the listening position in the room.

The SoundMatch Crossover is precisely tuned to ensure pinpoint accuracy from sparkling highs to subterranean lows, while also maintaining pristine signal purity. This ensures that the speaker delivers accurate, high-quality sound that remains faithful to the source material.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

The Ultra Tower speaker’s cabinet is designed with a specific sonic purpose in mind, with every feature carefully considered. The tapered edges on the cabinet’s front baffle, known as chamfers, are designed to minimize edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging.

The sweeping side panels of the floorstanding loudspeaker are non-parallel, allowing each of the 8-inch woofers to fire in different directions, resulting in deep, effortless, and accurate bass that fills the room. Internally, each cabinet employs two separate sealed midrange enclosures to optimize performance and minimize interaction between drivers.

The positioning of the tweeter between the two mid-range drivers in separate enclosures and the unique 3.5-way crossover design make high frequency output highly resistant to ceiling and floor boundary reflections, enabling the Ultra Tower to project a pinpoint accurate portrayal of the near field response, even when a listener is sitting far away. Every detail of the cabinet design is intended to deliver the best possible sound quality.

Meticulous, Innovative Design Process

SVS employs a meticulous process in the creation of all their speakers, regardless of price or form factor, that blends precise scientific methods with a passionate commitment to achieving exceptional sound quality.

Starting with advanced computer-aided design (CAD) techniques, SVS creates theoretical models of drivers and cabinets as the initial stage in the design process. Prototypes are then constructed and subjected to careful testing and optimization in an anechoic environment to achieve an optimal frequency response. However, SVS doesn’t stop there. The speakers undergo exhaustive listening tests in rooms calibrated to resemble real-world environments, with actual music and cinematic content being used to gauge performance.

The result is a speaker that not only measures well, with a near-perfect real-world frequency response, but is also optimized to sound incredible on a human level, providing an exceptional listening experience in a real-world setting like your home.

SVS Ultra Center Channel Speaker – Piano Gloss Black

The SVS Ultra Center channel speaker is a reference-quality 3-way design that provides an expansive soundstage, powerful dynamics, and pristine clarity, making it the perfect addition to any home theater. With a focus on achieving the widest sweet spot possible and delivering crisp, clear vocals, this center channel speaker serves as a critical sonic bridge between the front left and right speakers in a surround sound setup. Despite its compact size, the Ultra Center delivers exceptional low frequency extension and reveals incredible detail and nuance in music and movie content, outperforming larger and more expensive center channel speakers.

The SVS Ultra Center speaker is an uncompromising addition to any home theater system. With a meticulously tuned SoundMatch three-way crossover, dual 6.5-inch glass fiber composite woofers, and a 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter and 4-inch midrange driver aligned vertically, every element has been crafted with care. From the acoustically enhanced cabinet geometry to the high-end components and build quality, the Ultra Center is a standout among center channel speakers.

Despite the fact that the center channel speaker is responsible for delivering the majority of dialogue, vocals, and music in a movie, it is often overlooked in a surround sound system. Many manufacturers compromise with a two-way design or a flimsy, thin center channel speaker, but not SVS. The SVS Ultra Center is optimized for horizontal placement and delivers a reference-quality sound, elevating even the most demanding movie and music content.

Ultra Driver & Tweeter Design

The SVS Ultra Center speaker boasts a 4-inch composite glass-fiber cone midrange driver that provides high sensitivity and maintains pistonic behavior even beyond its pass-band. Housed in a sub-enclosure, the midrange driver is vertically aligned with a 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter that has an FEA-optimized diffuser for broad dispersion and perfect frequency response on- and off-axis, resulting in a large “Sweet Spot” for a wide and convincing soundstage. The dual 6.5-inch woofers deliver exceptional bass output and power handling capabilities that are rarely found in a center channel speaker.

During playback of movies, TV shows, or music, all components of the Ultra Center speaker work together seamlessly to provide clear vocal clarity, dialogue intelligibility, and powerful dynamics while anchoring the front stage with a massive soundstage and seamless transitional effects. The Ultra Center speaker delivers an impressive audio experience whether conveying the nuanced dialogue of a conversation or the high-impact soundtrack of an action movie.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

A center channel speaker that truly stands out requires a three-way crossover design. The SVS Ultra Center speaker, in particular, boasts a unique SVS SoundMatch three-way crossover with precisely tuned crossover frequencies and slopes. This design results in a smooth off-axis response, excellent phase coherency, and a stable, robust soundstage. The speaker also features premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors, and other high-end components to ensure pristine signal transmission and complete neutrality.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Every feature on the Ultra Center channel speaker’s cabinet was designed with a sonic purpose in mind. The chamfered edges on the front baffle minimize edge diffraction, resulting in clear and precise soundstaging. The cabinet also features separate sealed enclosures for the mid-bass drivers and tweeters to optimize performance and minimize interaction between them. Even the grille design has been optimized using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to ensure maximum acoustic transparency.