SVS Ultra 5.0 Speaker Bundle #3: Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers | Ultra Center Channel Speaker | Ultra Surround Bipole/Dipole Speakers – Black Oak Veneer

This Bundle Includes:
(1) SVS Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer
(1) SVS Ultra Center Channel Speaker – Black Oak Veneer
(1) SVS Ultra Surround Bipole/Dipole Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer

SVS Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer

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 – Black Oak Veneer

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.

SVS Ultra Surround Bipole/Dipole Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer

The Ultra Surround speaker brings the excitement of surround sound to your home with exceptional clarity and impactful dynamics. Its sleek design makes it effortless to mount and features dual isolated SoundMatch crossovers, which allow it to function as either a bipole or dipole speaker.

SVS has masterfully combined innovative engineering and intelligent design to create the Ultra Surround home theater speakers. Expertly acoustically tuned to integrate flawlessly with all models in the SVS Ultra and Prime series speaker lines, the Ultra Surround delivers an immersive audio experience that transports you directly into the heart of the onscreen action. With a vast soundstage and the ability to render even the smallest details with precision and spatial imaging, this speaker is sure to elevate your home theater experience to new heights.

The SVS Ultra Surround speaker is designed with dual isolated SoundMatch two-way crossovers for each tweeter and woofer, making it capable of operating in bipole, dipole, or SVS Duet Mode. The unique Duet Mode allows for the creation of two separate speakers in a single cabinet, allowing for true 7 channel surround sound with only 5 full-range speakers.

To achieve cost-no-object audio performance and build quality, every design element of the SVS Ultra Surround speaker was carefully scrutinized. The result is a groundbreaking home theater surround sound speaker that delivers reference sound quality and stunning dynamics, typically reserved for the world’s most expensive speakers. With countless design innovations and world-class build materials, the Ultra Surround speaker is capable of delivering powerful and convincing audio experiences, whether playing the aggressive, multi-layered soundtrack of an action movie or the understated effect of rain falling all around the listener.

From the drivers to the crossover and cabinet, each component of the Ultra Surround speaker is meticulously engineered and tested to achieve breathtaking realism, ensuring that you can enjoy an unparalleled audio experience in your home theater.

Ultra Driver & Tweeter Design

The SVS Ultra Surround speaker boasts dual 5.5-inch mid-bass drivers with glass-fiber cones that offer excellent stiffness to mass ratio, resulting in enhanced sensitivity and transparent voicing that remains true to the source material. These drivers are capable of delivering precise imaging and a massive soundstage, whether they’re conveying subtle surround effects or head-spinning sonic impact, such as explosions happening behind you.

The Ultra Surround speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter is equally impressive, with pristinely neutral and revealing high-frequency performance. The tweeter is light, efficient, rigid, and impervious to distortion, even at high sound pressure levels, resulting in airy and unveiled highs that rival the best home theater surround sound speakers in the world. The tweeter diffuser is optimized with FEA to provide broad dispersion, ensuring a wide and convincing soundstage with perfect on- and off-axis frequency response. This creates the largest possible “Sweet Spot” for surround effects, allowing everyone to be equally immersed in the onscreen action.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

The SVS SoundMatch two-way crossover is an innovative feature that was designed with no expense spared. Its unique topology delivers a broad yet focused soundstage with accurate frequency response and imaging at all listening positions. You can clearly sense the directionality of sound coming from different places around you. Additionally, the crossover enables the SVS’s innovative Duet Mode, allowing you to effortlessly switch from 5.1 to 7.1 or 7.1 to 9.1 without the need for additional surround sound speakers. The precise tuning of the SoundMatch Crossover ensures balanced output throughout the frequency spectrum.

The Ultra Surround speaker also offers maximum placement flexibility. It comes standard with a wall-mounting bracket, or you can easily place it on a speaker stand. This allows you to customize your home theater setup to fit your unique space and preferences.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

The cabinet of the Ultra Surround speaker was designed with sonic performance as the top priority. The cabinet’s front baffle features tapered edges, known as chamfers, which minimize edge diffraction and result in clear and precise soundstaging. The internal structure of each cabinet features separate sealed enclosures for both mid-bass drivers and tweeters, which optimize performance and minimize interaction between the drivers. Even the grille design was optimized with FEA to maximize acoustic transparency, ensuring that nothing interferes with the speaker’s sound quality.

Meticulous, Innovative Design Process

All SVS speakers, regardless of price or form factor, are crafted with a meticulous attention to detail that combines the precision of scientific design with a passionate expression of technique and a love for great sound.

Before a new model is ever constructed, its drivers and cabinets are designed using the most advanced computer-aided design (CAD) processes available. Prototypes are then painstakingly measured and optimized in an anechoic environment to ensure pitch-perfect frequency response. Once the ideal theoretical frequency response is achieved, extensive listening and measurement tests are conducted in listening rooms calibrated to closely resemble typical home environments.

The result is a surround sound speaker that delivers near-perfect real-world frequency response while also being optimized to sound amazing on a human level. This is achieved through extensive listening tests with real music and cinematic content, in real-world listening environments just like yours.