SVS Ultra 5.1 Speaker Bundle #3: Ultra Tower Floor Standing Speakers | Ultra Center Channel Speaker | Ultra Bookshelf Speakers | PB16-Ultra Subwoofer – 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 Bookshelf Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer
(1) SVS PB16-Ultra 1500 Watt 16″ Powered Subwoofer – Black Oak

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 Bookshelf Speakers – Pair – Black Oak Veneer

The Ultra Bookshelf speaker is a remarkable piece of engineering that boasts custom drivers, SoundMatch crossover, and optimized cabinet geometry, resulting in an exceptional listening experience. Its full-range sound is effortless, and its expansive soundstage provides pitch-perfect accuracy and precise imaging. Critics and music enthusiasts alike recognize its transparency and refined precision, while home theater enthusiasts appreciate its powerful dynamics and palpable bass output.

The SVS Ultra Bookshelf speaker is an incredibly well-balanced device that delivers acoustic power while reproducing even the finest details with exquisite refinement. Overall, it is a true reference quality speaker that is celebrated by all.

The SVS Ultra Bookshelf speakers have been designed with an uncompromising focus on achieving cost-no-object audio performance and build quality, resulting in a groundbreaking bookshelf loudspeaker. Each design element has been scrutinized and countless innovations have been implemented, along with world-class build materials, to deliver reference sound quality and stunning dynamics typically only found in the most expensive speakers worldwide.

These speakers can handle anything from the warm and inviting sound of vinyl to the demanding, multi-layered soundtrack of an action movie, providing a powerful and convincing audio experience that is among the best audio investments available at any price point. Every aspect of the Ultra Bookshelf speakers has been painstakingly engineered and tested, from the drivers and crossover to the build materials and cabinet design, to ensure reference sound quality is achieved. The result is an uncompromising approach to loudspeaker design that delivers exceptional audio performance.

Ultra Driver & Tweeter Design

With their composite glass-fiber cones, the 6.5-inch mid-bass drivers of the Ultra Bookshelf speaker are an impressive addition to any home audio system. The cones provide an excellent stiffness to mass ratio, resulting in enhanced sensitivity and voicing that is transparent and completely faithful to the source material. These capable drivers deliver an accurate tonal balance with effortless authority and dynamics, faithfully rendering the varied nuances of musical instruments and dialogue, as well as the sonic impact of sound effects and movie scores. The Ultra drivers’ pinpoint accuracy ensures precise imaging and a massive soundstage that elevates the listening experience to new heights.

The Ultra Bookshelf speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter enhances high frequency performance by offering pristine neutrality and revealing sound. The tweeter is light, efficient, rigid, and impervious to distortion even at high sound pressure levels. It provides an “airy” presentation of vocals and unveiled highs that compare with the best tower and bookshelf speakers 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, so that everyone in the room can experience the same stunning clarity. Overall, these features ensure the Ultra Bookshelf speaker delivers outstanding audio performance that is second to none.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

The SVS SoundMatch two-way crossover is an innovative design that spared no expense. Its unique topology creates a broad, yet focused and precise soundstage that offers accurate frequency response and imaging at all listening positions. The SoundMatch crossover has been precisely tuned to ensure balanced output across the entire frequency range, from sparkling highs to the crystal clear and commanding midrange, down to visceral and authoritative bass. This attention to detail ensures that every note and sound is reproduced faithfully and accurately, resulting in an unparalleled listening experience that is sure to impress even the most discerning audiophiles.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

The design of the Ultra Bookshelf speaker cabinet has been carefully considered with a focus on optimizing sound performance. The tapered edges on the cabinet’s front baffle, also known as chamfers, have been implemented to minimize edge diffraction and improve soundstaging clarity and precision. The interior of each cabinet is also divided into separate sub-enclosures for the mid-bass driver and tweeter, which helps to optimize performance and reduce interaction between the drive units. Every feature of the cabinet has been thoughtfully designed to contribute to the speaker’s overall exceptional sound quality, ensuring that the Ultra Bookshelf speaker delivers the highest level of audio performance possible.

SVS PB16-Ultra 1500 Watt 16″ Subwoofer – Black Oak

PB16-Ultra: The ultimate reference standard for bass, PB16-Ultra redefines what is possible from a ported cabinet subwoofer design with cost-no-object design and engineering.

The SVS PB16-Ultra 1500 Watt 16″ Subwoofer in a Black Oak finish is a premium-quality subwoofer designed to deliver unparalleled performance. The subwoofer features a long-stroke 16″ driver that offers exceptional accuracy and power, while the STA-1500D Sledge amplifier provides an impressive 1,500 watts of power (5,000 watts peak). The front-firing triple 3.5″ high-flow flared port and protective, non-resonant steel mesh grille ensure optimal performance and protection, respectively. The rigid and braced MDF cabinet guarantees an acoustically inert environment, while the variable 20 Hz, 16 Hz, and sealed tuning offers remarkable versatility. With a frequency response range of 12-200 Hz +/- 3 dB (standard mode), 11-200 Hz +/- 3 dB (extended mode), and 14-200 Hz +/- 3 dB (sealed mode), the subwoofer delivers exceptional detail and clarity. Measuring 25″ H X 21.7″ W X 30.9″ D and weighing in at 174.5 lb., this subwoofer is a perfect addition to any audiophile’s collection.

One Subwoofer to Rule Them All. Introducing the PB16-Ultra.

The development of the PB16-Ultra subwoofer was driven by an unwavering devotion to achieving awe-inspiring bass performance and engineering excellence. SVS employed revolutionary technology, meticulous design, and extensive testing both in the lab and in real-world environments to achieve unparalleled low frequency extension and output capabilities, all while maintaining remarkable detail and clarity. As the embodiment of all SVS design innovations, the PB16-Ultra offers a bass experience that is unmatched by anything else. Simply put, there is no comparison.

Stunningly Powerful, New Sledge Amplifier with Fully Discrete MOSFET Output and 1,500 Watts Continuous, 5,000+ Watts Peak Power.

Conservatively rated at 1,500 watts continuous, 5,000+ watts peak power, the PB16-Ultra Sledge STA-1500D amplifier’s 64 Amp 200-Volt MOSFETs are the sonic muscle behind arguably the most powerful and highest fidelity subwoofer amplifier ever developed. Discrete MOSFET output unbridles the nearly limitless power in the Sledge amplifier and pushes the 16-inch driver to extreme levels of performance. They also represent an upgrade over the less robust integrated circuit output stages found in nearly all other Class D subwoofer amplifiers.

Effortless power must be harnessed to ensure refined behavior and pristine output at the most demanding drive levels. To achieve this, the PB16-Ultra subwoofer uses the audio industry’s most advanced 50 MHz Analog Devices Audio DSP with 56bit filtering to handle the nearly limitless power, only unleashing the perfect amount of low frequency energy at just the right time.

Masterful Engineering. 3 Game-Changing Subwoofer Innovations.

One of these groundbreaking innovations would’ve been enough to make the PB16-Ultra an engineering tour-de-force, but the combination of 3 subwoofer firsts propels the SVS PB16-Ultra into the pantheon of all-time great audio products.

Massive New 16-inch SVS Ultra Driver with Unprecedented 8-inch Edge Wound Voice Coil.

In designing the largest and most formidable driver ever used in an SVS subwoofer, it was crucial to maintain the same supreme standards of control and accuracy as every other subwoofer manufactured by SVS. To handle the crushing force of a 16-inch driver, the PB16-Ultra subwoofer features an 8-inch edge wound voice coil, the largest ever deployed in a consumer subwoofer. This innovation ensures ultra-low distortion, efficient heat dissipation, exceptional linearity, and nearly zero power compression. Although larger drivers are generally more difficult to control, the unprecedented voice coil design ensures accuracy in frequency response and speed in transients, without ever sounding distorted.

Driving the driver are four massive, dedicated toroidal ferrite magnets that unleash a staggering 78mm peak-to-peak excursion and the highest levels of motor force and palpable SPLs. The 16-inch Ultra driver cone is both light and rigid, consisting of a premium fiberglass resin composite with an optimal stiffness-to-mass ratio to maximize the movement of air and sonic energy without ever distorting or losing control.

Acoustically Inert, Rigidly Braced Cabinet

To generate such immense levels of sonic energy, a subwoofer must possess a robust cabinet design. In the case of the PB16-Ultra, a double-thick MDF front baffle and rigid internal bracing were utilized to accommodate the massive drive unit and create an acoustically neutral environment. The extensively reinforced internal construction guarantees that the cabinet remains entirely free of coloration or resonance, even when reproducing the deepest low frequencies at reference sound pressure levels.

Innovative New Smartphone App for Subwoofer DSP and Control.

The innovative PB16-Ultra smartphone app is compatible with Apple® and Android® platforms and unleashes the full depth, force, and nuance of the world’s finest subwoofer. This groundbreaking SVS subwoofer app controls all DSP functions and conveniently stores custom presets, making it the easiest way ever to fine-tune bass surpassing 16Hz at reference volumes from the comfort of your favorite seat.

For added convenience, 2-way feedback shows updates in real-time on both the app and subwoofer interface, and Bluetooth connectivity allows adjustments to be made even when the subwoofer is not in sight. Control is also available via IR remote and an intuitive front panel display.

Meticulous, Innovative Design Process

At SVS, the same level of meticulous attention is devoted to crafting every speaker, regardless of its price or form factor. This process is a perfect union of exacting science and a passionate expression of technique and love of great sound.

Before any model is constructed, our acoustic engineers use sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) processes to theoretically design the drivers and cabinets. Afterward, prototypes are measured and optimized in an anechoic environment to achieve pitch-perfect frequency response. Once the ideal theoretical frequency response is achieved, exhaustive listening and measurement tests are conducted in calibrated listening rooms that closely resemble typical home environments.

The result of this process is a speaker that measures well with near-perfect frequency response in real-world conditions, but is also optimized to sound exceptional on a human level through listening tests with real music and cinematic content. This approach ensures that the SVS speakers deliver a truly remarkable and unparalleled listening experience that is sure to impress even the most discerning audiophiles, in any real-world listening environment like your home.