SVS Prime Bookshelf Speakers - Black Ash

SVS Prime Bookshelf Speakers - Black Ash

 

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 theatre.

 

Prime Driver & Tweeter Design
Thoughtfully designed for acoustic excellence, 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.

 

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design
Since premium drivers require an equally capable crossover, no expense was spared with the innovative SVS SoundMatch 2-way crossover. Its tapered array is designed to minimize the potential for beaming. This creates an expansive, yet focused and precise soundstage, with accurate frequency response at all listening positions in the room. The precise tuning of the SoundMatch Crossover also ensures pinpoint accuracy of highs, mids, and lows, while maintaining pristine signal purity.

 

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry
Tapered edges on the Prime Bookshelf speaker’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimise edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging. The cabinet’s presence offers a modern industrial feel with acoustic enhancements like shorting rings and a tweeter diffuser which add performance-driven style. All advancements are packed into a compact but attractive cabinet, that’s easily mountable anywhere, and available in stunning piano gloss black or premium black ash finish.

 

Specs and Features
Frequency Response / Acoustic Data:
Rated bandwidth: 48 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
Nominal impedance: 8 ohms.
Sensitivity: 87 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz)
Recommended amplifier power: 20-150 watts.

Speaker Specs:
Bookshelf Loudspeaker
Black ash and piano gloss black finish options
5-way binding posts
1.7” wide-flared rear-firing port
Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system
Elastomer stick-on bumper feet (adds 3mm to height)
Cabinet Dimensions: 13.2" (H) X 8" (W) X 9.7" (D)
Overall Dimensions: 13.3" (H) X 8" (W) X 10.3" (D) (includes grille and bumper feet)
Shipped Dimensions-2 Pack: 17.6" (H) X 22.4" (W) X 14.4” (D)
Weight: 15.5 pounds
Shipped Weight-2 Pack: 34.7 pounds
Driver Specs:
1” Aluminum Dome Tweeter:
FEA-optimized diffuser for airy and unveiled presentation
Aluminum dome for exceptional transient response
6.5” Woofers:
Long stroke motor and suspension for high output
Polypropylene cone for excellent stiffness/mass ratio and pistonic behavior
Aluminum shorting ring to reduce gap inductance, lower distortion, and enhance high frequency response
Cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket ensures precision component alignment and excellent thermal transfer
Vented voice coil former minimizes air compression artifacts
Crossover & Cabinet Specs:
Crossover:
2-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards
Crossover network delivers outstanding phase coherency and time domain behavior
Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.3 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)
Cabinet:
Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles minimize diffraction
FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances
Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response

Recommended Power 20-150 watts
Impedance 8 Ω
Sensitivity 87.00 dB
Weight 7.03kg