SVS SOUND PRIME TOWER

The Prime Tower speakers set the bar for sound quality and high-end appeal among tower speakers anywhere near the price. The reference-grade SVS floorstanding speaker is amazingly transparent, with a broad, stable soundstage and sharp imaging of voices and instruments, all punctuated by deep yet accurate low frequency extension.

Challenge the SVS Prime Tower Speakers with any dynamically charged music or movie soundtrack and it reveals new layers of sound and detail you never knew existed. With engineering and design cues taken from the acclaimed SVS Ultra Series speakers, the Prime Tower is a sonic achievement that stands up to the best speakers in the world.

Every aspect of the Prime Tower speakers was designed for sonic excellence. From the premium grade drivers and sophisticated SoundMatch crossover to the extra-thick baffle, internal bracing, and FEA optimized tweeter diffuser, the Prime Tower speaker’s design and engineering credentials place it among the best $1,000 tower speakers available.

Prime Driver & Tweeter Design

Thoughtfully designed for acoustic excellence, the 4.5-inch midrange driver is mounted in its own dedicated and completely sealed compartment to ensure a smooth, precise and clear midrange 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.

Dual 6.5-inch woofers deliver effortlessly deep and articulate bass to set the mood and punctuate the low-end impact of instruments, bass-lines and movie sound effects. Each woofer has a separate internal compartment in the cabinet with its own custom port tuning frequency. The result is deep, powerful and accurate bass you hear and more importantly, feel.

The Prime Tower speaker’s 1-inch aluminium dome tweeter is light, efficient, and rigid, and plays crystal clear at high volumes. The clarity offers a sense of utter transparency, while offering an ‘airy’ presentation and incredibly unveiled highs so female vocals and dialogue always sound crisp and smooth.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

Since premium drivers require an equally capable crossover, no expense was spared with the innovative SVS SoundMatch 3.5-way crossover. Its tapered array is designed so each woofer has its own discrete crossover to minimise 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 from sparkling highs down to palpable lows, while maintaining pristine signal purity.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Tapered edges on the Prime Tower speaker’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimise edge diffraction for clear and precise sound-staging. The cabinet’s presence is substantial but it does not take over a room visually and offers a modern industrial feel with acoustic enhancements like shorting rings and a tweeter diffuser. All of these advancements are packed into a sleek but commanding floor standing speaker cabinet available in stunning piano gloss black or premium black ash finish.

SPECIFICATIONS

Frequency Response / Acoustic Data

• Rated bandwidth: 30 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms.
• Sensitivity: 87 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz)
• Recommended amplifier power: 20-250 watts.

Speaker Specs

• Floor Standing Tower Loudspeaker
• Black ash and piano gloss black finish options
• Single set of 5-way binding posts
• Dual 1.7” wide-flared rear-firing ports
• Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system
• Elastomer stick-on bumper feet (adds 3mm to height)
• Spiked metal screw-in feet included - adjustable for level
• Cabinet Dimensions: 36" (H) X 8" (W) X 11.1" (D)
• Overall Dimensions: 36.6" (H) X 8" (W) X 11.6" (D) (includes grille and feet)
• Shipped Dimensions: 41.3" (H) X 14.1" (W) X 17.3" (D)
• Weight: 40.1 pounds
• Shipped Weight: 46.3 pounds

Driver Specs

1” Aluminum Dome Tweeter:

• FEA-optimized diffuser for airy and unveiled presentation
• Aluminum dome for exceptional transient response

4.5” Midrange Driver:

• Polypropylene cone for excellent stiffness/mass ratio and pistonic behaviour
• 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 minimises air compression artefacts

Dual 6.5” Woofers

• Long stroke motor and suspension for high output
• Polypropylene cone for excellent stiffness/mass ratio and pistonic behaviour
• 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 minimises air compression artefacts

Crossover

• 3.5-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards.
• Tapered woofer array optimises the transition to the midrange driver and reduces vertical axis lobing
• Midrange-to-tweeter crossover: 2.1 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)
• Top woofer (Combined Woofer) to midrange crossover frequency: 350 Hz (12 dB/octave slopes).
• Bottom woofer low pass frequency: 165 Hz (customized filter Q and slope)

Cabinet

• Separate sealed midrange enclosure shifts standing waves beyond the driver pass band, improving sound quality
• Separate woofer enclosures with optimized port tuning frequencies for smooth and accurate bass response
• Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles minimise diffraction
• Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response
• FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances