SVS Ultra Tower Floorstanding Speakers Piano Gloss Black

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We have a 45 day unconditional satisfaction guarantee and a 5 year warranty on all products. If there were even the slightest issue with any product, or component of a product, we would replace it immediately and without question.” Because you want the best pair of floorstanding speakers currently available. Because you demand energy and excitement from your music, and thunderous power from your movies. Because you appreciate speakers that are well made, solid, and rewarding. The SVS Prime Pinnacles are an example of superb engineering and dedication to excellent sound, and we think they are as close to essential as a pair of loudspeakers get. Again, we can’t imagine where SVS actually go from here. Or to put it another way: if there is another pinnacle to reach, we will be amazed.' Cast aluminum basket to ensure precise alignment of critical components and additional heat-sinking capacity way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards.

The Ai81 speakers utilize a 150-watt class D amplifier with high-quality neodymium tweeters and dual 6.5" woven glass fiber drivers, which makes for balanced, undistorted midrange sound. Additionally the MDF wood cabinets feature omnidirectional bass ports, making for a more fully-developed sound. This thoughtful engineering results in rich audio that promises to do your favorite content justice -- which can even be personalized with the adjustable EQ option. Elevating high frequency performance, the Ultra Tower speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter is stunningly transparent and pinpoint accurate. Light, efficient, rigid and impervious to distortion, even at high sound pressure levels, the tweeter’s 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 so everyone in your room experiences the same pristine clarity and imaging. Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design SVS stands behind the Ultra Tower with a five-year warranty against defects in parts and workmanship, as well as a 45-day in-home trial period. Let’s start with the woofers. You get three of the damn things, taking up most of the front of the speaker, each one measuring 6.5”. This is not, as we shall see, a speaker that has any trouble with the bass. Above the three woofers is a single 1” tweeter, surrounded by the distinctive SVS plate with the screws forming across. Above it, there’s a 5.25” mid-range driver to fill in the blanks. Cables: Audio Art SE and Classic cable looms, JPS Labs Ultraconductor 2 speaker cables, Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Interconnects/Extreme 2 speaker cables, Signal Cable Silver Reference interconnects and speaker cables, digital optical and coax cable.Straight out of their boxes, the Ultra Towers sounded full, smooth, and robust -- in a word, superb. I then gave them a few days of break-in (facing each other, wired out of phase, and reproducing FM interstation noise), but noticed little change other than, perhaps, a slightly more open top end. With its Ultra series subwoofers garnering nearly-universal praise from critics, it seems like a particularly good time for SVS to re-enter the speaker market with a product that shares the same name. Indeed, the Ultra series is a complete departure from anything SVS has produced in the past – you can tell this just by looking at the speakers – but we wanted to know more, so we spoke to Mark Mason, Director of Product Management at SVS about what’s so “Ultra” about these new products.

Interconnects -- Linn (CD player), Straight Wire (DAC to preamp), Dayton Audio (USB and preamp to amp) True, SVS did offer speakers in the past, but even though they were pretty good, the company always kept its attention on frequencies below 80 Hz. Now with the addition of Mark Mason — an ex-PSB engineer who does his testing in the anechoic chamber at Canada’s National Research Council in Ottawa — SVS is getting serious about full-range sound. In 2005 the company made its first foray into the surround-sound speaker market with the S series. In 2008 came the audiophile M series. In 2011 SVS decided to revamp their entire product line, luring Mark Mason, previous design team manager at PSB, to join them as new product management director. Mr. Mason brought with him extensive expertise, having created BASH amplifier technology during his stint at Blade Technologies in the early 90s, worked with the rigors of pro-audio speakers and subs with Adamson System Engineering as well a 12-year tour of duty designing for PSB. It was a potentially perfect mesh of team and evolutionary direction. SVS handed the talented designer a major challenge, a new line of loudspeakers targeted at specific next-tier price points with a blank slate. Once the acoustic design was set, team SVS swung into collaborative action. The result? The Ultra series. Reviewed here is the flagship Ultra Tower.What we did like about the SVS Ultra Towers, and what we thought the speakers also did really well, with the sense of space and imaging they delivered. This is due to, we are convinced, the toe-out design to angle the woofers, but even if that hadn’t been the case, we’ve no doubt that they’d do a very good job convincing us of the place of the individual elements of the mix. And if you can forgive the slight misstep with the highs, which will probably end up getting fixed the next time SVS release a new iteration of these, you have to applaud their overall sound quality. In terms of floorstanding speakers, they deliver audio that in our opinion is beaten by perhaps only one or two other models in the same price range. It’s a very good look. By the way, SVS has an excellent speaker positioning guide - far more intuitive than anything we could put together here. You should make full use of that if you buy. Volume: A speaker's decibels tell you how loud your speaker can get. The higher the decibels, the louder your speaker's volume output. Two years ago, SVS changed ownership, and you could say it’s simultaneously a remarkably unchanged yet very different firm. It’s unchanged in that many old hands are still with the company, and the concentration on high-performance home theater products remains. But it’s different in two major ways: It’s now making products in China, and it has expanded beyond subwoofers with a full line of speakers. forget about the looks of the speakers i wanna know who has the best high end sound quality overall!! Elevating high frequency performance, the Ultra Tower speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter is stunningly transparent and pinpoint accurate. Light, efficient, rigid and impervious to distortion, even at high sound pressure levels, the tweeter’s 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 so everyone in your room experiences the same pristine clarity and imaging.