SVS Ultra Tower Speakers (Pair)

Dramatic Styling, Extreme Performance and Uncompromised Fidelity Define the SVS Flagship Loudspeaker SVS Ultra Tower Speakers

SVS Ultra Tower - The Flagship
Standing 45" tall with a unique upswept trapezoidal shape and striking edge treatments, the Ultra Tower creates a dramatic visual statement. Premium-grade finish in piano gloss black complements this contemporary design.

But at SVS beauty is never just skin-deep. The Ultra Tower delivers a deep and detailed soundstage with incredible resolution, absolute transparency, and amazingly rich and articulated bass – outperforming other brands costing two and three times their price.


Dramatic Styling Yields Sonic Benefits
The stunning Ultra Tower cabinet design yields numerous sonic benefits. The non-parallel cabinet panels reduce standing waves within the cabinet, effectively eliminating frequency response coloration. The wedge-shaped front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response. Even the grille design is FEA-optimized to maximize acoustic transparency.

Each cabinet also employs two separate sealed midrange enclosures to optimize performance and minimize negative interaction between drivers.


UltraSonic Drivers - Extreme Performance and Uncompromised Fidelity
The SVS UltraSonic drivers utilize the finest materials and design features to ensure the highest sound quality and performance. The Ultra Tower driver array features a 1” aluminum dome tweeter, dual 6.5” midrange drivers, and dual 8" horizontally opposed woofers.

The 1” aluminum dome tweeter utilizes an FEA-optimized diffuser which delivers a very open ‘airy’ presentation and extremely unveiled highs.

The 6.5" midrange driver delivers a sound stage so pure and free of artifacts that you'll swear the performers are in the room:

• A composite glass-fiber cone with excellent stiffness/mass ratio which improves sensitivity and maintains pistonic behavior well beyond the pass-band of the driver.
• A vented voice coil former to minimize air compression artifacts at high drive levels.
• An aluminum shorting ring to reduce gap inductance, lower distortion, and improve high frequency response.
• A cast aluminum basket to ensure precise alignment of critical components and enhance heat-sinking capacity.

The 8" woofers deliver that famous SVS bass - deep, tight, clean, linear and powerful:

• A long-stroke motor and suspension for low distortion and high output capability.
• A heavy duty voice for enhanced power handling and thermal management.
• A vented voice coil former to minimize air compression artifacts at high drive levels.
• An aluminum shorting ring to reduce gap inductance, lower distortion, and improve high frequency response.

ForceFactor Woofer Array
The unique ForceFactor horizontally-opposed dual woofer configuration results in mechanical force cancellation for reduced distortion and cleaner, tighter bass response.

The ForceFactor array also eliminates cabinet vibration, which could otherwise modulate the mid/high frequencies – so the soundstage is always stable and crystal clear.

Also, since the four woofers all fire in different directions, the acoustical loading and modal density in the listening space is greatly enhanced. No matter where you sit, the bass response will be effortless, smooth and accurate, and free of room-based anomalies.


SoundMatch Crossover Network - Intelligently Designed for Your Listening Room
The unique SoundMatch 3.5-way crossover features a tapered array which supplies each midrange driver with an optimized frequency band. Only the top midrange crosses over to the tweeter, while the bottom midrange is tapered to minimize the potential for off-axis lobing at the critical midrange-to-tweeter crossover frequency. The result is a smoother in-room frequency response and enhanced radiation of total sound power, along with a more generous sweet spot in the vertical axis for a convincing and stable sound stage.

Naturally the SoundMatch crossover network also features premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards to ensure pure signal transmission.

Loudspeaker Physical Description:

• Floor Standing Tower Loudspeaker
• Dimensions: 45" (H) X 13.8" (W) X 16.25" (D).
• Weight: 75.4 pounds.
• Piano gloss black finish.
• Dual gold-plated 5-way binding posts.
• 3.5" wide-flared rear-firing port.
• Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system.

Driver Array and Technical Highlights:

• 1" tweeter:
FEA-optimized diffuser for airy and unveiled presentation.
• Aluminum dome delivers exceptional transient response and exceptional stiffness/mass ratio.
• 6.5" midrange driver:
• Composite glass-fiber cone with excellent stiffness/mass ratio for high sensitivity and pistonic behavior beyond pass band.
• Aluminum shorting ring to reduce gap inductance, lower distortion, and enhance high frequency response.
• Cast aluminum basket to ensure precise alignment of critical components and additional heat-sinking capacity.
• Vented voice coil former to minimize air compression artifacts at high drive levels.
• 8" woofers:
• Aluminum shorting rings to reduce gap inductance and lower distortion.
• Long stroke motor and suspension for high output.
• Vented voice coil formers to minimize air compression artifacts at high drive levels.

ForceFactor Woofer Array:
Dual 8" side-firing horizontally opposed Ultrasonic woofers results in mechanical force cancellation, enhanced modal density and reduced distortion for a smooth, accurate bass at all listening locations.

SoundMatch Crossover Network:

• 3.5-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards.
• Unique tapered midrange array miniimizes off-axis lobing and enhances radiated sound power into listening space.
• Top midrange-to-tweeter crossover: 2 kHz.
• Bottom midrange taper frequency: 700 Hz.
• Dual midrange-to-woofer crossover: 160 Hz.

Cabinet Construction Technical Highlights:

• Separate sealed midrange enclosures minimize top-to-bottom wall dimensions and shift standing waves beyond the driver pass band, minimizing negative driver interaction and associated frequency response degradation.
• Non-parallel cabinet panels reduces axial standing waves within the cabinet, reducing frequency response coloration..
• Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles, wedge-shaped front baffle and flush-mounted drivers all contribute to reduced edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response.
• FEA-optimized bracing reduces cabinet resonances.

Frequency Response and Electro-Acoustic Data:

• Rated bandwidth: 28 Hz-32 kHz (+/-3 dB).
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms.
• Sensitivity: 88 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz).
• Recommended amplifier power: 20-300 watts.

Professional Reviews

“The level of detail and inflection captured and put forth by the Ultra Series speakers was incredible…Simply put, the whole experience was fantastic. What more can an enthusiast on a budget ask for? I couldn't think of anything…”
Home Theater Review.com, Review by Andrew Robinson, 3/4/2013. Read Review

"...blown away by the way they sounded -- rich, detailed, exceedingly clean, particularly through the midrange, and notably extended in the bass."
Global SoundStage, 10/2012 by Doug Schneider. Read Review

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