All SVS speakers, regardless of price or form factor, are crafted in the same painstaking fashion. Call it a marriage of exacting science and a passionate expression of technique and love of great sound.
Before a model is ever constructed, drivers and cabinets are theoretically designed using the most sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) processes in the world. Then prototypes are carefully measured and optimized in an anechoic environment for pitch-perfect frequency response. After the ideal theoretical frequency response is attained, exhaustive listening and measurement is done in listening rooms calibrated to closely resemble typical home-like room environments.
The result is a speaker that measures well with near-perfect real world frequency response, but also optimized to sound amazing on a human level through listening tests with real music and cinematic content, in a real world listening environment like yours.
Speaker Specs Dual Baffle Surround Loudspeaker Piano gloss black and real black oak veneer finish options Dual independent gold-plated 5-way binding posts Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system Aluminum wall mounting bracket with safety catch feature to help prevent inadvertent removal Elastomer stick-on bumper feet Cabinet Dimensions: 14” (H) x 12.3” (W) x 6.9” (D) Overall Dimensions: 14” (H) x 12.3” (W) x 7” (D) (with bracket) Shipped Dimensions: 19" (H) x 22" (W) x 17" (D) Driver Specs 1” Aluminum Dome Tweeter Vertically aligned tweeter and midrange improves horizontal axis polar response, with reduced lobing and comb filtering FEA-optimized diffuser for airy and unveiled presentation Aluminum dome delivers exceptional transient response and exceptional stiffness/mass ratio 5.5” Woofers Composite glass-fiber cone with excellent stiffness/mass ratio for high sensitivity and pistonic behavior beyond pass band. Aluminum shorting rings to reduce gap inductance and lower distortion Cast aluminum basket to ensure precise alignment of critical components and additional heat-sinking capacity. Vented voice coil formers to minimize air compression artifacts at high drive levels. Crossover & Cabinet Specs Crossover 2-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards Dual isolated crossover networks allows for bipole, dipole or unique Duet mode Crossover frequency and slopes optimized for excellent off-axis polar response, outstanding phase coherency, and total radiated sound power Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.0 kHz Cabinett 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.
