Ultra Surround Speaker
Ultra Surround Speaker
Ultra Surround
Product Overview
Innovative engineering and intelligent design come together in the SVS Ultra Surround home theater speakers. Acoustically voiced to blend seamlessly with all models in the SVS Ultra and Prime series speaker lines, the Ultra Surround speaker deeply immerses you in the onscreen action by conveying a massive soundstage and rendering the smallest details with pinpoint clarity and spatial imaging.
Designed with dual isolated SoundMatch two-way crossovers for each tweeter and woofer, the SVS Ultra Surround can operate in either bipole, dipole, or in the unique SVS Duet Mode, which creates two separate speakers in a single cabinet. In Duet mode, each set of drivers in the Ultra Surround speaker receives a discrete signal, so your system can deliver true 7 channel surround sound using only 5 full-range speakers.
Quick Specs
- Tweeter | Dual 1"
- Midrange | N/A
- Woofer | Dual 5.5"
- Freq. Response | 58 Hz-32 kHz (±3 dB)
- Dimension | 14” (H) 12.3” (W) 7” (D)
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User Reviews
Alfonso I. Reviews the Ultra Surround
"These bad boys sound amazing!!! Very crisp clear! And a very nice midbass also."- Alfonso I.
Press Reviews
The Ultra Speakers receive Sound & Vision’s 2013 Top Pick of the Year Award.
"Web-direct speaker-maker SVS, long known for outstanding subwoofers, knocked it out of the park on sound and build quality with the high-value, full-range ...
About.com names SVS Ultra Speakers as the Best Home Theater Speakers of 2013
“… impeccably engineered, with the neutral, natural sound that serious speaker guys love. It does the delicacy/spaciousness/detail thing beautifully, and al...
Home Theater Forum - Sam Chandler Reviews the Ultra 5.0 system
"These speakers, particularly the Tower, can do anything... performed flawlessly."
Widescreen Review Magazine - Gary Reber Reviews the SVS Ultra Series Loudspeakers
"… an exceptional multichannel loudspeaker system that is true to SVS’ tradition of offering higher performance for the money through R&D and design…the...
Marshall Guthrie - Audioholics, Reviews the Ultra Speakers
"...these are beautiful, capable speakers that are also a terrific value....remarkable speakers at a head turning price…their performance stands toe to toe ...
AV Nirvana Reviews the Ultra Center Loudspeaker
"Off-axis performance was excellent with highly intelligible vocals. Issued an expansiveness of sound that was breathtaking. They do everything exceptionally...
AV Nirvana Reviews the Ultra Surround Loudspeaker
"Versatility, easy-to-use bracket system, and great sound quality are delivered in a space-friendly design. The Ultra Surrounds produce an intricate side and...
Frequency Response / Acoustic Data:
- Rated bandwidth: 58 Hz-32 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:
- 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)
- Weight: 18 pounds
- Shipped Weight: 40 pounds
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
Cabinet:
- 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
Every design element of the SVS Ultra Surround speakers was scrutinized to achieve cost-no-object audio performance and build quality, creating a groundbreaking home theater surround sound speaker. Countless design innovations and world-class build materials result in reference sound quality and stunning dynamics normally reserved to for the world’s most expensive speakers.
Whether playing the aggressive, multi-layered soundtrack of an action movie or the understated effect of rain falling all around the listener, the Ultra Surround speaker delivers a powerful and convincing audio experience. From the drivers to the crossover and cabinet, each component is painstakingly engineered and tested to achieve breathtaking realism.
Ultra Driver & Tweeter Design
Room-filling low frequency and midrange playback is handled by dual 5.5-inch mid-bass drivers that feature glass-fiber cones with excellent stiffness to mass ratio for enhanced sensitivity and voicing that’s transparent and completely faithful to the source material. Whether conveying the nuance of subtle surround effects like a car driving by or a door closing, or the head-spinning sonic impact of an explosion happening behind you, the Ultra Surround drivers deliver pinpoint accuracy with precise imaging and a massive soundstage.
Elevating high frequency performance, the Ultra Surround speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter is pristinely neutral and revealing. Light, efficient, rigid and impervious to distortion even at high sound pressure levels, the tweeter’s airy, unveiled highs compare with the best home theater surround sound speakers in the world. The FEA-optimized tweeter diffuser ensures broad dispersion for a wide and convincing soundstage and perfect on- and off-axis frequency response. This means the largest possible “Sweet Spot” for surround effects so everyone can be equally immersed with what’s happening onscreen.
Innovative Two-Way SoundMatch Crossover
No expense was spared with the innovative SVS SoundMatch two-way crossover. The unique topology reveals a broad, yet focused soundstage, with accurate frequency response and imaging at all listening positions. You clearly sense the directionality of sound coming from different places all around you. The crossover also enables SVS’s innovative Duet Mode, so you can go from 5.1 to 7.1 or 7.1 to 9.1 without adding additional surround sound speakers. The precise tuning of the SoundMatch Crossover also ensures balanced output throughout the frequency spectrum.
The Ultra Surround speaker also comes standard with a wall-mounting bracket or it can easily be placed on a speaker stand for maximum placement flexibility.
Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry
Every feature on the Ultra Surround speaker’s cabinet was designed with a sonic purpose in mind. Tapered edges on the cabinet’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimize edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging. Internally, each cabinet employs separate sealed enclosures for both mid-bass drivers and tweeters to optimize performance and minimize interaction. Even the grille design is FEA-optimized to maximize acoustic transparency.
Meticulous, Innovative Design Process
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 surround sound 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.
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User Reviews | Press Reviews
- Reviews
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USStill letting them break in.
Still letting them break in. Finish is amazing. Sound is amazing as well. You can't go wrong with SVS speakers. Absolutely love the ultra towers. Have the ultra center, two prime centers which are my rear surrounds, two ultra surrounds as my side surrounds, four prime elevations as my Dolby atmos and nothing against the elevations but really can't hear any overhead from my movies. I have the PB 4000 and to be honest hardly ever use it with the ultra towers. Everything is powered by a Denon x6700h avr. I don't have a large area so really don't need another amp right now. Another little tidbit I have all grills on all my speakers only time they come off is to wipe down dust, guess what no pushed in voice coils. I outgrew the showing off my speakers years ago. Nothing worse then walking in someone's house and having to see those gaudy copper looking speakers. Now having said all this realize one thing, this is my opinion not everybody else's.
USNot only do they sound
Not only do they sound great, perfectly designed and gorgeous on my wall.
US US USI’m sorry you asked for
I’m sorry you asked for my opinion, because I have nothing negative to say about these speakers. They are some off the best speakers I ever had the pleasures of listening to. You think with a product this high end your selling practice would be equal to or better than the sound. Instead of calling or emailing me that i was only purchasing 1 speaker was this correct? Instead i recieved 1 speaker with the note still on it for shipping “make this into a single’ is a pretty shitty way of selling your product!
SVS
Thanks for the candid feedback. We're very sorry for any misunderstanding or miscommunication on how SVS sells loudspeakers. SVS loudspeakers are sold individually and the cost is listed as 'each speaker'. They are shown as pairs on the website images, simply because that is the most common use case (with the exception of a center channel). We take all customer feedback seriously and we're always striving for continuous improvement as it relates to the website and purchasing experience. We have developed a process to screen out individual speaker purchases before they ship - so we can double check with the customer to confirm that's what they intended to order. Sorry again for the frustration and inconvenience and we're glad to see you are loving the Ultra Surround speakers! We appreciate your support of SVS and happy listening! Ed M - SVS
User Reviews | Press Reviews
The Ultra Speakers receive Sound & Vision’s 2013 Top Pick of the Year Award.
"Web-direct speaker-maker SVS, long known for outstanding subwoofers, knocked it out of the park on sound and build quality with the high-value, full-range Ultra speaker line."
About.com names SVS Ultra Speakers as the Best Home Theater Speakers of 2013
“… impeccably engineered, with the neutral, natural sound that serious speaker guys love. It does the delicacy/spaciousness/detail thing beautifully, and also plays loud as all hell… And if you need...
Home Theater Forum - Sam Chandler Reviews the Ultra 5.0 system
"These speakers, particularly the Tower, can do anything... performed flawlessly."
Widescreen Review Magazine - Gary Reber Reviews the SVS Ultra Series Loudspeakers
"… an exceptional multichannel loudspeaker system that is true to SVS’ tradition of offering higher performance for the money through R&D and design…the SVS Ultras offer a level of price/performance...
Marshall Guthrie - Audioholics, Reviews the Ultra Speakers
"...these are beautiful, capable speakers that are also a terrific value....remarkable speakers at a head turning price…their performance stands toe to toe with much more expensive contenders"
AV Nirvana Reviews the Ultra Center Loudspeaker
"Off-axis performance was excellent with highly intelligible vocals. Issued an expansiveness of sound that was breathtaking. They do everything exceptionally well while offering enthusiasts a price to performance ratio that...
AV Nirvana Reviews the Ultra Surround Loudspeaker
"Versatility, easy-to-use bracket system, and great sound quality are delivered in a space-friendly design. The Ultra Surrounds produce an intricate side and backend presentation that kept my head on a...
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