Prime Satellite

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Prime Satellite

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Big sound from a compact cabinet, the Prime Satellite speaker punches well above its class with impressive dynamics and pinpoint accuracy. Serves perfectly in a 5.1 home theater as surrounds or front left/right speakers with a subwoofer. Easily mounts to a wall or bracket.

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From the moment you feel the heft of the Prime Satellite speakers, you understand they’re not the typical compact satellite speaker designed primarily for lifestyle or visual appeal. The Prime Satellite is a bona fide small bookshelf speaker that deftly plays any role in a home theater or audio system, and shatters expectations while doing it.

No satellite speakers have ever offered the level of rigorous design, high-end components and precise build quality in a such a super compact cabinet. The Prime Satellite conveys stunning dynamic impact and convincing detail and refinement well beyond what’s expected from such a small speaker. It easily mounts on any wall or ceiling, or sits on any surface, and is painstakingly voiced to blend with all speakers from the SVS Prime and Ultra Series lines. It’s also neutral sounding enough to integrate seamlessly with speakers from other brands in multi-channel home theater surround sound systems. These factors give the Prime Satellite incredible flexibility to serve in many different roles depending on the layout of your room and the specific needs of your system.

Specifications

  • Tweeter 1"
  • Midrange 4.5"
  • Woofer N/A
  • Freq. Response 69 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
  • Dimension 8.85” (H) 4.9” (W) 6.3” (D)
Prime Satellite Speaker Owner's Manual

Engineering a small speaker to sound massive while maintaining detail and refinement means compromises aren’t an option. Every aspect of the Prime Satellite speakers was designed for sonic excellence. From the premium grade driver and sophisticated SoundMatch crossover to the extra-thick baffle, internal bracing, and FEA optimized tweeter diffuser, the Prime Satellite speaker’s design and engineering credentials put it in the realm of much costlier, and much larger speakers.

Prime Driver & Tweeter Design

Prime Drive & Tweeter Design

Thoughtfully designed for acoustic excellence, the 4.5-inch mid-woofer is mounted in its own dedicated and completely sealed compartment to ensure smooth, precise and clear midrange and bass output that’s 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.

The Prime Satellite speaker’s 1-inch aluminum 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 natural, crisp and smooth.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

Ultra Tower Crossover

SVS Ultra Tower Crossover

Since premium drivers require an equally capable crossover, no expense was spared with the innovative SVS SoundMatch 2-way crossover. Its tapered array is designed to minimize 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 of highs, mids, and lows, while maintaining pristine signal purity.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Tapered edges on the Prime Satellite speaker’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimize edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging. The cabinet’s presence offers a modern industrial feel with acoustic enhancements like shorting rings and a tweeter diffuser which add performance-driven style. All of these advancements are packed into a compact but attractive small bookshelf speaker cabinet, that’s easily mountable anywhere. Available in stunning piano gloss black or piano gloss white finish.

Frequency Response / Acoustic Data:

  • Rated bandwidth: 69 Hz-25 kHz (±3 dB)
  • Nominal impedance: 8 ohms.
  • Sensitivity: 85 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz)
  • Recommended amplifier power: 20-150 watts.

Speaker Specs:

  • Satellite Loudspeaker
  • Piano Gloss Black, and Piano Gloss White finish options
  • Single set of 5-way binding posts
  • 1” wide-flared rear-firing port
  • Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system
  • Elastomer stick-on bumper feet (adds 3mm to height)
  • Keyway bracket for easy and convenient wall mounting (includes extra bumper pads for wall stand-off)
  • Cabinet Dimensions: 8.75" (H) X 4.9" (W) X 6" (D)
  • Overall Dimensions: 8.85" (H) X 4.9" (W) X 6.3" (D) (includes grille and bumper feet)
  • Shipped Dimensions-2 Pack: 11.7" (H) X 13.9" (W) X 8.9" (D)
  • Shipped Dimensions 3 Pack: 11.7" (H) X 20.3" (W) X 8.9" (D)
  • Weight Unboxed: 6.5 pounds
  • Shipped Weight 2 Pack: 14.7 pounds
  • Shipped Weight 3 Pack: 21.7 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 behavior
  • 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 minimizes air compression artifacts

Crossover & Cabinet Specs:

Crossover:

  • 2-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards
  • Crossover network delivers outstanding phase coherency and time domain behavior
  • Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.3 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)

Cabinet:

  • Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles minimize diffraction
  • FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances
  • Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response
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Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
Based on 222 reviews
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Reviews Summary
Customers say these compact satellite speakers deliver impressive sound quality for their size. Many praise their substantial weight and build quality, noting they feel surprisingly hefty. Reviews highlight their clear, detailed audio performance, particularly when used as surround speakers in home theater setups. While most find them perfect for surrounds and height channels, some suggest larger bookshelf speakers may be better for front channels. The speakers blend well with other components, though several note they work best with a crossover above 80Hz. Users consistently mention the speakers' ability to create an immersive soundstage despite their small footprint.
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  • CW
    Charles W. A.
    Verified Buyer
    2 days ago
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    Prime Satellite - Piano Gloss - Outlet
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Small cabinets, serious sound — and a flawless timbre match

    I added the Prime Satellites to my Denon-based 7.2 home theater, and they’ve earned their place fast.

    The first thing that struck me was the build: the piano gloss finish is genuinely furniture-grade, dense and solid in the hand, with none of the hollow, plasticky feel you get from a lot of compact speakers.

    They look like jewelry on the wall and disappear into the room when you want them to.

    But it’s the sound that sold me. Paired with my SVS Prime Center, the timbre match is seamless — dialogue, panning effects, and music move across the soundstage without a single tonal seam.

    Voices stay natural, the top end is detailed without being harsh, and they image far better than their footprint suggests. For their size, the output and clarity are remarkable.

    Driven by my Denon AVR-X1700H, they integrated effortlessly and dialed in clean during room calibration. Whether I’m running a quiet, atmospheric film or a full-throttle action mix, they hold their composure and stay locked into the rest of the system.

    Bottom line: SVS keeps doing what they do best — engineering real performance into an accessible package and standing behind it. I’m thoroughly happy with these, and they’ve reinforced why I keep coming back to the Prime line. Highly recommended.

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    WILLIAM R.
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    1 week ago
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    Prime Satellite - Piano Gloss - Outlet
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Best satellite

    After lengthy DD, i found these to be top of the line for the size and usage as satellite speakers, based on detailed specs, without any trials. These were better, substantially. I can't wait for the center channel price to go down for a real deal!

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    Salvatore P.
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    Content use Movies, Music, Gaming, Streaming/Cable TV
    Product use Home theater surround sound
    1 week ago
    Content use Movies, Music, Gaming, Streaming/Cable TV
    Product use Home theater surround sound
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    Prime Satellite
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Great Sound

    Look slick and great sound!

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  • CC
    Craig C.
    Verified Buyer
    Content use Movies, Streaming/Cable TV
    Product use Home theater surround sound
    1 month ago
    Content use Movies, Streaming/Cable TV
    Product use Home theater surround sound
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    Prime Satellite
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    SVS Prime Satellite Replaced Klipsch

    I had some Klipsch speakers as my rear surrounds while all of my other 5 Home Theater speakers were SVS. After I swapped the Klipsch out for the SVS prime satellites the surround effects seemed to be less bright than with the Klipsch. When I rewatched TOP Gun Maverick again, the surround effect was more detailed and did not overwhelm the front stage speakers during the initial flight scene when he pulled the Mach 10. If you want an affordable surround speaker of high quality, consider the Prime Satellites

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    Craig C.
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    1 month ago
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    Prime Satellite - Piano Gloss - Outlet - 1721
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    SVS Prime Satellites for Left and Right surrounds

    I decided to swap out my Left and Right surround speakers from Klipsch to SVS so they could timbre match my SVS Ultra Evolution LCR and Atmos Elevation speakers. After I performed the swap, the surrounds seemed to blend in much better to my front stage after running A1 EVO on my Denon AVR. For their smaller size they do feel solidly built and have good sound quality.

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