Ultra Surround - Piano - Outlet - 1108
Ultra Surround - Piano - Outlet - 1108
>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, whether used as side surround or rear surround speakers.
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.
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 SoundMatch Crossover Design
SVS Ultra Tower 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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United StatesSurrounds
I read many reviews and talked with the staff at SVS. I originally bought the Ultra bookshelf for my surrounds. I mounted them to the wall and they sound great.My wife looked at them and said no. She said they were ugly. So I purchased the ultra surrounds. I removed the Ultra bookshelves and mounted the surrounds. Much better she said. Since I now had a set of bookshelves I thought what to do. I could send them back. While she was at the store I mounted the ultra bookshelves behind the seating area, she came home and rolled her eyes. I am not an audiophile. I was replacing a set of poles I purchased in the eighties. These sound great. I am pleased with the product.
United StatesWonderful sound…Wonderful value.
Half the price of the Revel surrounds I was going to buy, with sound quality to match the Revels. Solid mounting system and extremely responsive customer service department. No remorse here.
United StatesCohesive Surround Sound
I recently purchased a pair of SVS Ultra Surround speakers from the Outlet to replace my 15 year old side surround speakers in my 5.2.4 system. The old surround speakers did not voice match well with the Ultra Towers and Center and the Prime Elevations. With Ultra Surrounds installed, the soundscape is now cohesive and precise when watching 4K movies with surround sound. The clarity of the soundscape is amazing. My surround system is now completely upgraded with SVS speakers and subwoofers. I’m so pleased with my SVS sound system.
United StatesThese surrounds will not disappoint
I replaced some older surround speakers that had a rather colored sound and were not quite up to par with the rest of my HT system. Wow. I played material that put some volume into the surrounds in order to evaluate their sound. The sound was very natural, rich and detailed. No complaints. Not only that, but the fit and finish looks every bit as good as the product pictures. Glad I upgraded to these.
United StatesBeautiful speakers that sounds just as good as they look
I got these speakers to replace old bookshelf speakers in the rear channels of my 5.1.4 system and the first thing I noticed was the exceptional wide sound it spreads around the back of the room. Despite only having 2 speakers in the back and sides of the room it felt like sound was all around me! The quality of the sound is phenomenal as well, very very crisp and detailed, amazing for movies and music as well, can go pretty deep, and these speakers are absolutely beautiful! They can be configured several different ways to work for different systems and each can even operate as 2 separate speakers. SVS customer service is the best in class, I've had a wonderful experience with everyone I've spoken with, they are a phenomenal company, a truly rare find, and the value of these speakers, especially if from the outlet or sale, is second to none! I've tried literally dozens of speakers for my setup before deciding with these from brands like kef to martin logan, monitor audio, and triangle, and nothing near the price of the SVS ultras is even comparable. I have no complaints at all about these speakers and if they are in your budget for surround speakers, definitely give them a try!
