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SVS Prime Center Speaker
Product Description
Product Details:
PRIME CENTER: CLEAR DIALOGUE. SEAMLESS SOUNDSTAGE
A center speaker has a challenging part to play. It has to be a soloist‚¬?delivering clear and natural dialogue across a broad soundstage. A split second later, it has to fill the role of back-up band‚¬?melding with the ambiance of the environment to contribute realism in movies and music. The Prime Center delivers on both of these demands with world-class precision via its 1‚¬? aluminum dome tweeter, dedicated and independently sealed 3.5‚¬? midrange driver and dual 5.25‚¬? woofers ‚¬œ a true three-way design that is a rarity for center channel speakers in their price class. Voicing is neutral and natural, bringing dialogue and vocals forward just enough to be clear and intelligible. Yet, when called on to play its part in transitions‚¬?like a jet fighter soaring across the sky from left rear channel to front right‚¬?it blends in to create a smooth, realistic transition. Elegantly styled like its Prime siblings, the Center will look beautiful in any listening environment.
SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN ‚¬œ AMAZING SOUND AND PERFORMANCE
Borrowing liberally from the flagship Ultra Center, the Prime Center channel features a true 3-way center channel with a vertically-aligned tweeter and midrange driver. This eliminates comb filtering and lobing in the horizontal axis ‚¬œ resulting in crystal clear dialogue at all listening positions in the room. Now everyone will have a ‚¬˜sweet spot‚¬„ and won‚¬„t have to strain to hear dialogue.
The dual 5.25‚¬? woofers deliver a full and rich sound, doing full justice to deep male voices and delivering plenty of punch on special effects. And to make sure those beefy woofers can‚¬„t modulate the delicate and critical midrange frequencies, the midrange driver is mounted in its own dedicated and completely sealed compartment.
Available in premium-grade piano gloss black or handsome black ash finish, the Prime Center is handsomely styled and tells the world you‚¬„re serious about high performance home theater.
Specifications:
Driver Array and Technical Highlights:
- Vertically aligned tweeter and midrange reduces lobing and comb filtering along the horizontal axis.
- 1" aluminum dome tweeter:
- FEA-optimized diffuser delivers airy and unveiled presentation.
- Aluminum dome for exceptional transient response.
- 3.5" midrange driver:.
- Polypropylene cone for excellent stiffness/mass ratio and pistonic behavior.
- Cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket ensures precision component alignment and excellent thermal transfer.
- Vented voice coil former minimizes air compression artifacts.
- Dual 5.25" woofers:
- Long stroke motor and suspension for high output.
- 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.
SoundMatch Crossover Network:
- 3-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards.
- Midrange-to-tweeter crossover: 2.4 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes).
- Woofer-to-midrange crossover: 350 Hz (12 dB/octave slopes).
Cabinet Construction Technical Highlights:
- Separate sealed midrange enclosure shifts standing waves beyond the driver pass band, improving sound quality.
- Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles minimize diffraction.
- Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency response.
- FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances.
Frequency Response and Electro-Acoustic Data:
- Rated bandwidth: 48 Hz-25 kHz (+/-3 dB).
- Nominal impedance: 8 ohms.
- Sensitivity: 86 dB (2.83V @ 1 meter full-space, 300-3kHz).
- Recommended amplifier power: 20-200 watts.
All eligible company warranty and service support is being provided on SVS Prime Center Speaker