American audio company SVS announced the SVS Prime Elevation, a highly adaptable multi-purpose home theater speaker. This affordable speaker was designed to provide additional flexibility for different surround formats, as a center channel, height effect, side surround or front channel, with multiple mounting options, all while delivering the dynamics and subtle refinement of a much bigger speaker.
No wonder, the Youngstown, Ohio’s company says this is their most versatile home theater speaker ever. The SVS Prime Elevation is primed for ceiling, on-wall, speaker stand or shelf mounting in several arrays, intended to generate maximum sonic impact, well above its class for a speaker of its size and price.
There is no sideways or upside down with the SVS Prime Elevation. The compact, trapezoidal speaker, was acoustically engineered to offer the same detailed response and dynamics no matter what role it’s playing. The speaker is able to respond in multiple placement and set-up configurations, including when used as a down-firing height channel speaker, easily mounted high on a side wall, or as an up-firing height channel speaker for immersive audio formats, placed on stands or atop tower speakers.
The SVS Prime Elevation also responds well as an up-firing or down-firing front or center channel speaker with projector screens or where level placement at ear height is not possible. Another possibility is as a side or rear-firing surround speaker, when placement on a side or rear wall is not optimal for the most convincing side or back surround effects. A pair of Elevation speakers can also be wall-mounted and wired to become a bipole or dipole surround speaker.
“Adaptability has become a major factor in loudspeaker design, especially with the rise of more immersive audio formats,” said Gary Yacoubian, president, SVS. “The SVS Prime Elevation adjusts to almost any home theater set-up and plays a variety of roles exceptionally well. Audio enthusiasts will love all the possibilities this powerful, multi-purpose speaker affords.”
Included with the SVS Prime Elevation is a secure wall bracket kit that allows the speaker to be conveniently mounted in any of four positions and easily positioned for the best possible performance depending on the application. It also features a universal mounting option with a 1/4”, 20TPI brass insert that works with many other kits. The SVS Prime Elevation comes in three finishes: Gloss Black, Gloss White, and Black Ash with a hand-painted satin baffle.
Featuring a rated bandwidth of 69 Hz - 25 kHz (+/- 3dB), the SVS Prime Elevation performance compares to that of high end bookshelf speakers, but offers many more possibilities. Its crossover design and lower midrange and upper bass output allow it to blend seamlessly with subwoofers and speakers from SVS and other brands. When used in a multi-channel set-up, the speakers deliver crystal clear dialogue and vocals, an enveloping soundstage and seamless sonic transitions from front to back, side to side and overhead.As with its predecessors in the SVS Prime speaker line, Elevation includes a precision machined front baffle designed with chamfers to reduce tweeter diffraction, a FEA-optimized tweeter diffuser to deliver unveiled highs on or off-axis, a cast composite ABS and Glass Fiber woofer basket, and a sophisticated crossover design for excellent frequency response across the audio spectrum.
The 1” aluminum dome tweeter and 4.5” polypropylene cone woofer blend seamlessly together within the acoustically inert enclosure to provide a balanced speaker that works great for dialogue, action movie dynamics, dance music, vocals, sound effects and all other audio experiences.
“The flexibility of the SVS Prime Elevation makes it a great home theater investment because it can be used exclusively or moved around to suit different needs over time as a system grows,” Yacoubian adds.
The SVS Prime Elevation is sonically voiced to match with any of the company’s existing speakers and subwoofers. SVS currently manufacturers two full speaker lines, the Prime and Ultra Series, as well as a range of sealed, ported and cylinder subwoofers, and a line of SoundPath Audio Accessories. The SVS Prime Elevation will ship in April 2016 and has a target price of $349.
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