It's rare, if not impossible to find a true 3-way center channel speaker at even close to what the Prime Center costs. Leveraging design elements and technology from the SVS Ultra Center, the Prime Center speaker features premium drivers and crossover components and sophisticated engineering that put it in a class by itself when compared to other center speakers in its class.

Center channel speakers are often considered the most underrated speakers in a home theater because they handle so much of the content yet are designed as afterthoughts by many audio brands. The SVS Prime Center accepts no compromises and anchors the front soundstage of a 5.1 home theater surround sound system or other set-ups with precision and power that complements even the most high-end multi-channel systems.

Prime Driver & Tweeter Design

Since center channel speakers handle a large percentage of the audio content, including dialogue and vocals, and much of that sound falls within the mid-range, SVS engineered an incredibly light and rigid polypropylene cone for the Prime Center speaker’s mid-range driver to provide a flat frequency response and to generate the SPL necessary for stunning in-room dynamics and an expansive front soundstage. The mid-range driver is also housed in its own sub-enclosure within the cabinet to ensure there’s no modulation from the robust woofers.

The 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter is light, efficient, and rigid, playing crystal clear at high volumes for a sense of utter transparency, while offering an ‘airy’ presentation and incredibly unveiled highs so female vocals and dialogue always sound crisp, smooth and clear. The potent 5.25-inch woofers are built on an all-new cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket for precise component alignment and an inert frame without resonances or added harmonics. The light and rigid cone material render a flat frequency response and deliver deep and authoritative low frequency playback. For optimized bass extension the cabinet is rear ported and optimally tuned for dual woofers.

Innovative SoundMatch Crossover Design

Providing the perfectly balanced voicing for the Prime Center speaker is a proprietary SVS SoundMatch crossover that sports premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors, and heavy-trace printed circuit boards. This combination of high-quality components yields lower distortion, tighter tolerances and all around better sound for the critical, dialogue and action-focused front soundstage. The 3-way crossover is uniquely tuned so each driver blends perfectly with each other while offering excellent on and off-axis response and pinpoint spatial imaging for the most convincing audio experience possible.

Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Tapered edges on the Prime Center speaker’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimize edge diffraction for clear and precise soundstaging. The cabinet’s presence is substantial but it does not take over a room visually and offers a modern industrial feel with acoustic enhancements like shorting rings and a tweeter diffuser. All of these advancements are packed into an attractively styled cabinet available in stunning piano gloss black or premium black ash finish.

Frequency Response / 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

Speaker Specs:

• Available finishes: Black ash and piano gloss black
• Single set of 5-way binding posts
• Dual 1” wide-flared rear-firing ports
• Cloth grille with pin/cup retention system
• Elastomer stick-on bumper feet (adds 3mm to height)
• Cabinet Dimensions: 7.6" (H) x 18.6" (W) x 8.6" (D)
• Overall Dimensions: 7.7" (H) x 18.6" (W) x 9.2" (D) (includes grille and bumper feet)
• Shipped Dimensions: 12.2" (H) x 23" (W) x 13.4" (D)
• Weight Unboxed: 20.2 pounds
• Shipped Weight: 23.3 pounds

Driver Specs:

• 1” Aluminum Dome Tweeter:
  • FEA-optimized diffuser for airy presentation
  • Aluminum dome for transient response
• 3.5” Midrange Driver:
  • Polypropylene cone for stiffness/mass ratio
  • Cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket for precision alignment and 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 stiffness/mass ratio
  • Aluminum shorting ring for low distortion
  • Cast ABS-fiberglass composite basket for precision alignment and thermal transfer
  • Vented voice coil former minimizes air compression artifacts

Crossover & Cabinet Specs:

• Crossover:
  • 3-way with premium-grade components
  • Midrange-to-tweeter crossover: 2.4 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)
  • Woofer-to-midrange crossover: 350 Hz (12 dB/octave slopes)
• Cabinet:
  • Separate sealed midrange enclosure improves sound quality
  • Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce diffraction
  • FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances