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.
Prime Driver & 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
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
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, piano gloss white or premium black ash 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:
- Available finishes: Premium Black Ash, Piano Gloss Black, and Piano Gloss White
- 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 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 presentation
- Aluminum dome for transient response
- 4.5” Midrange Driver:
- 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:
- 2-way with premium-grade components
- Tweeter-to-woofer crossover: 2.3 kHz (12 dB/octave slopes)
- Outstanding phase coherency and time domain behavior
- Cabinet:
- Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles minimize diffraction
- FEA-optimized cabinet and bracing eliminates resonances
- Chamfered front baffle and flush-mounted drivers reduce diffraction and improve on-axis high frequency response
