SVS Prime Centre Centre Speaker

For the Prime Series SVS has engineered an affordable yet true three-way, four-driver design featuring a 1″ aluminium dome tweeter, dedicated 3.5″ mid-range driver and dual 5.25″ woofers. Its exclusive SoundMatch three- way crossover ensures a smooth transition between all drivers for effortless projection into the room, both on and off-axis. To avoid mid-range modulation from all that woofer power, SVS has mounted the mid-range driver in its own dedicated and completely sealed compartment, which ensures natural and immersive dialogue clarity and vocal timbre, even during bass-heavy tracks and scenes.

Well-equipped to play the most important role in a surround sound home theater, every aspect of the Prime Centre speaker was designed for sonic excellence. From the premium grade drivers and sophisticated SoundMatch three-way crossover to the extra-thick baffle, internal bracing and FEA optimised tweeter diffuser, the Prime Centre speaker’s design and engineering features drive its performance into uncharted territory for a center channel speaker at its price.

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 Centre 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 optimised bass extension the cabinet is rear ported and optimally tuned for dual woofers.

Providing the perfectly balanced voicing for the Prime Centre 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 Centre speaker’s front baffle, known as chamfers, minimise 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 and is available in stunning piano gloss black or premium black ash finish.

Key Features

• 1” aluminium dome tweeter
• 3.5” mid-range driver
• Dual 5.25” woofers
• SoundMatch Crossover Network: 3-way crossover with premium-grade capacitors, air-core inductors and heavy-trace printed circuit boards
• Dual 1” wide-flared rear-firing ports
• Rated bandwidth: 48 Hz-25 kHz (+/-3 dB)
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
• Sensitivity: 86 dB (2.83V @ 1 m full-space, 300-3kHz)
• Recommended amplifier power: 20-200 watts
• 5-way binding posts
• Dimensions (HxWxD): 19.3 x 20.3 x 21.1 cm (includes grille, binding posts and bumper feet)
• Weight: 9.2 kg