Review on 🔊 SVS Prime Satellite Speakers: Elevate Your Audio Experience with Premium Black Ash Pair by Tim Clark

I don't know how these speakers got such a high rating. Either they're deaf, haven't heard anything better, or it's bigotry. SVS builds good subwoofers, maybe there are also good speakers in the Ultra series. But this Prime Satellite doesn't fall into that category. These speakers really do sound like tin can speakers, at higher volumes they chug and chug due to too much port noise. The sound is like voices coming through a pipe. I bought these to replace the Definitive Procinema 800 for bedroom sound. For aesthetic reasons I chose small speakers and no subwoofer, and I don't expect a large base from these speakers. I expected them to offer something similar to the Definitive Promonitor 800 with similarly sized speakers but an even smaller cabinet. Using various KEF, Definitive, Energy I expected the sound quality of the SVS to be on par at this price point. Although less efficient, the output level isn't an issue with bedroom speakers, and the build quality is pretty good too. The problem is how harsh and harsh they sounded. It sounded like crap in Direct Pure Audio mode, so we ran the Audyssey Multi-EQ XT 32 calibration, which cleared up the tone a bit after a few hours. According to SVS they are rated at 68 Hz +- 3 dB, but the sound and picture test rated them at 98 Hz +_ 3 dB. (Check out Sound and Vision Prime Satellite 5.1 review, testbench results). This explains one of the reasons why these sounds are so awful, that they couldn't reproduce the low registers properly. Forget male voices. I don't know how/where SVS got 68Hz+-3dB, maybe on Mars. The Definitive Promonitor 800 is much smoother, cleaner and more open than these. However, I ran them at a pretty decent volume for over 30 hours to get through. After 30+ runs, the staging seems to have gotten a little better, the lower registers are a little better. . But that didn't correct the sonic signature of the voices coming through the tube. There are hundreds of speakers out there that sound ten times better than these premium satellites at much better prices. Maybe $100 is fine, but not great speakers. Build quality and sound quality are not the same. As I said above the build quality is great but I can't believe how SVS could make such terrible speakers. Perhaps SVS will become just another Bose where people pay for the name and not the actual sound quality. I welcome any feedback if people think I need to do something special to hear the quality of these speakers. By the way, amplifiers are not a problem, they are controlled by fairly powerful receivers only in two-channel mode.