forget about the looks of the speakers i wanna know who has the best high end sound quality overall!! The result is a speaker that measures well with near flawless real-world frequency response, but also optimized to sound amazing on a human level through listening tests with real music and cinematic content, in a real world listening environment like your home. Before a model is ever constructed, drivers and cabinets are theoretically designed by our acoustic engineers using the most sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) processes available. Then prototypes are carefully measured and optimized in an anechoic environment to achieve pitch-perfect frequency response. After the ideal theoretical frequency response is attained, exhaustive listening and measurement is done in listening rooms calibrated to closely resemble typical home-like room environments. Unique tapered midrange array miniimizes off-axis lobing and enhances radiated sound power into listening space Since premium drivers require an equally capable crossover, no expense was spared with the intelligent SVS SoundMatch 3.5-way crossover. Its tapered array is designed so only the top midrange driver crosses over to the tweeter, while the bottom midrange is crossed over to the woofers to minimize the potential for beaming. This creates an expansive, yet focused and precise soundstage, with accurate frequency response and imaging at all listening positions in the room. The precise tuning of the SoundMatch Crossover also ensures pinpoint accuracy from sparkling highs down to subterranean lows, while maintaining pristine signal purity. Performance Driven Cabinet Design and Geometry

Clearly, SVS believes it has designed a speaker that shatters previous attempts at redefining the price-to-performance barrier. We just had to find out for ourselves whether or not that was true. Here’s what we found. Out of the box In a 7.1 system, dedicated rear surround speakers are placed behind the primary seating position for enhanced rear panning effects. SVS Ultra Tower Speaker features: Subwoofer diameter: 5 inches | Dimensions: 14.2 x 11.6 x 40.2 inches | Weight: 10 pounds | Frequency response: 45kHz-50,000 Hz | Sensitivity: 88dB Going loud enough to seriously bother your neighbours, these speakers excel in deep, tight, impactful bass which, for all its heft, is still agile and responsive.Cables: Audio Art SE and Classic cable looms, JPS Labs Ultraconductor 2 speaker cables, Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Interconnects/Extreme 2 speaker cables, Signal Cable Silver Reference interconnects and speaker cables, digital optical and coax cable. When you consider all the design and testing that went into these, to have them come up short in the treble area is a disappointment. I value your candor in the review and its always refreshing to see a reviewer tell it like it is rather than just heaping on the platitudes. Aluminum shorting ring to reduce gap inductance, lower distortion, and enhance high frequency response

With 80% of the sound coming in mids, the drivers unveils the core of the speaker’s timbre. Augmenting high-frequency performance, the Ultra Tower speaker’s aluminum dome tweeter is incredibly transparent and precise. Light, efficient, robust and resistant to distortion, the tweeter’s airy’ reproduction of vocals and tranparent highs reveal as much as the finest loudspeakers worldwide. The FEA-optimised diffuser grants broad dispersion for an exceptionally wide and convincing soundstage with perfect on/off-axis response. Design Process I have already tried the bookshelf option with the SB-13Ultra, it just doesn't work. What works best is the BP10's flying solo with no sub, more often than not the SB-13Ultra just sits there looking heavy. Which is why the Triton Seven and SVS Ultra Tower caught my attention, full-range speakers without powered built-in subs. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. True, SVS did offer speakers in the past, but even though they were pretty good, the company always kept its attention on frequencies below 80 Hz. Now with the addition of Mark Mason — an ex-PSB engineer who does his testing in the anechoic chamber at Canada’s National Research Council in Ottawa — SVS is getting serious about full-range sound. Acoustically transparent and FEA optimized grilles, wedge-shaped front baffle and flush-mounted drivers all contribute to reduced edge diffraction and improved on-axis high frequency responseHere’s something that the folks at SVS probably aren’t going to be too pleased to hear. They do, after all, make some mind blowing subwoofers, like the PB16-Ultra ( full review here). But we believe it, so we’re going to say it: the bass on the Ultra Towers is good enough that you could quite conceivably get away without ever having a subwoofer. Don’t get us wrong - we always recommend having one, because subwoofers are awesome - but with four angled 8” woofers pumping out ear-melting low-end, you could make a very good argument for spending the money you would spend on a sub on…we don’t know, whiskey. Beer. A Game Of Thrones box set and matching life-size Daenerys Targaryen statue. Because at top volume, the Ultra Towers put out some utterly magnificent bass. It didn’t have the volume or sheer power of a dedicated subwoofer, but it anchored the sound with the deep, roaring low-end, and was a titanic amount of fun to listen to. Prime Pinnacle measurements: SoundStageNetwork.com | SoundStage.com - NRC Measurements: SVS Prime Pinnacle Loudspeakers With its Ultra series subwoofers garnering nearly-universal praise from critics, it seems like a particularly good time for SVS to re-enter the speaker market with a product that shares the same name. Indeed, the Ultra series is a complete departure from anything SVS has produced in the past – you can tell this just by looking at the speakers – but we wanted to know more, so we spoke to Mark Mason, Director of Product Management at SVS about what’s so “Ultra” about these new products.