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SVS Ultra Evolution Center Speaker

The SVS Ultra Evolution center speaker is a 3-way center speaker that sets a new standard for dialogue clarity, dynamic impact, and seamless integration with the rest of your home theater system. As part of SVS’s flagship Ultra Evolution series, this speaker incorporates cutting-edge driver technology, innovative cabinet design, and meticulous engineering to deliver uncompromising audio performance.

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Acoustically-Aligned

The most striking design feature of the Ultra Evolution Center is its acoustically-centered, time-aligned speaker architecture. The curvature of the front baffle ensures that sound from the tweeter and midrange drivers reaches the listener simultaneously, maximizing phase coherence for a more convincing and immersive soundstage with exceptional accuracy and imaging.

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Diamond-Coated Aluminum Dome Tweeter

SVS introduces an all-new diamond-coated aluminum dome tweeter in the Ultra Evolution series. A layer of diamond carbon is deposited on the surface of the aluminum dome, enhancing stiffness and critical acoustic properties. This breakthrough pushes frequency response well beyond the limits of human hearing, resulting in airy and unveiled highs with no measurable distortion. It also extends the tweeter’s low-frequency reach for seamless blending with the midrange driver.

Organic Cell Structure Tweeter Diffuser

The Ultra Evolution Center features an organic cell structure tweeter diffuser, meticulously engineered for optimal acoustic performance. SVS engineers prototyped dozens of grille patterns and, through FEA analysis, chose a semi-random pattern derived from organic cellular structures for its optimized off-axis frequency response and sound dispersion.

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Drivers

The Ultra Evolution Center employs an 11.4 cm midrange driver housed in a dedicated acoustic suspension enclosure, ensuring impeccable midrange output and seamless blending with the tweeter. Two 16.5 cm woofers deliver deep, accurate bass for the most demanding center channel content. The drivers feature glass fiber composite cones chosen for their excellent stiffness-to-mass ratio, contributing to dynamic and precise sound reproduction.

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Cabinet Design

The Ultra Evolution Center’s cabinet is designed without compromise. Separate, acoustically tuned internal chambers for the midrange driver enhance separation and eliminate cabinet resonances, resulting in pristine sound across the frequency spectrum. The chamfered front baffle minimizes edge diffraction for optimal off-axis frequency response. Precision-cast aluminum alloy baskets ensure precise alignment of critical components and maximize heat dissipation.

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Premium Crossover Components

The speaker features a three-way crossover with high-quality capacitors, inductors, resistors, and a high-copper-density printed circuit board. The crossover is meticulously tuned to seamlessly blend the output of the drivers, rendering subtle musical details with stunning clarity and massive dynamics with weight and control from the highest to the lowest octaves.

Benefits of the SVS Ultra Evolution Center Channel Speaker

Unrivaled clarity and intelligibility for dialogue
Expansive, three-dimensional soundstage
Transparent integration with other Ultra Evolution speakers
Exceptional dynamic range and transient response
Deep, articulate bass without distortion
Wide optimal listening area for flexible seating arrangements
Timbre-matched to other SVS speakers for easy mixing and matching
Sophisticated and attractive cabinet design

Documentation

User manual

Technical Specifications

General Configuration

3-way speaker
Two rear flared bass-reflex ports of 40 mm
Two gold-plated connection terminals
Fabric grille with magnetic attachment
Elastomer feet to stick on

Speakers

25 mm tweeter with diamond coating

Aerospace-grade aluminum dome with vapor-deposited diamond coating
- High-frequency response beyond human hearing
- Exceptional fidelity, linearity, and transient response
Honeycomb structure optimized by finite element analysis
Silver wire cabling