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PC - ULTRA CYLINDER Powered Cylinder Ultra Series
Regardless if you are an expert or newly looking into high-performance audio, we challenge you to find a sub with more performance heritage, with parts half this good, and with a price that's even close... and you are sure to know this SVS keeps the faith with its predecessors and its famous SVS Powered Cylinder and Powered Box brothers. Nothing takes up less floor space or works better than the new PC-Ultra.
Just glance at the third generation Ultra woofer here, and you know why the most discerning audiophile customers go with SVS Ultra subs. While we've long built some of the world's best audio components ... if we have a crown jewel, this is it.
Made by hand in small batches, with incredible attention to quality control, the "Ultra" woofer has few peers, at any price. One recent veteran magazine reviewer called the previous generation PC-Ultra simply the "best subwoofer I have ever tested". Colour us, not surprised.
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Listen
to the experts : Sensible Sound has been a voice for
world-class
affordable value for years. Veteran reviewer Howard Ferstler called the
last
PC-Ultra the best sub he ever tested. Read why.
Couple the virtually bullet-proof performance of the completely new Ultra-13 woofer with our new 750 watt BASH amplifier designed for our new and exclusive Powered Cylinder subs... and you have accuracy, durability, incredible depth and more flexibility in setup and tuning than nearly anything you can buy anywhere else. Of course the cylinder design that made SVS famous is included, along with true variable tuning, fully modular service-ready design, parametric equalizer, and a tough but attractive fabric that's at home in any home.
In short, for any music or movie audio enthusiast, this is might just be the $3,000 subwoofer to beat (it's just that we only charge $1,399). Don't wait long to get your order in for this SVS. They're always selling like ... well... like SVS's.
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Not everyone needs a subwoofer this good, but nearly everyone we speak to simply lusts over the components that pack the SVS PC-Ultra. More proof that people know the best when they see it.
And make no mistake, it doesn't get much better than what's in this subwoofer. Since we look at all manner of products from all sorts of OEMs in our comparative research, we're quite confident in saying you can easily spend twice as much on a subwoofer, with a driver that's not as advanced as this one. The reasons for this are simple, the heart (our Ultra-13" woofer) and the brains (the 750 watt Bash amp) are the best components we could afford to put in a sub still this affordable.
The new PC-Ultra amp was a similar exercise in the quest for performance first and foremost. We took a very costly and perfectly adequate 500 watt RMS amp we'd developed with Indigo Manufacturing in Toronto Canada, and went and made it better by bumping up power considerably (to 750 watts) and loaded on features at the same time. More reliable, more capable of the incredible transients, the Ultra woofer can handle, and still includes the one piece drop-in design that makes replacement (in the rare situation it should ever be needed) literally a 10 minute job with a screwdriver. The on-board Parametric Equalizer (PEQ), room compensation, and new connection options are all there for expert users fine tuning in-room frequency response.
SVS Ultra-13 High Output Subwoofer Driver
The "driver" (or "woofer") inside our subs is the heart of what has made SVS so famous in the audio world. The entirely new " Ultra-13" (as it's called in-house) seen here is arguably one of the finest you can own, at any price, and it's only in our new PC-Ultra and its "Powered Box " brother, the PB13-Ultra. This truly amazing woofer is built exclusively by us, exclusively for you. Virtually every part was designed by our Ohio based crew with an eye towards the best performance possible. We don't even ask the price till we're happy we've met the demanding standards we know you will demand yourself. Beautiful, bullet-proof, and with high-tech features the most tech savvy audiophile in your home will envy.
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For starters, check out the stunning SVS die cast "basket" which holds the rest of our painstakingly researched parts. Also prominent are materials from the aerospace industry such as the front "cone", and superior USA made" voice-coils" deep inside. Many critical parts are invisible, yet vital to long life, not to mention the brutal yet subtle demands your movies and music will place upon this gem. Many features are innovations virtually no other brands will use even if you do spend far more, often thousands more. It's the advantage of buying factory direct -- we spare little expense when it comes to ensuring the core technology runs strong and deep today, and will humble far more expensive products on the market for many years to come.
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Let us know if you have any questions, technical or simple, about our amazing Ultra-13 woofer. It's the heart of every world-class SVS Ultra sub.
Integrated Base Plate with Down-firing Woofer and Floor Mounts
No matter how your rock rolls, or how low your organ goes, the shock waves emanating from that high efficiency woofer propagate out from a fixed platform, our integrated base-plate. Not the floor, and not your ceiling. When you're in the midst of your favorite action movie scene you might wonder if such a stylish, modern looking enclosure can can really move your home theater (without moving around itself). Fortunately for SVS customers, all the drama will be on screen, and all around you in gut pounding, accurate bass. Your subwoofer will serenely be belting it out at all the right moments. Rock solid. Utterly unflappable. Once again, form follows function at SVS.
Want another example of thinking outside the box? How about something simple, like putting our drivers in the preferred downward firing position. Easier said than done in a slender column oriented subwoofer. But doing it this way makes for the most stable enclosure. Its low center of gravity and an inherently well-protected woofer mean years of rock-solid performance. Bass that goes this low, starts there too. Who needs a top-heavy sub? Get an SVS powered cylinder and forget that.
So maybe you have a hard floor and it's time to setup your sub? You
won't find hard plastic feet or metal spikes that will vibrate on your
SV Subwoofer. Instead the default mounting configuration is a set of
compliant disks perfectly suited for wood, vinyl or tile flooring.
Because our subs have such a low center of gravity the same setup works
just as well on thickly padded
and
carpeted floors too.
Architectural-Grade. Black Fabric Exterior
Some audio enclosures and grills are made from some pretty cheap materials. At SVS we don't cut corners in an effort to increase profits. We just hand select excellent materials that we'd want (and have) in our own homes. Specially laminated and extra thick 1.5" birch baffles, and costly high-end fabrics. All still brought to you at affordable prices.
"Tri-Power" High Flow Ports
As always, ordinary ports won't do to vent the intense pressures and frequencies of our ported subwoofers. These new PC-Ultra flares are an SVS exclusive, whopping 3.5" inner diameter (ID) and still heavily flared (both inside the sub and the outer flare, too) needed to allow the massive Ultra-13 woofer to belt out music or movie audio and still keep that tiny "footprint" of the Powered Cylinder shape. You can rest assured they are costly, but just because some makers skimp by without them doesn't mean any of your SVS subwoofers ever will.
Precision machined to mount flush with high-density seals, and flanked by enhanced hand laminated black finished Baltic Birch end-caps (a whopping 1.5" thick). You will want to keep peeking under our specially damped 15" black mesh grill just to see them.
If you think these look like highly engineered bass tuning ports... you'd be right, only our new Ultra models come with them. How they work, when coupled with an SVS driver, is something Ultra customer often can't quite believe even when they hear it. Want even deeper bass?? Take just a few seconds and Insert one of the included "port blockers" (one is inserted into a port area photo below) and you have taken your subwoofer nearly 5Hz lower in "tune". Drop it another few Hz by inserting two. Great for those intent on tweaking their sound as they want it in their room.
Resonance Free, Protective Top Port Grill
No
driver to damage up top there, but who needs the kids dropping their toy
cars into your sub? Specially modified for total resonance damping,
these stylish grills are as good looking as they are functional. Did we
mention that the special damping features were added because we once
detected a hint of harmonics emanating from the grill (on a special test
tone)? Yes, someone did sweat the details on the performance of each
component in your next sub. We're the largest user of these grills in
the entire industry. Some OEMs have people buy their own grills.
750 Watt RMS Built-In BASH Amplifier
It's
an old song if you've followed SVS's rise to prominence in the audio
world, but here's yet another high output full-featured digital
switching amp born our of the partnership between SVS and Indigo
Manufacturing, one of the most capable and largest original equipment
manufacturers in the world. Built in Canada to exacting standards seldom
seen in this price class, its rugged, clean layout and construction
serves as a perfect complement to SVS Powered Boxes. Quite literally,
thousands of man-hours are expended dialing in performance that
perfectly matches the new PB13-Ultra woofer and its enclosure. As
always, we even made sure our own logo graced this amp as a reminder
that no other subwoofer manufacturer has it. And since you can only get
one on your SVS, you won't see them floating around the various "do it
yourself" web sites either. Isn't it nice to know your amp was made just
for your sub?
Power ratings are perhaps the least reliable way to judge a subwoofer's performance in the real-world, but don't let the conservative real-world power rating deceive you. Given our latest woofers and the exceptionally efficient SVS box designs, the SVS PB13-Ultra can embarrass other subwoofers touting many thousands of watts (often based on "peak power" or other misleading terms). You can rely on our powerhouse Canadian built amps to provide the foundation for that amazing Ultra-13 woofer profiled above.
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This is one amp you can count on to provide years of accurate, deep and powerful bass. Get the BASH advantage on your SVS now. Contact us for more details on any amp feature, the staff that designed it will be the same which respond to your questions.
More on BASH
BASH®
is a proven class of amplification, answering the market needs for
efficiency without compromising sound quality. BASH® is a patented "High
Efficiency Linear Amplifier" circuit topology that has taken the best of
Class D and Class AB and created a new Class of its own. By combining a
fast response power converter with a linear amplifier, BASH® is able to
maintain both class AB sonic performance and class D efficiency.
BASH®
can produce high power levels without cost penalties typically
associated with conventional amplifier designs. A linear amplifier rated
at 100 Watts should be able to deliver 20 Watts continuously. If the
same amplifier is to play musical transients that are 10dB louder than
its rated power, the amplifier must be able to deliver 1000 watts
dynamically. To deliver such dynamic power would require the internal
power supply rails to be 300% higher, and the resulting power dissipated
at 20 watts output to be 350% higher resulting in increases to heat
sinks, power transformer, bulk capacitors, output devices and ultimately
increases the cost.
BASH®
provides customers new solutions, opens new markets, offers greater
flexibility, and ultimately reduces the cost of amplification.
Flush-mount Amp Configuration
What makes the SVS PC-type subwoofers so unique? Well, besides being packed with components normally only found in subs costing thousands more, is the fact only SVS figured out how to take a state of the art “plate amp” and mount it flush, safe and secure in the nicest looking and best built cylinder subwoofer in the world. Countless designs were tested and what finally made the cut was something so robust, so effective and so elegant that SVS simply had to build it. All the advantages of a subwoofer cylinder, with the convenience of an “all in one”, built-in amp. That’s the PCi and PC-Plus and now PC-Ultra subwoofers…only available at SVS.
Frequency Response For The Real World
Technical notes: Smoothed, quasi-anechoic frequency response: Measured with high resolution instrumentation via "ground plane" technique, outdoors, at two meters' distance, a minimum of 70 feet from reflective boundaries. 20 and 15Hz, 10 and sealed modes indicated
15 Hz, 10 Hz, and sealed FRs are deliberately over damped in order to provide a gentle roll-off when measured under quasi-anechoic conditions. This increases available system headroom, and also makes better use of available "room gain" (i.e., the acoustic transfer function of the room) to achieve a flatter in-room response."
In-room extension, with corner placement, will typically yield 3-5Hz greater linear extension than shown. Results will vary based on room size, seat distance from your SVS sub, and subwoofer location in the room. Chart does not depict maximum output of this model and is not directly comparable to other SVS models except for frequency response.