When you already build the world's best subwoofers, you know your speakers have to be something special too. In fact they must be among the very best in the world for the price The SBS-01 Packages, all designed to pair with the PB10-ISD or other high quality subwoofer are just that:

Compact, great looking, built like proverbial tanks, articulate, smooth and immensely powerful for any sort of audio. From two channel classical to full surround sound high resolution, high power pop and rock. Their performance simply will stun you and belie their simplicity and cost.

Looking at the frequency response charts (further down the page) gives you audio cake? Try and find an affordable package like this with more. Multiple installation options, great looks grill on or off, flexible package configurations. We even provide a simple and effective base for your center channel speaker which allows good alignment with your ears, no matter where it's put. Optional stands and brackets round out your choices.

With the SBS-01 speaker sets, we've poured all we know into creating an affordable, good looking and most importantly a superbly performing speaker set that is tough to beat in any regard, even given the broad array of choices in this crowded market. Push them hard, try them with any sort of audio, any sort of amp. Coupled to one of our subwoofers like the industry leading PB10-ISD and you'll wonder who "needs" more speaker than this.

There are lots of speaker choices out there, but few as good and virtually none better. Without question these are the only speakers able to wear the SVS logo.

    Features

- Removable Grill with chrome pin retainers

- ClearSilk™ tweeter and NBS™ woofer  

- Smooth and seamless braced cabinet

- Multiple installation modes

- Audiophile-grade crossover

- Linear frequency response

 

Removable Grill

Seems pretty common, in fact few quality speakers have grills that are not removable these days. So what's the draw here? Well notice we took great pains to make sure the finest components are used at each step. Instead of chintzy plastic "ball and socket" fittings, we use chrome steel pins embedded in our grills and matching soft rubber fittings to receive them. No way you are going to snap off one of those when you remove your SBS-01 satellite or SCS-01 center channel grill.

But wait there's more. While it'd be easy to slap on a generic plastic or square cut fingerboard grill wrapped with cheap fabric, we didn't. Virtually invisible unless you look close, we even rounded the inside edges of the grill to assure that sound dispersion and diffraction is minimized when you use your grill. It's a little thing, but it's an example of the lengths we'll go, even on what's our "entry level" speaker package. That fabric was specially chosen to remain color stable in all light and stay good looking even kicked around by pets, kids or party guests.

 

    Custom SVS ClearSilk™ tweeter NBS™ woofer

SVS didn't invent the first woofer, we didn't invent the first tweeter. However, we are as capable as any OEM in the world to evaluate any "off the shelf" part in the world. Yet, no component we use in the SBS-01 satellite speaker, or the SCS-01 center channel is "off the shelf". Woofers, trim rings, frequency response, impedance, power-handling even bezels and screws were all painstakingly optimized and customized where appropriate. Our R/D team worked for months to optimize every part and complement the whole design, to enhance performance and do so while keeping a lid on costs. Ultimately costly parts were used but our buying power meant even then, your speaker's price wasn't nudged upwards. Even with each speaker fully video shielded we resisted the suggestions to raise price. We're stubborn that way. Even the exact position of the woofers and the tweeters on the narrow front baffle and tight sealed cabinet were endlessly tweaked to ensure great imaging and wide sound stage. These are speakers that with just basic setup skill will visually and audibly disappear in your room. You won't hear speakers you'll just hear the musical artist, or sounds effects, or the actor.

 

    Smooth and seamless braced cabinet

Just be sure your knuckles are in good shape. Here we spent countless hours to design and deliver a simple elegant design that didn't sacrifice utility to aesthetics. No origami-like corners, no unsightly seams, no faux wood vinyl. Instead our simple texture finish was vacuum formed over stout hand-machined MDF cabinets (with internal CNC'd Superbrace) so that no seams of any sort would be visible. Of course they match perfectly that trend-setting PB10-ISD which has been welcomed into more homes than any new SVS subwoofer ever. Keep things simple, elegant and compact don't ladle on un-needed detailing or fussy styling. That's the SVS way.

 

   

    Multiple installation modes

While any speaker can be good looking or compact (not that all are) few give you so many ways to put your speakers in a room. The SBS-01 satellite speaker has rubber foot pads for basic placement on a bookshelf; you can place them on optional stands (which also come with additional rubber pads). There's more than one way to put them up on wall even. Use our optional brackets, with machined threaded inserts already embedded into the cabinet, or our "key-hole" fitting for simple and firm match with a simple one or the other, few offer both, fewer still at this price. The SCS-01 center channel takes things even further. With dual sets of threaded inserts and dual key-hole hardware, we went even more over the top with a no-cost optional TILT-Base which allows you to set your speaker on a TV, or on a stand under your TV, you have up or down adjustment of 10 degrees to keep your ears in the middle of the action.

 

    Audiophile-grade crossover

And there are crossovers. Well , believe it or not, some cheap speakers out there have NO crossover. In our view, if the woofers and tweeters of a fine audio speaker are it's heart... the crossover an OEM designs is the brain. It determines how well all components "mesh" with each other. The crossover, if it's done right, will maintain flat frequency response and can handle the power so readily available on today's receiver/amp market. It will do all this without adding coloration or artifacts along the way. Part art, part science. Always, if done right, a tough task to perfect. Few if any speakers in this price range have audiophile grade crossovers with so much sweat expended on them as the SBS-01 and SCS-01 (each with their own designs). Custom capacitors, massive air-core conductors, top grade printed circuit boards (even the substrate for the board itself was upgraded over the standard fare), carefully constructed to be resonance-free when new and stay that way. All mounted safe and secure to the cabinet, our two way crossover is another example of where "good enough" .... wasn't.

 

    Frequency response charts

Like our legendary subwoofers, our speakers are "linear" in their frequency response, with similarly spectacular results. A glance at the below chart shows this clearly. Taken on-axis (where you sit in the normal sound "fan" of a speaker) the sort of "flat" response you see below is evidence we took great pains to make sure you hear what the sound engineer intended. Nothing more, nothing less. They are neither "bright" (with an exaggerated high frequency emphasis as some speakers can have), nor are they "laid back" or "warm" (which tends to be the exact opposite, with less high frequency extension).

 

Instead we believe the SBS-01 (above) and it's matching center channel sister the SCS-01 (below) are "just right". They'll render your sound with just the sort of balance and accuracy as is needed to lend a natural and non-fatiguing sound to your favorite music and movies... even if you are pressing them to their limits of playback power.

 

 

    Specifications

Model Name

SBS-01

SCS-01

                                              

                                    

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                      

    Package Upgrades

Avia/SPL Meter                                                       

  Get both the critical tools any music and HT system must have                     

Better Cable

 Subwoofer amp interconnects for all our subwoofers

Speaker Stands

Simple, elegant the perfect complement to the SBS-01 speaker packages

Wall Brackets

World's most stout and stylish wall brackets for our stout and stylish speakers

    

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SBS-01 SPEAKER SYSTEM