SVS Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speakers Review | Best Soundbar Alternative
While soundbars have stepped up huge in recent years, they still can’t scratch an itch felt by many music-listening lovers. The SVS Prime Wireless Pro powered bookshelf speakers promise awesome home entertainment as well as superior stereo music listening. Armed with an HDMI eARC port, multiple wireless listening options, and 200 watts of potent power, are the SVS Prime Wireless Pro the best wireless speakers you can buy? We compare them to the Klipsch The Fives, AudioEngine A5+, and the KEF LS50 Wireless II along the way. Come find out whether this is the only speaker system you need to buy.
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00:00 Intro
02:37 Design
03:27 Connections/Ports
03:41 Supported Audio
04:24 Interface/Controls
05:09 Color/Finish
05:22 Setup
06:19 HHOGene GPods
07:31 Sound Quality
10:37 SVS 3000 Subwoofer
11:40 Comparisons to other speakers systems
12:22 Final Take
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All the talking and no sound test? Lame content.
the front speaker controls should just be a separate box that you could place underneath a speaker OR flip around and face it backwards (for aesthetics) OR place someplace else like at the center, in a cabinet, etc. Basically, like a tiny AVR.
Adding this to my darn collection of Sonos + Anthony galo + a/d/s old towers my dad left me. Great i need help, cause i been wasting too much on speakers and headphones.
No thanks I like soundbar better ,sounds great and looks better then the old style speakers in this video, what next big tube tvs from the past too.
for use for TV speakers for movies and sports and everyday TV which would you recommend of the following and why ? thx
Edifier S2000MKiii
Edifier S3000Pro
Edifier R2850DB + Sub
Klipsch THE FIVES + Sub
SVS Prime Wireless Pro
Fluance powered towers Ai81’s + Sub
order of which you would choose please…thank you in advance…cheers from Canada
The whole point of a soundbar is the reduced height so it can sit in front of or on top of your TV. They are also wall mount capable. These are useless in this manner. Most of us wall mount our TVs and have for years. Even if I didn’t, I have never had a TV stand big enough for a 55" or bigger TV and a bookshelf speaker on each side. That’s a huge waste of space.
I had the Onkyo HT-S9800THX. It was rather nice HTIB for the price I paid for.
I like the display ALOT
Is the HDMI input eARC or ARC? The host commented it was the superior eARC, but the speaker is labeled ARC.
Glad to see SVS is still going strong. I have an SB13-ultra that’s going on 10 years now and still hitting hard.
I agree with you re not liking the display and controls on the front, it makes the right speaker look cluttered and it bugs me quite a bit that the left and right speakers look different! For that reason I also agree with your regrets about not going for black. At least in black the display and controls wouldn’t be quite as obvious.
Maybe SVS could actually fix this by offering an alternative right speaker grill as an optional accessory that obviously would have the same fixing points as the standard one but the grill frame and fabric would go all the way down to the bottom of the cabinet instead of stopping just above the display. As long as the knobs on the rotary buttons can be pulled off then it should hide the display and controls at the bottom completely and make them look like "normal" speakers.
Wireless systems are a joke as they will ALWAYS have a delay compared to their wired counterparts.
Sound bars are great to add some great sound fidelity, but you can absolutely NOT compare it to an actual Dolby Atmos Surround Sound.
it just looks too outstanding for my taste
I think I’m happy with my Genelec G2 + F1 setup for computer.
It would be nice if they ever came out with a center channel for this.
Meh, not too long ago you were really impressed with a mere Klipsch setup. Maybe you need to visit some proper home theatre setups with JTR, Triad, Focal with Trinov processor, so that you can get an idea of reference level audio. I love your TV reviews but please don’t judge speakers like soundbars.
Compare those against 2x Sonos Fives please. Please make that happen.. 🙂
Anything powered under $200 or even $150 that’s good for dialog and tv shows? I just don’t want that Roku streambar that everyone seems to be pushing.
You gotta try the KEF LS 60 wireless speakers as well!
Give their name more
Hi Caleb, I know you mentioned LS50 in your video but do you think the LSXII is a better alternative to this SVS Prime?
Thanks for a thorough review Caleb. This looks like just what I need for my living room where I have a small area for speakers so this would fit just right. While its nice to have the Play-Fi streaming option, with the HDMI input I can also use the Tidal app on my Samsung TV so we can keep using the TV remove for tv, movies, YouTube and Tidal music. With that kind of convenience, my wife will buy into this,
Wonder how these would compare to the Edifier S3000 pro’s which are much cheaper.
listening to someone telling how good these speakers sound is like listening to someone telling how good this wine is i never tasted before. i now know how good you find it, but it may be awfull for me
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Wondering if it’s worth the upgrade from the Fives
I hate that white sound bars are so rare. I get black for a man cave, but if it’s a man cave, get real speakers. For a more typical living room, white is far more appropriate and wife-friendly.
I can’t take this guy seriously. lol get someone else
A lot of audiophile channels have popped up recently, some of them are really good too. But Caleb here is showing why heis the king of audio/video reviews. Take lessons people. Prefect reviews. Congrats on 1 mil subs, such a good channel.
Hi. I currently have a Samsung q90r 7.1.4 Atmos soundbar. I wanted to simplify my living room and started looking at a 2.1 setup like this. I realize I’m going to give up having rear channels and overhead effects but what will I gain in sound quality? Can a 2.1 setup for home theater still deliver for movies and games? With no center channel how is the vocal clarity in movies with the SVS? Thank you so much!
Any chance of comparing the new the sevens to these?
Looking similar to Tannoy Mercurys …
I would have liked it better if you had played tracks from different genres and let us judge the output. After all it’s a audio device review.😀
With these be good as studio monitor speakers?
Nope, creeping up on a $1k for 2 speakers. You could buy a 5.1 Dolby system that murders this thing.
Damn , not available in Australia
I can’t decide between these and the HECATE Edifier G5000.
Which would you choose?
Way overpriced wireless bookshelf as a small subwoofer
These are meant for nearfield listening… don’t recommend these for home entertainment please
so would you say these would be good for TV….movies / everyday TV / sports etc….with or with out a sub ? thx cheers
theyre super ugly …. there are so many alternatives
Omg and why haven’t we thought of this before???
😂 “step aside sound bars “ yea sure maybe if you’re in your 20’s in a studio. Tell my clients they can’t use a soundbar for their tv above the fireplace. 😂🤣
Let’s start with a big ?? for anyone that posits that ANY DAC is lossless. Lossless does not exist in the analog to digital world. There is still waveform between 192 bit samples. Period. End of Story. This is why true audiophiles use vinyl. You also don’t get a real 50 watt amplifier in a box that size. A REAL amp requires a huge transformer wound with COPPER, otherwise a Marshal would be the size of an MP3 player. BTW, I had killer home theater before most people had even heard the term, including Dolby Surround from my Yamaha Natural Surround (best DAC, ever, bar none, then or now) connected to a CAV Laser Disk. Yeah, technology that existed before Bozo in the video was born.
Bottom line it: For engines, there is no replacement for displacement. For speakers, there is no replacement for (wait for it) SPEAKERS. Quality being equal, a 12" woofer, a couple 5" mid range and a separate tweeter in a large, free standing unit will ALWAYS outshine any tiny little puke speaker. Period. Sound is moving air, want more and better sound, move more air. You move more air with bigger speakers.
Wireless anything (Bluetooth, WiFi, IR) all introduce LAG. Even the speed of light is finite and the need to decode and translate wireless technology all introduces phase issues. Its physics. Not to mention all that free roaming EM radiation plays merry hell with your health. (looked at the exponential increase in brain cancer since the advent of cell phones?) Moving a speaker cone requires energy and the BEST conductor you can reasonably use is THICK COPPER cable. HDMI is too thin to conduct significant amounts of power without cross talk, the insulation is too thin, in too compact a form factor and with too little actual copper. And, btw, tubes ROCK, transistors suck and facts are facts.
You’re absolutely right on the face controls, they make sense on a studio monitor but not for a living room setup. I would’ve put the display on the top for bettter ergonomics, you’re most likey to be stood above the speaker when you make adjustments in that scenario and obviously the asthetics would have been better too
You said the sub is going to 35hz. But later you said you need a sub for movies? I understand that you are getting paid for this, but be consistent with the script. 35hz is very low and as you getting older you are starting to hear less and less from lows and highs. If you want good, natural sounding experience just buy studio monitors.
Need help finding a sound bar with a very low profile for LG CX OLED. Has to be 50mm max, but preferably lower. Anyone have a suggestion?
3 hours with the lights is terrible.
I’m using Polk es35 center channel speaker as my right and left channel. Slim, shadow, with wide bandwidth. Two jbl 550p 10" subwoofers. Powered by smsl vmv a2. I want to replace my 550p with 3000 micros.