SVS has announced that its Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speakers and Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase have achieved Roon Tested certification through Roon Labs, adding another way for owners to browse, organize, and listen to their music.
What is Roon Tested?
Being Roon Tested means that Roon immediately discovers the SVS Prime Wireless Pro products and are ready for bit-perfect audio as delivered from Roon. Together, Roon and SVS deliver the power, flexibility, and performance of networked audio, with the easiest setup and highest reliability available.
Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable digital magazine. Roon is also a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform and offers bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel support, and signal path display.
Related: Roon Me for Life: Transforming Your Digital Music Listening Experience
“SVS Prime Wireless Pro products put sound quality above all else, but there’s no question the user experience with wireless audio products is vitally important to audiophiles and music fans, especially those who have vast music collections,” said Gary Yacoubian, SVS President. “Achieving Roon Tested certification is further validation that Prime Wireless Pro delivers a perfect marriage of immersive sound, versatile connectivity, and now, an enhanced user experience.”
SVS Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speaker Pair
Consisting of a stereo pair of speakers, each driver in the SVS Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speaker Pair ($899 at svsound.com) receives 50 watts from a robust 200-watt (50 watts x 4) amplifier. An active digital crossover controls discrete bi-amplification to the 1” aluminum dome tweeters and 5.25” mid-bass drivers, ensuring pristine playback through the frequency spectrum with deep bass, and massive dynamic impact. This results in a much bigger sounding speaker than the cabinet sizes would suggest.
Go in-depth with our SVS Prime Wireless Pro Review.
SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase
A reimagining of the stereo integrated amplifier for the streaming age, Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase ($699 at svsound.com) brings speakers into the future of immersive sound. It packs a dynamic punch from a 300-watt class D amplifier powerful enough to drive large, full-range towers and more discrete in-wall and satellite speakers with pristine, effortless playback.
The SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase plays flawlessly as the source component powering an audiophile stereo system or 2-channel home theater setup and it can also be paired with multiple other units to power a multi-room or whole-home audio system.
Learn more about the SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase Streaming Amplifier
Shared Features
Both the SVS Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speaker Pair and Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase streaming integrated amplifier share many of the same features.
High-Resolution wireless streaming options include Wi-Fi, Apple Airplay 2 for iPhones and iOS, and Chromecast for Android and other devices. A 24-bit/192kHz DAC allows SVS Prime Wireless Pro products to render the highest resolution playback available from compatible streaming platforms.
Users can also connect directly via Spotify Connect and Bluetooth. Through the DTS Play-Fi app, the system supports the the highest quality playback from streaming other services, including Amazon Music, Qobuz, iHeart, Pandora, YouTube, Sirius XM, Tidal, Pandora, Audible, and others.
For a superior sounding soundbar alternative, users can connect directly to a TV using the HDMI with ARC/eARC connection. Additional inputs include optical (TOSLINK), analog line level, ethernet, 3.5mm AUX, and a subwoofer output. Control options include smartphone, tablet, or PC via the DTS Play-Fi app, the intuitive front panel display, or an IR remote. For hands-free, the products respond to Siri, Alexa, and Hey Google voice commands via supported devices.
The DTS Play-Fi app also lets users access streaming services, radio guides or a home media server from any smartphone or tablet and distribute it across the home to as many as 32 different Play-Fi products in 16 zones.
Via the front panel OLED display, users can see source, artist name, song title, input, volume settings and more. Also on the front panel are six backlit preset buttons for instant, one-touch access to sources, favorite playlists, streaming services, podcasts, and more, just like a car radio preset.
Knobs on the front panel allow users to toggle between sources and adjust display brightness as well as pause playback and set volume. The IR remote controls all the most critical functions and provides direct input buttons for HDMI, Bluetooth, Optical and Line In for easy switching between sources.
Price & Availability
- SVS Prime Wireless Pro Powered Speaker Pair
- SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase
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