SV Subwoofers has announced details of their first line of non-subwoofer speakers (see SVS News). The line contains a bookshelf speaker (SBS-01 - $210/pair pre-order, $225/pair normally) and a center channel (SCS-01 - no individual pricing given) with 5.0, 5.1 and 7.1 package pricing that puts a 5.1 system at $899 pre-order, $999 normally). While only package pricing with a PB-10ISD is given, I would expect that one could get a package price with any of the SVS subs.
SBS-01 bookshelf speaker:
This product release pits SVS against Aperion Audio’s 422 based systems, Ascend Acoustics’ HTM-200/CBM-170 based systems, Home Theater Direct’s Level Three system, and AV123’s upcoming XLS based system (while the XLS will be released around the same type as SVS’s offering, the matching center channel will lag behind). The sub $1,000 5.1 system market gets another competitor and this one will certainly stir up the issue of which offering brings the best sub to the game.
Ron Stimpson has hinted that the future will bring more, higher-end speakers from SVS. It should be interesting to see where the lines progress and to hear them.
