Infinity Primus Two-way 6 1/2-Inch Bookshelf/Satellite Speaker (Black, Each)

by Infinity

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 13.8 x 11.5 inches ; 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0045NCB32
• Item model number: Infinity Primus P163
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,998 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Incredible sound. Incredible price.

Prepare to raise your expectations. Experience home entertainment at a new level of clarity and realism. From unobtrusive bookshelf systems to dazzlingly powerful home theaters, there's an Infinity Primus speaker that's right for every purpose and room in your home.

Most other speaker systems in the Primus price range sound as if they are spraying their sound at you - tinny, hollow and reproduced - a copy of a copy. With its MMD transducer technology and seamless component architecture working in unison to eliminate unwanted resonance modes, the Primus P163BK doesn't spray - it immerses, rolling over the listener with warm, rich sound the way live music does. Pair it with any one of our powerful MMD-equipped floorstanding loudspeakers, subwoofers, and center-channel speakers, and the Infinity Primus P163BK will fill any room with dramatic and well-defined sound. This is where Infinity sound begins, and it's well within your reach.

INFINITY PRIMUS P163BK - At a Glance.

Two-way bookshelf/wall-mount loudspeaker high frequency response

6 1/2" (165mm) MMD low-frequency driver

3/4" (19mm) MMD high-frequency driver

Built-in wall mounts

Legendary Infinity engineering - speaker components seamlessly work together as an integrated system

Extremely low resonance enclosures - hear music exactly as it was recorded

Tweeter waveguides improve on-and-off-axis high-frequency response

Precision crossover networks

Patented MMD transducers significantly improve cone performance, providing ideal rigidity and resistance to precision sound

across the entire spectrum

The P163BK's tweeter delivers crystal clear high frequencies.

Music and Movies as they were meant to be heard.

Patented MMD transducer technology improves sonic accuracy

Derived from our patented CMMD technology, the Metal Matrix Diaphragm (MMD) approach continues the Infinity tradition of using advanced materials to improve sonic accuracy. These diaphragms are much stiffer than standard metal ones - by anodizing both sides of an aluminum core, we're able to significantly improve cone performance and outperform cones made of paper, polypropylene or Kevlar material.

The patented MMD material's sandwich design makes the driver incredibly strong and lightweight.
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By virtue of its extreme rigidity and resistance to resonance, the MMD material is far more than just another diaphragm substance. It is an ideal diaphragm material for the ultimate listening experience. Sound propagates at a higher velocity in metals than in materials such as polymers and papers. Sound will travel through MMD material nearly twice as fast as it will through any other cone material - thus, moving unwanted resonances outside the audible range.

Acoustical waveguides deliver wide high-frequency response

Where you sit in a room as you listen to speakers can have just as great an effect on their sound quality as the speakers themselves.

By using an acoustical waveguide, high frequencies have a wide dispersion throughout the room.

To make sure listening to the Primus P163BK is truly a great experience everywhere in the room, they use a proprietary "waveguide" around the tweeter. This waveguide ensures a wide dispersion of the high frequencies throughout the room while keeping them both accurate and natural-sounding. The result is an enveloping, realistic sound experience throughout the entire room, making the P163BK perfect for critical music and movie reproduction.

Low-Resonance enclosures do not change or alter the sound

A great sounding loudspeaker should play just what it's told to without changing or altering the sound. One way that a poorly designed loudspeaker can change the sound is when the enclosure resonates or vibrates. Resonance can change a speaker's overall tonal balance and totally alter the sound of the recording that it plays. To eliminate any enclosure resonance from the P163BK bookshelf speakers, Infinity engineers the enclosure using pinpoint internal bracing that increases rigidity so it does not vibrate or resonate. Bass sounds tight and accurate while the soundstage is smooth and precise. Plus there's the added advantage of a sleek, narrow enclosure that's at home in nearly any room decor.

Superior Infinity engineering delivers sound perfection

Many loudspeaker manufacturers are actually loudspeaker assemblers, buying parts off the shelf from different companies with the goal of assembling them into a final product. While this might help keep costs down, it gives very little guarantee about how the speakers are going to sound. The Infinity Primus P163BK's speaker drivers, baffles, cabinets and waveguides are all designed and engineered by Infinity to work seamlessly together as an integrated system, fitting together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. And since Infinity has engineered each piece for the best possible sound quality, the result is a loudspeaker that we can guarantee will dazzle you no matter what you happen to be listening to.

Infinity - Legendary reputation. Uncompromising craftsmanship and sound.

With the Infinity Primus P163BK, you not only experience the cutting edge in high-performance transducer technology and sound reproduction, you experience the cutting edge from the makers of Infinity products - some of the world's most innovative, high-quality audio equipment. The road to the Infinity Primus series is a road lined with dozens of audio milestones: The Infinity Servo Statik 1a - the world's first powered subwoofer. The EMIT (Electromagnetic Induction Tweeter) device. The revolutionary IRS speaker - the world's first "reference" loudspeaker. The Prelude MTS speaker - the world's first powered tower speaker. Since 1968, innovative Infinity technologies, materials and manufacturing techniques have advanced the science of sound, and have set new standards in loudspeaker technology and performance. Infinity Primus Series speakers benefit from every Infinity innovation that has come before. This is where Infinity sound begins, and it's well within your reach.

What's in the Box

One Infinity P163BK bookshelf speaker

Spec Sheet

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Complete your Infinity Primus Home Theater

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Infinity PC251BK

Complete your home theater system with a center speaker that delivers the goods. The PC251BK center speaker reproduces all the important details from your music and movies while blending seamlessly with other Infinity Primus loudspeakers.

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Infinity PC351BK

Take your movie dialog to the highest level by upgrading to the the flagship PC351BK center channel speaker.

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Infinity PS38BK

Give your theater the bass it deserves without taking up bunch of room with the powerful PS38BK powered subwoofer.

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Infinity PS410BK

When you want a bit more bass than the PS38BK, step up to the larger 10" PS410BK powered subwoofer.

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When you really want to rattle your walls with the most explosive home theater possible, then the PS312BK powered subwoofer is for you.

Product Description

Infinity Primus Two-way 6 1/2" Bookshelf/ Satellite speaker (Each) Black

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, November 6, 2011

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This review is from: Infinity Primus Two-way 6 1/2-Inch Bookshelf/Satellite Speaker (Black, Each) (Electronics)

I purchased a set of these speakers about a year ago to supplement my Cambridge Soundworks Movie Works surround speakers. I moved my old front speakers to the 7.1 top fronts and used the Infinity Primus as my new fronts. So far, I have been very impressed. The quality of sound has been superb. Since these are part of my existing system, I've already got a nice powered sub that takes care of the lows but these seem to do a great job through the whole octave range.

I purchased the 6-1/2" but be aware that they are large and heavy and will take up a lot of real estate for front speakers - especially if you're used to satellite style speakers. They look very nice though - the front covers are nicely styled and the speakers really look nice with or without the screens.

Compared to other fronts I've owned:

* Bose 201's - Primus sound is superior in my opinion (muuch better range). Size and style of the Bose slightly superior.
* Cambridge Soundworks MovieWorks 5.1 - Here again, Primus sound is cleaner and has better range. 3 x smaller than the Primus so there is a space sacrifice when owning this set.

Overall, the build quality is great and the sound is great too. I'd highly recommend these for the price.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Infinity Primus bookshelf speakers, November 24, 2011

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This review is from: Infinity Primus Two-way 6 1/2-Inch Bookshelf/Satellite Speaker (Black, Each) (Electronics)

I bought a pair of the Primus 2 way 6 1/2" bookshelves to augment a previous generation Primus tower pair. They sound fantastic. Match up great with the other Primus speakers in the room. Quality construction. Very heavy for its size. I bought them as surround speakers, but for a small stereo setup they'd be fine as stand alones.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Value for the price, October 14, 2011

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This review is from: Infinity Primus Two-way 6 1/2-Inch Bookshelf/Satellite Speaker (Black, Each) (Electronics)

These speakers sound great for their price range. They are not high end speakers but then again they don't cost what high end speakers do. I use these for the front speakers of my 7.1 surround sound setup. They do quite well. They are not overly tinny with highs and do have good frequency response overall. I would use them for general purpose stereo speakers as well, as long as the application didn't require a lot of volume in a large room. Other than that, I highly recommend them. The price on Amazon was vastly cheaper than on a lot of other sites at the time of my purchase, about $85 VS $130. Great speakers.