Pyle PMX840BT)

Llego bien el paquete, en tiempo y forma peroooo al tercer día de uso pum se apago, ya no funcionó, lo regrese y me devolvieron mi dineroEl ventilador se me hizo muy ruidosoMuy mala calidad de equipo

The Pyle PMX840BT is a full featured PA amp at a great price on Amazon, complete with Bluetooth that allows for wireless music playback from a smart phone. Can be used as a PA amp for live music or karaoke and has inputs for RCA jacks and a 3.5mm headphone type jack to connect an mp3 player, CD, and/or karaoke player. It also plays back music from a USB flash drive or SD card. Vocal mics connect with XLR jacks (recommended), guitars and other instruments with std. 1/4" mono phone plugs. The XLR connections are more sensitive and give more volume to mics than using 1/4" mono phone plugs, so it's worth buying an adapter (or XLR mic cable) if your mic cable isn't an XLR type. The amp has an echo effect that can be added to vocals or any of the channels with individual channel controls for effect amount, bass, treble and volume. There is also a master volume control. About the only thing it doesn't have is a foot switch to instantly remove echo when talking into a mic, although the echo isn't real strong from this amp. It also has an effects loop output/input. There are only two speaker outputs which are 1/4" mono phone plug jacks, so if you want to connect a subwoofer or more speakers it would have to be from your speakers or from a splitter adapter. I use mine with two speakers on stands and a powered subwoofer that connects to one of my speakers and it sounds great! The volume from this is plenty loud for most applications, I recently used mine to provide music for dancing at a wedding reception and was asked to turn the volume down! Do understand that this is a mono amp, not stereo. It converts the stereo signal received from your external music source into a mono signal that is sent to both of your speakers. It's not a big deal for most applications and you will be hard-pressed to find an amp with all these features at this price!

Unit worked well for two months, then we turned it on for another Worship Service and there was no output. Could smell a burnt smell when this happened. Power on the front panel was on, but no output to the speakers. Too late to return it to Amazon. Contacted Pyle Customer Service and they responded via e-mail. Our option with their warranty was to pay for shipping the unit back to Pyle and then shipping back to us after their techs looked at it, and it would take 4-6 weeks. I would have been ok if they shipped us a temporary unit, but that wasn't offered. We couldn't wait 4-6 weeks so we purchased another amp/mixer from another company that is working well. And we purchased the extra insurance so we didn't have the same problem in the future.

Works fine for practice room; fan is a little loud but can’t hear it when the music starts…have not tried it in a gig setting, but decent enough unit for the price

I have a larger Behringer PA that I use for larger gigs and ones where hauling gear isn't a problem. I use it with two 15" Rockstar speakers, and I'm perfectly happy with it, except for the carrying. This Pyle is a nice substitute for smaller gigs or when I just can't carry everything in my small hatchback. I use it with two 12" Rockstar speakers, and I plug everything into it: vocal mic, guitar, and drum machine. The guitar has several effects pedals connected to it, and the vocal mic also has some processors inline, including a harmony effect.The Pyle handles everything and has plenty of volume for the 12" speakers. It would power the 15" ones, but the point is to make the equipment smaller. It is enough and keeps me from getting too loud, which is always a tendency. The sound is clear, it accepts either line inputs or mic inputs, and has very little distortion. There is a bit of background noise, but it is not noticeable when actually playing.One of my pedals didn't quite sound right--a heavy metal pedal--but I seldom use that one, and replaced it with a different pedal--a volume booster--that I use to emphasize solos, so the loss became an advantage. The Pyle is also easy to set up with standard controls: volume, bass, treble, effects level, and a master EQ, volume and effects. The only drawback is that it has echo and delay instead of reverb, but if it's adjusted properly, it emulates reverb pretty well. There is also a set of controls for plugging in external music: CD player, SD card, USB port, though I haven't used any of those yet.Minus one star for echo replacing reverb and some background noise.