125 models
Church AV Equipment Spec Sheets
Published specifications for every major console, loudspeaker, amplifier, wireless system, camera, projector and screen on this site, each with its current price, what it suits in a church, and the closest alternatives at a similar price.
Main loudspeakers
- QSC KC12 K.2 Column $1,999.99 Long narrow sanctuaries and historic buildings where nothing may be attached to the structure
- RCF NX 912-A $1,449.00 A flagship room, or a church that buys once every fifteen years
- JBL PRX915 $1,099.00 Full-band contemporary worship in a large room
- JBL PRX912 $999.00 A permanent flown install in a 300 to 600 seat room
- Yamaha DXR12mkII $909.99 Rooms where speech intelligibility at high level is the whole problem
- QSC K12.2 $899.99 A 150 to 400 seat sanctuary on stands or flown, for almost any service style
- RCF ART 912-A $899.00 Vocal-led worship where the lead voice must sit above the band
- Electro-Voice ELX200-12P $811.80 A permanent wall or ceiling mounted install in a mid-size room
- QSC K10.2 $799.99 Wide fan-shaped rooms and balcony fills where coverage matters more than low end
- QSC K8.2 $749.99 Small chapels, front fills for the first two rows, and side fills
- QSC CP12 $649.99 Portable church plants and school or rented venues
- Electro-Voice ZLX-15P G2 $649.00 Small to mid-size rooms with a band and no subwoofer budget
- JBL PROFESSIONAL EON715 $559.99 Contemporary worship in a mid-size room that has no budget line for subwoofers yet
- QSC CP8 $549.99 Overflow rooms, nurseries, foyers and portable speech systems
- JBL EON712 $549.00 Wide rooms of moderate depth, and anywhere the front rows are currently being missed
- Electro-Voice ZLX-12P G2 $549.00 The first real upgrade from consumer or unbranded PA speakers
- Electro-Voice ZLX-12 G2 $449.00 Installed systems where every amplifier should live in one lockable rack
- Mackie Thump215 $414.95 A church plant with no money that needs to be heard this Sunday
- YAMAHA DBR12 $390.99 Volunteer-run systems where the speaker should not be the variable
- JBL IRX108BT $385.00 Youth rooms, classrooms, outdoor services and portable speech reinforcement
- Behringer Eurolive B112D $299.00 Overflow rooms, fellowship halls and outreach events
Digital mixing consoles
- Allen & Heath SQ-6 $4,999.00 A large room where the whole band needs to be reachable without paging through layers
- Allen & Heath SQ-5 $3,999.00 A 500 seat and up sanctuary with a paid or highly skilled operator, or a multi-campus standard
- Behringer WING $3,499.00 Large multi-campus rooms and anywhere the input list has outgrown 32 mono channels
- Behringer WING Compact $2,799.00 Large-room capability in a booth built for a smaller desk
- MIDAS M32 LIVE $2,499.00 Churches that want the X32 workflow with a longer service life and better front end
- Behringer X32 $1,999.00 A 250 to 800 seat room with a band, where volunteers rotate weekly and scene recall saves the service
- Behringer X32 Producer $1,499.00 A tight booth that still needs real faders in front of the operator
- MIDAS M32C $1,299.00 Installed systems built around a stage box, where the rack lives in a closet
- Allen & Heath CQ-18T $1,199.99 A 150 to 400 seat room that wants digital recall without depending on a tablet
- PreSonus StudioLive III 24R $1,069.00 A full band input list that will not fit in sixteen channels
- Allen & Heath CQ-20B $999.99 Installed systems where nobody should be able to reach the knobs
- Allen & Heath Qu-SB $999.99 A church that wants Allen and Heath sound quality at a rack-mixer price
- Behringer X32 Rack $979.99 Churches with no booth space, or a mixer who wants to walk the room while setting the mix
- PreSonus StudioLive III 16R $949.99 Churches that want to record every service in multitrack for the podcast or for training volunteers
- Allen & Heath CQ-12T $899.99 Small sanctuaries and portable church plants that set up and tear down weekly
- MIDAS MR12 $589.00 A small room where the few channels there are need to sound right
- Behringer XR18 $509.00 A church plant or a 100 to 250 seat room where the mixer can stand in the congregation
- Behringer XR16 $429.00 Speech-led services with a piano and two or three microphones
- Soundcraft Ui12 $399.00 Volunteer teams with mixed devices and nobody to manage app versions
- Behringer XR12 $369.00 A chapel, a portable setup or an overflow room with a handful of inputs
Wireless microphone systems
- Shure SLXD24D/SM58 $1,649.00 Dense wireless systems where rack space and coordination time both matter
- Shure SLXD24/SM58 $769.00 Churches running more than about six wireless channels at once
- Sennheiser EW 100 G4-835-S $749.00 Churches in crowded RF environments, or near a broadcast tower
- Sennheiser EW-D ME2 Set $737.40 A lapel channel that has to work every week without anyone checking it
- Sennheiser EW-D 835-S $699.00 A system nobody has time to teach: it is very hard to set up badly
- Audio-Technica ATW-3212/C710 $699.00 A skilled lead vocalist in a room with in-ear monitoring rather than wedges
- Shure BLX188/CVL $689.00 Two speaking positions, or a pastor plus a guaranteed spare
- Sennheiser EW-D ME3 Set $669.86 The hardest rooms: high ceilings, hard surfaces and a wireless preaching microphone
- Shure GLXD24+/SM58 $659.00 Small rooms with no volunteer willing to coordinate UHF frequencies
- Sennheiser XSW 1-825 Dual $649.00 A second handheld for worship vocals or the announcements slot
- Shure BLX24R/B58 $539.00 A permanent rack install where the lead vocal fights the wedges
- Audio-Technica ATW-1101/H $399.95 A small building where the Wi-Fi plan is under your control
- Audio-Technica ATW-1101/L $399.95 A first lapel microphone in a small sanctuary
- Shure BLX24/SM58 $389.00 Worship vocals and a roaming handheld in a 100 to 500 seat room
- Shure BLX14/P31 $379.00 Preaching, especially in a live room or where the lapel keeps feeding back
- Shure BLX14/CVL $359.00 A preacher who wants nothing visible on the face
- Audio-Technica ATW-1102 System 10 $349.95 Churches that want nothing to do with the 600 MHz repack
- Shure BLX24/PG58 $329.00 A first wireless handheld for announcements and a roaming speaker
- Sennheiser XSW 1-825 $329.00 A small church that wants Sennheiser reliability without the G4 price
Ceiling and install loudspeakers
- Bose DesignMax DM5C $821.00 A ceiling system that has to carry music, not just the spoken word
- JBL Control 47HC $794.00 Ceilings above about sixteen feet, where a 90 degree speaker covers too much and too thinly
- JBL Control 47LP $590.00 Suspended ceiling installs at normal ceiling heights
- JBL C65P/T $550.00 Exposed structure ceilings, warehouses and modern open-plan auditoriums
- JBL Control 416C/T $494.00 A distributed ceiling system in a low or flat-ceilinged room
- JBL Control 25-1 $457.98 Under-balcony fills, foyers, cry rooms and side aisles
- Bose DesignMax DM2C-LP $389.00 Retrofits where there is no room above the ceiling tile
- Atlas Sound FAP62T $350.95 A straightforward 70V distributed system with no surprises at install time
- JBL Control 24CT $350.00 Paging and overflow audio in ancillary spaces
Power amplifiers
- Crown CDi 1000 $1,487.52 Any 70V ceiling or distributed system
- Crown CDi 2000 $1,125.00 Large distributed systems, or a 70V line shared with several ancillary rooms
- Crown XLS 2502 $843.98 Passive subwoofers, or mains in a 500 seat and up sanctuary
- Crown XLS 2002 $629.96 Larger passive mains, or one channel to the mains and one to a sub
- Crown XLS 1502 $579.99 A 150 to 400 seat room with passive mains and no separate DSP
- Behringer NX6000D $519.00 Driving passive subwoofers in a large contemporary room
- Crown XLS 1002 $439.88 A pair of passive mains in a room up to about 150 seats
- Behringer NX3000D $339.00 A passive main and subwoofer system with no separate loudspeaker processor
- Behringer NX1000 $259.00 A tight budget, or a backup amplifier that lives on the shelf
Analog mixing consoles
- Soundcraft Signature Plus 16 $899.00 A blended service with a piano, a couple of instruments and several microphones
- Soundcraft Signature Plus 12 $807.94 Rooms where the preaching microphone fights the acoustics every week
- YAMAHA MG20 $657.89 Traditional services where the input list never changes and recall is not needed
- YAMAHA MG12XU $425.00 Churches that want a board a new volunteer can read in one glance
- Mackie ProFX12v3 $379.99 A first sound system, or a second board for the youth room
- YAMAHA MG10XU $290.00 A chapel, a fellowship hall or a portable setup with four or fewer microphones
In-ear monitor systems
- Sennheiser ew IEM G4-Twin $1,649.00 Two musicians on one mix in an already crowded RF plan
- Shure PSM300 Twin Pack $1,539.00 Two backing vocalists who share a mix
- Sennheiser ew IEM G4-A1 $1,249.00 Bands large enough that in-ear channels compete with the microphones for spectrum
- Shure PSM300 P3TRA215CL $989.00 A musician who needs real isolation, especially the drummer
- Shure PSM300 P3TR112GR $799.00 The first in-ear channel, usually the worship leader
- Galaxy AS-1400 $449.99 Adding in-ear channels cheaply for musicians who own their own earphones
Subwoofers
- QSC KS118 $2,199.99 Contemporary worship in a large room, especially where the platform booms
- JBL PRX918XLF $1,499.00 Rooms with a difficult low-frequency response that needs correcting at the source
- QSC KS112 $1,299.99 Mid-size rooms with no floor space to spare
- Electro-Voice ELX200-18SP $1,099.00 The first subwoofer a growing contemporary church buys
- Yamaha DXS12 MKII $969.99 Portable setups that want low end without a two-person lift
- JBL JRX218S $680.00 Rack-amplified systems with an unused amplifier channel
Projection screens and mounts
- Elite Screens Spectrum 150 in. Motorized $766.95 A large screen that must retract for weddings, funerals and concerts
- Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 150 in. $575.00 A mid-size sanctuary where the back row is 35 to 40 feet out
- Elite Screens Manual Series 150 in. $379.84 A large image in a shared room, if someone strong is on the rota
- Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 120 in. $352.55 A permanent screen position in a small to mid-size room
- Elite Screens Manual Series 120 in. $292.56 Multi-use rooms, fellowship halls and rented spaces
Digital stage boxes
- MIDAS DL32 $1,349.00 An M32 or X32 system where the front end should outlast the console
- Behringer S32 $669.99 A large platform where the whole input list and every monitor send originate on stage
- Behringer S16 $520.00 Any X32 or M32 system where the booth is more than about thirty feet from the platform
- Behringer SD16 $509.00 Systems that run both a digital snake and personal in-ear mixers
Cameras
- PTZOptics Move 4K 30x $2,699.00 Large sanctuaries where the camera position is a long way from the platform
- PTZOptics Move 4K 20x $2,231.00 A mid-size to large room with a network already in place
- PTZOptics Move 4K 12x $1,999.00 A wide shot from close in, where a long lens cannot get the whole platform
- PTZOptics Move SE 20x $1,281.55 The standard church livestream camera, on a balcony rail or a side wall
Gooseneck, hanging and headworn microphones
Stage monitors
Loudspeaker processing
Capture cards and audio interfaces
- Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 4th Gen $569.99 Churches producing a polished archive or podcast from the Sunday recording
- Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 4th Gen $299.99 A stream that needs its own mix rather than a copy of the house mix
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen $224.99 Fixing the single most common livestream complaint: bad audio