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 Under $2,500 Long narrow sanctuaries and historic buildings where nothing may be attached to the structure
- RCF NX 912-A Under $2,500 A flagship room, or a church that buys once every fifteen years
- JBL PRX915 Under $2,500 Full-band contemporary worship in a large room
- JBL PRX912 Under $1,000 A permanent flown install in a 300 to 600 seat room
- Yamaha DXR12mkII Under $1,000 Rooms where speech intelligibility at high level is the whole problem
- QSC K12.2 Under $1,000 A 150 to 400 seat sanctuary on stands or flown, for almost any service style
- RCF ART 912-A Under $1,000 Vocal-led worship where the lead voice must sit above the band
- Electro-Voice ELX200-12P Under $1,000 A permanent wall or ceiling mounted install in a mid-size room
- QSC K10.2 Under $1,000 Wide fan-shaped rooms and balcony fills where coverage matters more than low end
- QSC K8.2 Under $1,000 Small chapels, front fills for the first two rows, and side fills
- QSC CP12 Under $1,000 Portable church plants and school or rented venues
- Electro-Voice ZLX-15P G2 Under $1,000 Small to mid-size rooms with a band and no subwoofer budget
- QSC CP8 Under $1,000 Overflow rooms, nurseries, foyers and portable speech systems
- JBL PROFESSIONAL EON715 Under $1,000 Contemporary worship in a mid-size room that has no budget line for subwoofers yet
- JBL EON712 Under $1,000 Wide rooms of moderate depth, and anywhere the front rows are currently being missed
- Electro-Voice ZLX-12P G2 Under $1,000 The first real upgrade from consumer or unbranded PA speakers
- Electro-Voice ZLX-12 G2 Under $500 Installed systems where every amplifier should live in one lockable rack
- Mackie Thump215 Under $500 A church plant with no money that needs to be heard this Sunday
- JBL IRX108BT Under $500 Youth rooms, classrooms, outdoor services and portable speech reinforcement
- YAMAHA DBR12 Under $500 Volunteer-run systems where the speaker should not be the variable
- Behringer Eurolive B112D Under $500 Overflow rooms, fellowship halls and outreach events
Digital mixing consoles
- Allen & Heath SQ-6 Under $5,000 A large room where the whole band needs to be reachable without paging through layers
- Allen & Heath SQ-5 Under $5,000 A 500 seat and up sanctuary with a paid or highly skilled operator, or a multi-campus standard
- Behringer WING Under $5,000 Large multi-campus rooms and anywhere the input list has outgrown 32 mono channels
- Behringer WING Compact Under $5,000 Large-room capability in a booth built for a smaller desk
- MIDAS M32 LIVE Under $2,500 Churches that want the X32 workflow with a longer service life and better front end
- Behringer X32 Under $2,500 A 250 to 800 seat room with a band, where volunteers rotate weekly and scene recall saves the service
- Behringer X32 Producer Under $2,500 A tight booth that still needs real faders in front of the operator
- MIDAS M32C Under $2,500 Installed systems built around a stage box, where the rack lives in a closet
- Allen & Heath CQ-18T Under $2,500 A 150 to 400 seat room that wants digital recall without depending on a tablet
- PreSonus StudioLive III 24R Under $2,500 A full band input list that will not fit in sixteen channels
- Allen & Heath CQ-20B Under $1,000 Installed systems where nobody should be able to reach the knobs
- Allen & Heath Qu-SB Under $1,000 A church that wants Allen and Heath sound quality at a rack-mixer price
- Behringer X32 Rack Under $1,000 Churches with no booth space, or a mixer who wants to walk the room while setting the mix
- PreSonus StudioLive III 16R Under $1,000 Churches that want to record every service in multitrack for the podcast or for training volunteers
- Allen & Heath CQ-12T Under $1,000 Small sanctuaries and portable church plants that set up and tear down weekly
- MIDAS MR12 Under $1,000 A small room where the few channels there are need to sound right
- Behringer XR18 Under $1,000 A church plant or a 100 to 250 seat room where the mixer can stand in the congregation
- Behringer XR16 Under $500 Speech-led services with a piano and two or three microphones
- Soundcraft Ui12 Under $500 Volunteer teams with mixed devices and nobody to manage app versions
- Behringer XR12 Under $500 A chapel, a portable setup or an overflow room with a handful of inputs
Wireless microphone systems
- Shure SLXD24D/SM58 Under $2,500 Dense wireless systems where rack space and coordination time both matter
- Shure SLXD24/SM58 Under $1,000 Churches running more than about six wireless channels at once
- Sennheiser EW 100 G4-835-S Under $1,000 Churches in crowded RF environments, or near a broadcast tower
- Sennheiser EW-D 835-S Under $1,000 A system nobody has time to teach: it is very hard to set up badly
- Sennheiser EW-D ME2 Set Under $1,000 A lapel channel that has to work every week without anyone checking it
- Audio-Technica ATW-3212/C710 Under $1,000 A skilled lead vocalist in a room with in-ear monitoring rather than wedges
- Shure BLX188/CVL Under $1,000 Two speaking positions, or a pastor plus a guaranteed spare
- Sennheiser EW-D ME3 Set Under $1,000 The hardest rooms: high ceilings, hard surfaces and a wireless preaching microphone
- Shure GLXD24+/SM58 Under $1,000 Small rooms with no volunteer willing to coordinate UHF frequencies
- Sennheiser XSW 1-825 Dual Under $1,000 A second handheld for worship vocals or the announcements slot
- Shure BLX24R/B58 Under $1,000 A permanent rack install where the lead vocal fights the wedges
- Audio-Technica ATW-1101/H Under $500 A small building where the Wi-Fi plan is under your control
- Audio-Technica ATW-1101/L Under $500 A first lapel microphone in a small sanctuary
- Shure BLX24/SM58 Under $500 Worship vocals and a roaming handheld in a 100 to 500 seat room
- Shure BLX14/P31 Under $500 Preaching, especially in a live room or where the lapel keeps feeding back
- Shure BLX14/CVL Under $500 A preacher who wants nothing visible on the face
- Audio-Technica ATW-1102 System 10 Under $500 Churches that want nothing to do with the 600 MHz repack
- Shure BLX24/PG58 Under $500 A first wireless handheld for announcements and a roaming speaker
- Sennheiser XSW 1-825 Under $500 A small church that wants Sennheiser reliability without the G4 price
Ceiling and install loudspeakers
- Bose DesignMax DM5C Under $1,000 A ceiling system that has to carry music, not just the spoken word
- JBL Control 47HC Under $1,000 Ceilings above about sixteen feet, where a 90 degree speaker covers too much and too thinly
- JBL Control 47LP Under $1,000 Suspended ceiling installs at normal ceiling heights
- JBL C65P/T Under $1,000 Exposed structure ceilings, warehouses and modern open-plan auditoriums
- JBL Control 416C/T Under $500 A distributed ceiling system in a low or flat-ceilinged room
- JBL Control 25-1 Under $500 Under-balcony fills, foyers, cry rooms and side aisles
- Bose DesignMax DM2C-LP Under $500 Retrofits where there is no room above the ceiling tile
- Atlas Sound FAP62T Under $500 A straightforward 70V distributed system with no surprises at install time
- JBL Control 24CT Under $500 Paging and overflow audio in ancillary spaces
Power amplifiers
- Crown CDi 2000 Under $2,500 Large distributed systems, or a 70V line shared with several ancillary rooms
- Crown CDi 1000 Under $1,000 Any 70V ceiling or distributed system
- Crown XLS 2502 Under $1,000 Passive subwoofers, or mains in a 500 seat and up sanctuary
- Crown XLS 2002 Under $1,000 Larger passive mains, or one channel to the mains and one to a sub
- Crown XLS 1502 Under $1,000 A 150 to 400 seat room with passive mains and no separate DSP
- Behringer NX6000D Under $1,000 Driving passive subwoofers in a large contemporary room
- Crown XLS 1002 Under $1,000 A pair of passive mains in a room up to about 150 seats
- Behringer NX3000D Under $500 A passive main and subwoofer system with no separate loudspeaker processor
- Behringer NX1000 Under $500 A tight budget, or a backup amplifier that lives on the shelf
Analog mixing consoles
- Soundcraft Signature Plus 16 Under $1,000 A blended service with a piano, a couple of instruments and several microphones
- Soundcraft Signature Plus 12 Under $1,000 Rooms where the preaching microphone fights the acoustics every week
- YAMAHA MG20 Under $1,000 Traditional services where the input list never changes and recall is not needed
- YAMAHA MG12XU Under $500 Churches that want a board a new volunteer can read in one glance
- Mackie ProFX12v3 Under $500 A first sound system, or a second board for the youth room
- YAMAHA MG10XU Under $500 A chapel, a fellowship hall or a portable setup with four or fewer microphones
In-ear monitor systems
- Sennheiser ew IEM G4-Twin Under $2,500 Two musicians on one mix in an already crowded RF plan
- Shure PSM300 Twin Pack Under $2,500 Two backing vocalists who share a mix
- Sennheiser ew IEM G4-A1 Under $2,500 Bands large enough that in-ear channels compete with the microphones for spectrum
- Shure PSM300 P3TRA215CL Under $1,000 A musician who needs real isolation, especially the drummer
- Shure PSM300 P3TR112GR Under $1,000 The first in-ear channel, usually the worship leader
- Galaxy AS-1400 Under $500 Adding in-ear channels cheaply for musicians who own their own earphones
Subwoofers
- QSC KS118 Under $2,500 Contemporary worship in a large room, especially where the platform booms
- JBL PRX918XLF Under $2,500 Rooms with a difficult low-frequency response that needs correcting at the source
- QSC KS112 Under $2,500 Mid-size rooms with no floor space to spare
- Electro-Voice ELX200-18SP Under $2,500 The first subwoofer a growing contemporary church buys
- Yamaha DXS12 MKII Under $1,000 Portable setups that want low end without a two-person lift
- JBL JRX218S Under $1,000 Rack-amplified systems with an unused amplifier channel
Projection screens and mounts
- Elite Screens Spectrum 150 in. Motorized Under $1,000 A large screen that must retract for weddings, funerals and concerts
- Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 150 in. Under $1,000 A mid-size sanctuary where the back row is 35 to 40 feet out
- Elite Screens Manual Series 150 in. Under $500 A large image in a shared room, if someone strong is on the rota
- Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 120 in. Under $500 A permanent screen position in a small to mid-size room
- Elite Screens Manual Series 120 in. Under $500 Multi-use rooms, fellowship halls and rented spaces
Digital stage boxes
- MIDAS DL32 Under $2,500 An M32 or X32 system where the front end should outlast the console
- Behringer S32 Under $1,000 A large platform where the whole input list and every monitor send originate on stage
- Behringer S16 Under $1,000 Any X32 or M32 system where the booth is more than about thirty feet from the platform
- Behringer SD16 Under $1,000 Systems that run both a digital snake and personal in-ear mixers
Loudspeaker processing
- dbx AFS2 Under $500 Lapel and lectern microphones in a room with hard surfaces
- dbx DriveRack PA2 Under $500 Any passive system, and any room that has never been tuned
- Behringer Ultradrive Pro DCX2496 Under $500 Systems with under-balcony or mid-room delay speakers to time-align
- Behringer FBQ2496 Under $250 A small budget and a persistent feedback problem on one microphone
Cameras
- PTZOptics Move 4K 30x Under $5,000 Large sanctuaries where the camera position is a long way from the platform
- PTZOptics Move 4K 20x Under $2,500 A mid-size to large room with a network already in place
- PTZOptics Move 4K 12x Under $2,500 A wide shot from close in, where a long lens cannot get the whole platform
- PTZOptics Move SE 20x Under $2,500 The standard church livestream camera, on a balcony rail or a side wall
Gooseneck, hanging and headworn microphones
Capture cards and audio interfaces
- Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 4th Gen Under $500 Churches producing a polished archive or podcast from the Sunday recording
- Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 4th Gen Under $500 A stream that needs its own mix rather than a copy of the house mix
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen Under $250 Fixing the single most common livestream complaint: bad audio
