
🔊 Monacor PA-948: Professional 480 W Mono PA Mixing Amplifier
The Monacor PA-948 is a powerful and versatile 480 W mono PA mixing amplifier engineered for professional public address, background music, and announcement systems. Built into a durable 3U, 19-inch rack-mountable chassis, it offers flexible connectivity and essential features for medium-to-large installations in schools, commercial spaces, warehouses, and places of worship.
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High Power Output: Delivers 1 x 480 W of power, suitable for driving both 100 V line systems and traditional low-impedance (4 ohms) speakers via robust screw terminals.
Comprehensive Inputs: Features 4 balanced microphone/line inputs (XLR) with selectable priority function, ensuring important announcements override other audio sources. It also includes 4 stereo line inputs (RCA) for connecting media players, tuners, or other auxiliary sources.
48 V Phantom Power: Switchable 48 V phantom power on the microphone inputs allows for the use of high-quality condenser microphones.
External Chime: Includes a 2-tone or 4-tone chime function that can be activated externally, perfect for attention signals or paging.
Audio Control: Offers input level control, output master level control, and a 2-way tone control (bass/treble) to fine-tune the final sound output.
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Emergency Power Ready: The amplifier supports both standard mains operation and 24 V DC emergency power operation, ensuring continuous functionality during a mains power failure.
Flexible Outputs: Provides a balanced line output (XLR) and a record output (RCA) for connecting to external devices or additional amplifiers.
Insert Facility: An insert facility is included for integrating external effect units, equalizers, or feedback controllers into the signal chain.
Built to Last: Housed in a durable steel chassis and featuring a temperature-controlled fan for continuous, reliable operation and protection against overheating.
The Monacor PA-948 is the robust and feature-rich core your public address and background music system needs.
| PA-948 | |
|---|---|
| Peak output power | 680 W |
| Power rating | 480 W |
| Power rating at 4 Ω | 480 W |
| Power rating at 100 V | 480 W |
| Power rating at 70 V | 480 W |
| Channels | 5 |
| Inputs | 2.5-100Â mV (mic),
350Â mV (line) |
| Frequency range | 50-16,000 Hz |
| Equalizer bass | ± 10 dB/100 Hz |
| Equalizer treble | ± 10 dB/10 kHz |
| S/N ratio | > 75 dB |
| THD | < 0.1% |
| Phantom power | 48 V |
| Power supply | ˜ 230 V/50 Hz/1,090 VA,
DC 24Â V/27Â A |
| Mains voltage | ~ 230 V |
| Mains frequency | 50 Hz |
| Power consumption, operation | 1,090 VA |
| Operating voltage (possible alternative) | DC 24 V |
| Power supply (possible alternative) | DC 27 A |
| Admiss. ambient temp. | 0-40 °C |
| Width | 482 mm |
| Height | 137 mm |
| Depth | 395 mm |
| Rack units, RU | 3 |
| Weight | 19 kg |
| Connections | 4 x XLR (mic),
4 x RCA L/R (line), 1 x XLR (line out), 1 x RCA L/R (line out), screw terminals (speakers) |
| Packaging dimensions (W x H x L) | 0.5 x 0.225 x 0.55 m |
| Gross weight | 21.96 kg |
| Net weight | 18.81 kg |