studio
$99,000.00USD
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Best for
Medium-sized professional recording, mixing, mastering, and outside-broadcast facilities that need a full-range main monitor reaching 20 Hz without dedicated subwoofers, with 126 dB maximum SPL and the option of soffit or stand mounting. Also suited as rear surrounds in larger multichannel rooms; PMC's Control 1200 includes 'PointOne' channel inputs for the LFE/sub channel of multichannel mixes, and a matching low-profile centre channel exists for surround configurations.
Who should skip
Home and project-studio users or anyone monitoring nearfield in a small room — this is a main monitor system with 49 kg cabinets plus outboard rack electronics (Control 1200 and Power 2400 per side). Buyers who need a simple self-powered speaker with onboard analog inputs should also look elsewhere: the published input spec is AES3 digital (24-bit/96 kHz), and no analog input is documented on the cited sources.
Watchouts
PMC's own MB3 page conflicts with itself on LF amplifier power: the overview states 'Power per channel: 3225W (HF 275W, MF 550W, LF 2400W)' while its spec table lists 'LF - 1 x 1200Wrms'; verified retail listing repeats the 1200 W RMS figure while Funky Junk and Wired Tunes list 2,400 W. The 2,400 W figure is arithmetically consistent with the stated 3,225 W total and is used here, but confirm with PMC/dealer before purchase. Funky Junk also lists the AES3 input as 24-bit/192 kHz versus 24-bit/96 kHz on PMC's page and verified retail listing. Note the manufacturer's published spec page is for the MB3-A; the MB3S-A shares its published specs across retailers (and PMC hosts an 'MB3S-A-with-amps' drawing on the same page), but PMC does not publish a separate MB3S-A spec table, so the dimensions listed may be for the standard cabinet.
Likely add-ons
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