Crown 180MAx Mixer Amplifier with an Integrated XM Radio Tuner

The 180MAx PACK from Crown Audio offers everything you need in a background music/paging system right out of the box. It includes the 180MAx mixer/amplifier with a built-in XM radio tuner.  With the 180MAx, adding a professional business music system to your place of business has never been simpler, or more affordable! Crown’s 180MAx is the first integrated XM Radio tuner mixer-amplifier designed for commercial use. And it’s the only system matching the outstanding sound quality and reliability of Crown with XM, America’s number one satellite radio service with 160 channels of digital sound and over 60 commercial-free channels!

Features

• Brings cost effective, professional grade business music system featuring XM Radio and more to your business.
• Perfect for offices, lunch rooms, warehouses, restaurants, bars and retail stores.
• Simple connections for quick set-up and system expansion.
• Powerful Crown mixer/amplifier for superior sound quality.
• Front-panel LCD screen lets provides XM channel information at a glance.
• 20 custom presets for your favorite XM channels make channel selection easy and fast.
• Bass and treble controls allow you to tailor the tone quality of the sound system.
• Expand your system with a microphone for paging, and a second music source with a CD player.
• Built-in priority muting feature automatically drops the volume of the background music when the microphone is being used.
• Includes music-on-hold output, which easily connects to most business phone systems.
• XM line out allows even greater system expansion flexibility.
• Three Year Warranty protects your investment and guarantees its specifications

Included Accessories

Power cord

Detachable rack ears

Screws for rack ears

Non-touch cover for output connectors

Phoenix-type connectors

Spade lugs

XM antenna

Remote control

Performance

Frequency Reponse (at 1 watt from 4-ohm tap):  70 Hz to 19 kHz ±1 dB.

Frequency Response (at line out): 20 Hz to 20 kHz ±1 dB.

Power Bandwidth (at 4-ohm tap, 2 dB below maxium 1 kHz power): 50 Hz to 20 kHz with < 0.5% THD

Signal to Noise Ratio (ref. to rated power, master volume at minimum): 85 dB.

DC Output Offset: < ±5 mV.

THD: Less than 0.5% at rated power at 1 kHz.

Input Sensitivity (for full output at maximum

gain):

Balanced mic inputs: 3 mV.

Balanced line inputs: 800 mV.

RCA connectors: 400 mV.

Isolated telephone input: 75 mV.

Input Impedance (nominal):

Mic: 400 ohms.

Line: 100 kilohms.

RCA: 50 kilohms.

Telephone: 600 ohms.

Crosstalk: –70dB at 1kHz.

Line Output Level (nominal): 1V into 10 kilohms.

Phantom Power: 15 VDC.

AC Line Voltages Available:

120V, 60 Hz. Line voltage tolerance +10%, –20%.

Operating Temperature/Humidity: 0° C to 40° C

at 95% relative humidity (non-condensing).

Storage Temperature: –20° C to 85° C.

Front Panel Controls and Indicators

Power Switch: Pushbutton on-off switch.

Input Volume Controls: Four detented potentiometers

with knobs.

Input 1: Microphone/line (switchable)/telephone.

Inputs 2 and 3: Line.

Input 4: XM radio.

Tone Controls: Bass and Treble non-detented recessed potentiometers on each input channel.

Bass ±10 dB at 100 Hz, Treble ±10 dB at 10 kHz.

XM Tuner Menu Button: Selects Direct, Preset, or Category mode.

XM Tuner Category Buttons: Scrolls through categories (rock, classical, news, country, etc).

XM Tuner Scroll Knob: Lets you scroll through channels and select them.

XM Tuner Display: LCD screen displays XM channel data (channel number, channel name, artist name, song title), 16 station presets and signal strength.

Power Indicator: Blue LED indicates power on.

Input Signal Presence Indicator: Green LED illuminates when input signal exceeds –24 dBu (line) or –70 dBu (mic).

Output Signal Presence Indicator: Green LED, illuminates when output signal level exceeds 100 mV (45 dB below full power) from the 4-ohm tap.

Clip Indicator: Red LED on output illuminates at threshold of audible distortion.

Output Volume Control: Detented potentiometer

with knob.

Back Panel Controls, Connectors and

Indicators

Reset Switch: Resets the circuit breaker that protects the power supply.

MOH 1V Level Control: Trim pot adjusts level for Music-On-Hold 1V output.

MOH 1W Level Control: Trim pot adjusts level for Music-On-hold 1W output.

MOH Signal Presence Indicator: Flashes when MOH signal is present.

MOH Source Switch: Switches between Input 3 or XM, and routes the source to MOH 1V Line Out and MOH 1W connectors.

MOH 1W Select Switch: Feeds 1W MOH signal either to amplifi er output or internal speaker.

MOH 1V Line Output RCA Connectors: Two RCA connectors (mono) for 1-volt output (in parallel with 600-ohm connectors, so they are isolated).

MOH 1W Line Output Connector: 3-pin Phoenix connector provides Music-On-Hold signal of approximately 1 watt.

MOH 1V Line Output Phoenix Connector: 3-pin Phoenix connector, 600-ohm transformer-isolated output, provides Music-On-Hold signal of approximately 1 volt.

Phantom Power Switch: Turns phantom power on or off for Input 1.

Mic/line Switch: Selects mic-level or line-level signal for Input 1.

Link In/Out Switch: Slide switch. When set to IN, any signal applied to the Amp Input connector

will be mixed with the input signal(s); when set to OUT, only the signal from the Amp Input Connector

will appear at the amplifier output.

Amplifi er Output Connectors: 4-position terminal strip with COM (Common), 4 ohms, 25V and 70V

terminals. Accepts up to 10 AWG crimp-on terminal forks. Non-touch cover included.

XM Radio Stereo Line Out Connector: Dual RCA jacks for stereo music out from XM Radio tuner.

Preamp Line Out Connector: 3-pin balanced Phoenix-type connector. Post master, pre-VCA.

Level controlled by master volume control.

Output VCA Connector: 3-pin Phoenix-type connector for two VCA control lines of +10 VDC and ground. Compatible with Crown 1-VCAP module.

Priority Connector: 3-pin Phoenix-type connector for push-to-talk mic switch. Contact closure activatges

ducking. Ducking does not affect Music-On-Hold outputs or XM stereo line out.

Active Indicator: LED illuminates when VOX ducking is active.

VOX Threshold: Trim pot adjusts how loud the voice must be before ducking occurs. Can be set for no ducking.

Priority Release Control: Trim pot adjusts release time of VOX ducking.

Mic/Line Input Connector (Input 1 only): 3-pin

Phoenix-type, balanced.

Line Input Connectors (Inputs 2 and 3 only):

3-pin Phoenix-type, balanced.

Dual RCA Input Connector: For stereo music signals, unbalanced, summed together, two connectors per input for inputs 1, 2 and 3.

TEL Input Connector: Transformer-isolated 600-ohm input, summed into Input 1 for paging from

a telephone system.

Amp Input Connector: 3-pin Phoenix-type, highimpedance balanced. Used to link an additional

mixer to the mixer-amplifi er. Can be used to connect an external processor.

AC Power Inlet: Detachable IEC.

XM Radio Antenna Input: Connects to the XM

antenna cable.

Cooling

Convection cooled.

Protection

Current Limit Protection: Included.

Thermal Limit Protection: Over-temperature

thermal cutout.

DC-Fault Load Protection: Included.

180MAx back panel

Optional Accessories

1-VCAP remote volume control.

Dimensions

Width (without rack ears): 17.3 in. (43.8 cm).

Width (with rack ears): EIA Standard 19 in. W (EIARS-310-B).

Height (front panel): 3.5 in. (8.9 cm).

Height (including feet): 4.1 in. (10.5 cm).

Depth (front panel to back panel): 12.2 in. (31.0 cm).

Depth (front of knobs to back of non-touch cover): 13.9 in. (35.2 cm).

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