Samson XP40iW Portable PA Systemwith Wireless Handheld Microphone and iPod Dock, 40 Watts

• 6-inch woofer, 1-inch high frequency driver
• 40 watts of power from a lightweight Class D amplifier
• Built-In VHF wireless microphone system
• iPod dock with level control
• Speaker stand pole-mount receptacle, Rechargeable battery included
• 6-Inch woofer with 1-inch high frequency driver
• Channel 1: XLR-1/4 inch combo line or mic level input with phantom power
• Channel 2: 1/4 inch line or microphone level input
• 1/8 Inch stereo aux input allows for stereo line level signal

I wanted a speaker system to play music from my ipod during sports practices. This works great. It's small but extremely powerful. You can connect your ipod on the dock OR I use the inputs on the back of the speaker. It fills the gym with clear loud sound. I've also used the wireless microphone to do team introductions and it works great. Well built, solid, portable and powerful. It does everything I want it to do.

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I bought this unit to serve as an *Extremely* portable PA system for the heavy athletics at a small Scottish Highland Games. In my situation I will never be more than about 60-70 feet from the wireless antenna/speaker, and of course this is outdoors. I need the system to make my commentary audible for about 75-100 feet, but not more than that so that it doesn't compete with musical acts on the main stage. When I need to walk over to the area where our athletes throw the caber, I will just pick it up and carry it the 150-100 feet and set it down again and start announcing. No problem. The built-in handle is comfortable, but even if it wasn't, the thing just doesn't weigh that much.

I just got it today, and it arrived with the units battery charged, so I set it up and tried it in my back yard. With an old 9v battery in the microphone, and a completely clear line of sight to the unit, I could stand 70-75 feet away from the unit and my voice projected with no cutouts. With a fresh battery, I'm pretty sure that will go up to 100 feet. I could easily hear myself at that distance and I only had the volume up halfway. The only downside is that there's a fair bit of noise generated within the microphone, from the battery wiggling around. I think I'm going to have to tape it in there. another review that I've read said the same thing. If they solved that issue, I'd have given this unit five stars.

It took me about 20 seconds to figure out how to set up my ipod on the dock. After twiddling with the bass and treble knobs, I got a perfectly acceptable sound out of it. It's not like booming a band through a several-hundred-watt concert system, but hey....I could easily hear the music and enjoy it from 50 feet away and from 20 feet away it sounded pretty good to me.

This system does not have the oomph to fill up a big arena or to rock a big gymnasium, but it certainly would work for smaller applications like a small group playing on a street corner, or a coffeehouse with a small stage. If you wanted to just talk to people in that big gymnasium, rather than blowing the windows out, this would probably do it. On the other hand, it stores on a shelf in a utility closet, and a third grader can carry it around with minimal effort. If you want to hook a fixed/wired microphone up to it, you can. It's going to be perfect for our outdoor application.

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We have this at our golf course to use for tournaments and special events. It works great. The ipod feature is great and sounds wonderful. I have noticed when people talk loudly into the mic it tends to crackle a little bit. But for what we use this for it gets the job done.

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Great product -well built/heavy duty easy to use!!! Appreciate the quality and sound. So happy I found this PA system.

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The Samson XP40iW Portable PA System with wireless handheld microphone is great. The sound quality is exceptional and it works well with my Sennheiser wireless headset. Also work well when additional wired microphones are attached.