Powersoft Amplifier Platforms

PRIMA Series

PRIMA 164 & PRIMA 324 — four channels in half a rack space

PRIMA is the newest and simplest Powersoft install amplifier: four channels, no DSP to configure, and a half-rack chassis that fits behind a counter, in a ceiling void or on a shelf with the mounting kit. It is the right answer for the many rooms that need clean, reliable low-to-mid power and nothing more — a cafe, a boutique, a classroom block, a reception and a meeting room on the same floor.

PRIMA 164 — 160 W total, 40 W per channel into 4 Ω, 8 Ω, 70 V or 100 V. With Power Sharing a single channel can draw up to 110 W into 8 Ω when its neighbours are lightly loaded.

PRIMA 324 — 320 W total, 80 W per channel into 4 Ω, 8 Ω and 70 V (70 W at 100 V), rising to 220 W into 8 Ω on an asymmetrically loaded channel.

Both models set themselves up: Auto Setup measures the connected loudspeakers and configures each output for low-impedance or distributed-line operation, Eco Mode and Auto Standby cut idle consumption, and a GPI contact lets a building system put the amplifier to sleep. Every channel works into 4 Ω, 8 Ω, 70 V or 100 V, so one PRIMA can drive a pair of surface-mount speakers in the bar and a 100 V string of ceiling speakers in the corridor at the same time.

MEZZO Series

MEZZO 322, 324, 602 & 604 — the multi-zone workhorse

MEZZO is the amplifier we specify most often for hospitality and retail. It is the same half-rack size as PRIMA but adds a full DSP on every channel, so the amplifier itself handles the equalisation, delay, limiting and zone routing that used to need a separate processor in the rack. Four MEZZO models cover two or four channels at 320 W or 600 W total, and each channel can be set to 4 Ω, 8 Ω, 70 V or 100 V independently.

Power Sharing is what makes a small MEZZO go a long way: the total output is pooled, so a channel feeding a busy dining room can draw up to 320 W while the channel feeding a quiet corridor takes what it needs. In practice that means one 604 can run four zones that would otherwise have needed two conventional amplifiers.

Three versions — A with DSP and analogue inputs; A+ adding AES67 networked audio; AD adding Dante and AES67 with a built-in two-port Gigabit switch, so a Dante network can daisy-chain through several amplifiers without a separate switch in every rack. Auto Setup measures the loudspeakers on first power-up, and third-party control integrations, including a Control4 driver, let the system sit inside a building’s automation.

The mounting kit fits MEZZO to a rack tray, a wall or a ceiling, and a plenum-rated adapter is available where the amplifier has to live above a false ceiling.

Quattrocanali & Duecanali

Four-channel and two-channel 1RU install amplifiers, 800 W to 9,600 W

When the room is a ballroom, an auditorium, a church, a large showroom or a resort’s outdoor areas, the half-rack amplifiers give way to Powersoft’s full-width install platforms. Both are a single rack unit high and weigh 7 kg, and both share the same engineering: a universal power-factor-corrected supply that tolerates poor mains, a fixed-frequency output stage, a thermally forecast variable-speed fan and the patented Smart Rails Management that recycles reactive energy from the loudspeakers instead of burning it off as heat.

Quattrocanali — four channels. The 1204 (1,200 W), 2404 (2,400 W), 4804 (4,800 W) and 8804 (9,600 W) each drive 4 Ω, 8 Ω or 70 V / 100 V lines on every channel, with channels bridgeable in pairs for a large subwoofer or a long distributed line.

Duecanali — two channels for bigger loads. The 804 (800 W), 1604 (1,600 W), 4804 (4,800 W) and 6404 (6,400 W) put the whole budget behind two outputs, which suits a pair of main loudspeakers, a subwoofer pair or two long 100 V runs across a campus.

Each model comes as DSP, DSP+ (adding AES67) or DSP+D (adding Dante). The onboard processing gives every channel its own equaliser, delay up to 100 ms for time alignment, high-pass filters and peak, RMS and TruePower limiters, and Active DampingControl compensates for long cable runs so a loudspeaker 80 metres from the rack is driven as tightly as one next to it. Everything is configured and monitored in ArmoníaPlus or from the amplifier’s web app.

UNICA Platform

UNICA 8M & 4L — the flagship install platform, 1,000 W to 16,000 W in 1RU

UNICA is Powersoft’s third-generation amplifier and the one to specify when the system is large, networked and expected to run for years without anyone standing in front of the rack. Eight models span two families: UNICA 8M with eight channels — 1K8, 2K8, 4K8 and 8K8, from 125 W to 1,000 W per channel — and UNICA 4L with four high-power channels — 5K4, 9K4, 12K4 and 16K4, from 1,250 W to 4,000 W per channel. All in a single rack unit.

What sets UNICA apart is the infrastructure around the amplification. Three Gigabit ports support Dante in switched or split-redundant topologies, so a performance venue’s primary and secondary audio networks both land on the amplifier. A PoE input keeps the network and logic alive through a mains failure, so the system reports the fault rather than vanishing. A front-panel display shows status without a laptop, Eco Mode idles channels that are not in use, and Easy Swap restores a full configuration from a USB stick in minutes if a unit ever has to be replaced.

UNICA connects to MyUniverso, Powersoft’s cloud platform, which lets us monitor the amplifiers in a client’s building from our office — impedance, temperature, mains and load faults — and respond before anyone on site has noticed. It is also Dolby Atmos Connect ready, and a Maritime Kit brings it to IEC 60945 compliance for vessels.

T Series, X Series & UNICA T

Touring and live-sound amplifiers with loudspeaker management on board

For clubs, theatres, event companies and rental inventories, Powersoft’s touring platforms carry the complete loudspeaker processing chain inside the amplifier — crossovers, FIR filters, delay and limiting — so a system goes out of the warehouse with its presets loaded and comes back in the same state.

T Series — the cost-effective 1RU touring amplifier, in two-channel (T302, T602, T902) and four-channel (T304, T604, T904) versions at 3,000 W, 6,000 W and above, delivering 1,500 W per channel into 2 Ω or 4 Ω and bridging to 3,000 W. AES3 and Dante inputs, raised-cosine group EQ, 42.6 ms FIR filters and preset compatibility with the X Series, controlled from ArmoníaPlus or the built-in web app.

X Series — the reference touring amplifier for large-format systems. The four-channel X4 and X4L and the eight-channel X8 provide 1,600 W per channel into 8 Ω and up to 40,000 W total, with a three-phase-capable power supply, a full routing matrix with four selectable sources per channel, native AES3 and optional Dante. Powersoft’s loudspeaker preset library in ArmoníaPlus covers more than a thousand models from the major manufacturers.

UNICA T — the touring edition of the UNICA platform. The UNICA 4T delivers 20.8 kW across four channels and the 8T 10 kW across eight, both in 1RU, with Dante embedded, galvanically isolated HyperCMRR inputs for noise immunity on long festival snakes, and a 116 dBA signal-to-noise ratio — the quietest amplifier Powersoft makes.

Nota, WM Touch & Dynamic Music Distribution

The pieces that turn amplifiers into a zoned music system

Dynamic Music Distribution is Powersoft’s name for something quietly radical: because every MEZZO, Quattrocanali, Duecanali and UNICA already has a DSP and a network port, the amplifiers can be the whole multi-zone system. Sources are routed to zones, levels and scenes are set, and staff controls are assigned in the install view of ArmoníaPlus — with no separate matrix processor in the rack. A hotel with a lobby, all-day dining, a bar, a spa and a pool deck runs on a handful of amplifiers and a wall panel in each area.

Nota 142 — a two-channel, 140 W amplifier small enough to sit behind a display or above a ceiling tile, powered entirely by PoE++ through the same Ethernet cable that carries its AES67 audio. It has its own DSP and Auto Setup, a USB-C port that doubles as a USB-to-AES67 interface, and runs cool in an enclosed space. For a meeting room, a corridor or a single retail bay, it removes the need for a rack altogether.

WM Touch — a 4.3-inch PoE-powered touchscreen in a standard single-gang back box, in black or white. Its layouts are built for music distribution: pick a source, adjust a zone, recall a scene, switch the system on or off. Simple enough for a restaurant manager at the start of a shift. The smaller WMP panels and the Sys Control phone app cover the same functions where a touchscreen is more than the brief needs.

ArmoníaPlus, HealthPlus & MyUniverso — ArmoníaPlus is where we design, configure and tune the system; HealthPlus within it shows live impedance curves, temperatures and voltages for every output and raises an alert when a loudspeaker line changes; and MyUniverso, through a VERSO Gateway or a UNICA amplifier, carries that monitoring to the cloud so we can watch a client’s system from Koramangala.