Behringer EPS500MP3

This is an excellent option if you plan to use indoor, small-to-medium size venues. In the past, I've tried various options using individual components. It's usually a headache to put things together and never really works as expected and you always have to be there in order to make the right hookups. This unit is perfect, simple, and does the job. Anyone can get it up and running in few minutes. Few things that might help others:1. Excellent build quality, very easy to move around. Speakers are 8", good sound quality. Little lacking on the base side (at low volumes).2. The "monitor out" can be used with an external sub. I tested this and worked fine. This is one question that I could not find an answer before I tried it out3. USB input is great for MP3 playback. A remote/bluetooth could be very handy!4. Haven't tried the USB wireless option. The UltraLink series (about $99/mic) is what you need, although the manual and wensite says about something else (or else I'm confused and don't still understand what's needed)4. Fan is litle noisy, specially if you're listening at low volumes. This is not a problem for an event, because the background noise is usually high and the volume levels need to be higherI wish Behringer takes little more efforts to fix their manuals and website to provide more techincal details. Right now it's an adventure to buy it and try it but I usually like to avoid such stunts. Also, this product, for instance, sounds really good at low volumes when hooked up with a sub --- almost can replace my 4X more expensive stereo system. But there's not even a mention of how to use a sub with this thing and a way to cut down the fan noise when low power levels are used. The fan noise is something that defintely needs some work

Nice little system. Comes with speaker cables (16 ft each), a surprisingly decent vocal mic (see brochure on company website for the model), a pretty long XLR male/female cable for the mic, and of course the speakers and sound board. Mine also came with what appears to be an attachment for mounting the board to a stand. I also ordered speaker stands separately. 4 stars because the digital reverb is limited to a "studio" type setting, but that is how it is advertised, so no foul. And limited reverb on this type of system is not uncommon, admitedly. The system has some power and sounds really great to me right out of the box. I recommend getting the TC-Helicon Voicetone R1 voice-tuned reverb pedal to enhance your reverb options for the main vocal mic. It's just over 100 bucks on Amazon. The mic would connect to the pedal, and then you'd run another XLR cable to the board, so get one of those if you go this route and don't have an extra. Karaoke folks may want to add an Audio 2000S portable flat panel monitor stand and maybe a second mic, and you'd have a really nice system. Overall, I am quite pleased. Of other systems in the price range, this one is a leader of the pack in my view.UPDATE: As I mentioned, the reverb on this PA is limited, and I felt bad giving one person good reverb through the TC-Helicon Voicetone R1 reverb pedal that I've been using, while the other person had a mic directly into the PA with the more limited reverb. So, I found this solution: the Galaxy Audio JIB/C Mic Combiner XLR 2 to 1. This little box accepts inputs from two XLR mics, combines the signals, and then has one XLR output which you can run into the reverb pedal. Works great as long as you aren't in a professional setting where each vocalist needs their own channel. Also, when I first set up the reverb pedal with a cheaper mic, I got some bad line noise. Could have been a fluke, but when I plugged in a Shure SM58, no noise. However, when I ran the Shure SM58 and the cheaper mic through the combiner and then into the reverb pedal and on to the PA, no line noise! So, now I can use my two mics through the reverb pedal. Obviously you'll need a bunch of XLR cables if you want to rig up two mics along with the combiner and the reverb pedal. I couldn't be more pleased with the system as a whole now. The PA sounds great by itself. Add the TC-Helicon reverb pedal and the Galaxy Audio combiner, and you're in business. With the Audio 2000S portable flat panel monitor stand (mentioned in my review) and a mic stand, all of this makes for a great home karaoke system, assuming you have a laptop and can run a VGA cable to the monitor on the monitor stand to mirror what's on the laptop screen. Get yourself an account with Singsnap.com or similar site, and your karaoke parties will last until dawn. The finishing touch is a small DIY/homemade mini-stage (mostly just to hide cables) and some track lighting with colored GU10 bulbs. : )