On October 12, 2011 at 11:07, sofa_king_CI said...
To compare above, the Prodigy PMC3 is (was) $800 msrp plus $99 for iphone or ipad license. Apples to Apples, the PMC3 smokes the XP3. However, if you don't need an RF gateway, crestron has another small processor that is $700 msrp.
Talking about the RTI 4 zone amp, AD-4, it's 20 watts per channel, 8ohm only, and 3.5 mm Audio inputs (just irritating to me for some reason) and sells for $900.
The Prodigy PAMP is 50 watts per channel, 4 ohm stable, 6 inputs and $1100. Pretty damn close and pretty easy sell from 900 to 1100 for double the power.
I sell both RTI and Prodigy and now Crestron. No doubt about it, pamp is solid preamp/amp and is almost required for a prodigy system. I was an early adapter of Prodigy and when I sold this system the pamp had yet to be released. I was forced to use something else, I used another company's matrix switch an a separate amp with Prodigy and it was nothing short of a nightmare. It literally took months to get this system to work properly. At the time of the install, I thought, Crestron is the world's best control company, how hard can it be to add a 8x8 matrix and amp to their system to Prodigy? Well, I found out the hard way. That job truly opened my eyes to the shortcomings of composer and sb and made me realize the value of RTI's Integration Designer.
