Yamaha DXR12mkII: The 12-Inch Powered Speaker That Replaces a PA Rack

The Yamaha DXR12mkII is a 12-inch, 2-way bi-amplified powered loudspeaker built for the working musician, mobile DJ, and house-of-worship tech who needs serious output without hauling a power amp and outboard processing. A 1100W Class-D engine - 950 watts to the low driver, 150 to the high - pushes a 134 dB peak SPL out of a cabinet that weighs just 41 pounds. Whether you are filling a club, anchoring a worship stage, or covering a wedding dance floor, one DXR12mkII does the job of a far heavier conventional rig.

FIR-X Tuning Gives You Studio-Grade Phase Response on a Stage Box

Most powered speakers in this class use a simple analog crossover that smears timing between the woofer and the tweeter. The DXR12mkII runs Yamaha's FIR-X tuning - a linear-phase FIR filter that splits the signal between the 12-inch ferrite woofer and the 1.75-inch neodymium compression driver while keeping both transducers time-aligned. The payoff is a crossover region that stays coherent and uncolored, so vocals sit naturally and transients snap instead of blurring. It is the kind of processing that used to live only in install-grade systems.

D-CONTOUR Turns One Speaker Into a Main and a Monitor

Buyers who gig know the frustration of carrying separate boxes for front-of-house and stage monitoring. The DXR12mkII's D-CONTOUR DSP solves it with a single switch: FOH/MAIN mode optimizes the response for a pole-mounted main throwing out to an audience, while MONITOR mode re-voices the cabinet for use as a floor wedge tilted up at the performer. The 35mm pole socket even offers a 0 or 7 degree down-tilt for better audience coverage off a stand.

A Built-In 3-Channel Mixer Means You Can Leave the Mixer at Home

The DXR12mkII includes a real 3-channel mixer on the back panel: a combo XLR input for a microphone or line source, a pair of 1/4-inch phone inputs, and a stereo RCA input for a music player or laptop. For a solo performer, a presenter, or a small acoustic act, that is the entire signal chain - plug in a mic and a backing track and you are running sound, no external console required. When you do scale up, the THRU output passes INPUT1 along and the LINK OUT XLR daisy-chains the cabinet to a second speaker.

52 Hz Reach, 90-Degree Coverage, and a Build That Survives the Road

The 12-inch woofer reaches down to 52 Hz, delivering kick and bass-guitar body that most 10-inch boxes can't manage without a subwoofer. The 90 x 60 degree nominal coverage spreads sound evenly across a room instead of beaming a hot spot. And the whole thing lives in a rugged ABS matte-black enclosure with M10 flying points top and rear for permanent installs, plus the optional UB-DXR12 U-bracket for wall or ceiling mounting. A universal 100-240V supply runs it anywhere on the included cord.

Who the DXR12mkII Is For

First-time PA buyers get an all-in-one main that needs nothing but a cable and a source. Upgraders moving off entry-level plastic boxes finally get the headroom, the low-end reach, and the phase-coherent clarity that FIR-X delivers. And the comparison shopper weighing this against heavier, costlier rigs gets the numbers that close the decision: 1100W, 134 dB, 41 pounds, FIR-X, D-CONTOUR, and a built-in mixer in one cabinet.