RCF Voice Alarm (VA) systems are professional, EN54-certified PAVA (Public Address & Voice Alarm) solutions renowned for their reliability, excellent speech intelligibility, and ease of installation. Designed for clear emergency evacuation messaging alongside day-to-day paging and background music, RCF systems are a popular choice for medium-sized installations.
This category features key components of the RCF DXT 3000 and DXT 4000 voice evacuation systems, including:
These RCF voice alarm systems are ideal for schools, offices, retail stores, hotels, community centres, factories, warehouses, and other public buildings where clear emergency communication is essential. They support multi-zone operation, full system monitoring, and seamless integration with fire detection systems to meet BS 5839 and EN54 requirements.
With their robust build quality and flexible modular design, RCF VA systems deliver professional performance at a competitive price point.
Explore our full range of RCF Voice Alarm components today and build a compliant, high-performance life safety solution for your project.
A modular, EN54-certified public address and voice alarm system, mainly the DXT 3000 and DXT 4000 ranges. Schools, offices, retail, hotels, factories and community buildings use it for emergency evacuation messages, paging and background music.
A basic mixer-amp is used to play music and provide microphone paging. It is not supervised and has no battery standby for a fire system. An RCF VA master monitors the system, stores emergency messages and is designed to meet EN54 and BS 5839-8. Do not use a shop mixer-amp as a voice-alarm controller.
The master units and emergency microphones are certified for voice alarm. Speakers on the system must be EN54-24. The installation is designed to BS 5839-8. A certified controller with non-certified speakers is not a compliant system.
A VA master unit with an integrated amplifier, an emergency or paging microphone, and EN54-24 speakers. Larger sites add zone keyboards, extra masters or amplifiers, and battery backup. Start from the number of zones, not from a single box.
Masters are offered in 2-, 4- and 6-zone versions. Keyboards extend the number of zone keys at the desk. Count fire compartments and areas that must be addressed separately. Spare zones are cheaper at install than a later rebuild.
A desktop paging mic is for day-to-day announcements and zone selection. A fireman’s microphone is the emergency station, used when the system is in alarm. Both can be on the same system. The emergency path has priority.
So a failed amplifier, an open speaker line or a missing message can be reported and rectified before an evacuation event. A system that cannot detect a dead circuit is not doing the job BS 5839-8 expects. Monitoring is part of the VA master, not an optional extra.
Yes for a life-safety system. Battery chargers and batteries keep the system running if the mains fails during a fire. Size them for the required standby and alarm period. A master on mains only is not a complete VA install.
Yes. It is a PAVA system, so music and paging run in normal use and the emergency message takes priority. The amplifier and the speakers still have to be the certified VA types. Music level must leave headroom for speech.
Commercial Audio Solutions stocks RCF DXT VA masters, paging and fireman’s microphones, zone keyboards and battery options. Call 01663 767888 or email sales@commercialaudiosolutions.com with the number of zones and whether the job is a new system or a replacement.
