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Karen Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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UofMN Web Standards <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks so much, Aaron. Unfortunately the price is too much for us. And it
sounds like at some point in the future efforts may be undertaken to build
in this technology in our conference room (although I don't know how soon!).

In the meantime I am going to try this microphone and see if it will be an
improvement:

http://www.amazon.com/MXL-AC404-USB-Conference-Microphone/dp/B001TGTDFM

Thanks again for responding.

Karen


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Aaron Zirbes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I was suggesting a "phone-less" solution.  Our Polycom phone has a
> headphone jack and mic input jack that can be plugged directly into the
> computer's headphone and mic jacks.  I believe this is standard across most
> polycom phones now.
>
> We have a: Polycom® SoundStation2™
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
> Aaron
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Karen Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Aaron, do you know if these require digital or analog phone lines? That's
>> another problem we ran into was an incompatibility in that respect. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Aaron Zirbes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Newer polycom phones can be used as just a mic and speaker setup.
>>> On Oct 20, 2011 3:22 PM, "Karen Anderson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hopefully this is a good place to ask this question and I apologize if
>>>> it is not.
>>>>
>>>> We conducted our first UMConnect staff meeting today with people at two
>>>> locations. Our weakest link is the microphone. We had a multidirectional
>>>> microphone (rather old) and unless people actually held it and talked right
>>>> into it, the sound was not good enough for the remote sites. This would work
>>>> if it were just a few people but we have a long table with seats for 14 and
>>>> so it wasn't possible to reach the microphone from one end of the table to
>>>> another.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone suggest a good microphone, to use with a MAC, for a
>>>> conference room (not huge but not small either), preferably a USB connector?
>>>> We want a really powerful one that will pick up voices all around the table.
>>>> We have another meeting next week where we will be videoconferencing, so I
>>>> was hoping to maybe purchase something before Thursday.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>>>
>>>> Karen
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Aaron J. Zirbes
> Application, Systems and Security Engineer
> Environmental Health Sciences | University of Minnesota
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