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