Paul, We have used the Phoenix SOHO, as well as other Phoenix products and find them to be very capable and reliable. We currently use the SOHO card in our Modular Room systems with one or two Wireless Microphones and find this to be a very good solution. We do not feel that the SOHO is a good fit for large rooms or wired microphone applications due the need for Phantom Power required by wired microphones and the lack of advanced microphone tuning. The large space and multiple sources that come with a multiple microphone configuration requires additional processing on a per microphone basis that would not be offered in a SOHO type configuration. In these situations we prefer the ClearOne products which have been designed to operate in this type of environment and offer per microphone DSP control. The sweet spot for the SOHO card is one to two microphones.
The Phoenix SOHO and DUET line are very good echo canceling products and fit nicely in a small conference room or single user hands free system. In this type of application they offer clear, noise suppressed and echo canceled audio with minimal configuration. Please let me know if you have any questions. Gary A. Refka Director, Engineering Operations INSORS Integrated Communications, Inc. 111 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1412 Chicago, IL 60604 Email: [email protected] On the Web: www.insors.com Mobile (224)622-4279 Office (312)786-9169 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hatton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:49 AM To: Bonnett, PG (Paul) Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Desktop Echo Cancellation speakers Interesting, Paul. Have you (or anyone else on ag-tech) any experience of putting this into an existing lecture room that already has standard mic and speakers used for lectures, as well as a PC? Context is our planned rollout of several insors personal nodes in locations that may include existing lecture/seminar rooms. Buying a separate echo-cancelling microphone is an option but it sort-of feels messy if an audio system is already in there, and securing it may also be a problem. Any advice welcome. How about fixing an AG meeting sometime to discuss this between anyone who is interested? It seems to have sparked a lot of interest on ag-tech and we might as well use the technology to share ideas and experience, after all. Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Desktop Echo Cancellation speakers Date sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:59:54 +0100 From: "Bonnett, PG (Paul)" <[email protected]> To: "Thomas D. Uram" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Copies to: "Doug Baggett" <[email protected]>, "ag-tech" <[email protected]> > > For example the Echo Cancelling card from Phoenix (see > http://www.accessgrid.org/taxonomy/term/24) is 1/40th of the cost of a > Clear One unit, and yet there are places where I have run one as a > substitute. > > BTW Doug, > This card is more than adequate for a desktop node and allows you to > use 'standard' (aka cheap) speakers & microphones in a PIG setup. > > Regards, > Paul -- Paul Hatton High Performance Computing and Visualisation Specialist Technical Director, HP Visual and Spatial Technology Centre Information Services, Elms Road Computer Centre, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT. Ph: 0121-414-3994 Fax: 0121-414-3952 M: 07785-977340
