I have had experience with two Phoenix echo canceling speaker microphones. 1) Solo (actually not a speaker). Requires that you connect external speakers. Inexpensive (relatively) at $130 US. Untested by us. 2) Duet PCS. Good with its own built in speaker (two, three, maybe four people in a quite, small room). Excellent with quality sounding external speakers. $150 US. 3) Duet Executive. Good with its own speaker, excellent with external speakers (see PCS above). Has a connector that accepts the _handset_ cable of a regular telephone (excellent idea now that most office phones are digital and many are going to IP telephony but still use a standard RJ-like handset cable). We're having problems getting the handset jack to work. $199 US
The performance of these is comparable to the $5000+ Gentner+mic+speaker system in our IG node. There is now a product from Polycom called the Communicator. Clearly aimed at the Phoenix Duet PCS market. Cute and small. Untested. $130 US. Joe On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Jimmy Miklavcic wrote: Well that's spooky. It looks like they bought the Duet PCS unit, slapped their logo on it and jacked the price by $100. You can get the same thing at emicrophones.com for $149. These vendors sure do get tricksy. Joseph Stone Senior Informatics Manager Family Medicine Community Health, Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota Suite 220 Dinnaken 925 Delaware St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612) 624-3192 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
