<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have had experience with two Phoenix echo canceling speaker microphones.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) Solo (actually not a speaker). Requires that you connect external speakers. Inexpensive (relatively) at $130 US. Untested by us.</DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV>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</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The performance of these is comparable to the $5000+ Gentner+mic+speaker system in our IG node.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is now a product from Polycom called the Communicator. Clearly aimed at the Phoenix Duet PCS market. Cute and small. Untested. $130 US.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Joe</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Jimmy Miklavcic wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Well that's spooky. It looks like they bought the Duet PCS unit, slapped</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">their logo on it and jacked the price by $100. You can get the same</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thing at emicrophones.com for $149. These vendors sure do get tricksy.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Joseph Stone</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Senior Informatics Manager</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Family Medicine Community Health, Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Suite 220 Dinnaken</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">925 Delaware St. SE</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Minneapolis, MN 55414</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(612) 624-3192</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:stone004@umn.edu">stone004@umn.edu</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>