<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jeremy,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My 2 cents from experience is that wireless mics are an extreme pain to maintain due to battery consumption and also to control the appropriate use and placement and audio... balance? If at all possible, wire them for lower maint. particularly if they receive a lot of use. Wireless is much more expensive as well, but they are convenient (it would seem) until you begin dealing with batteries. Also, if they're wireless and the mics are not in a fixed point then you have audio issues to deal with with microphone placement- including the famous picking up a wireless mic and holding it like a "StarTrek" communicator... <shudder>. Perhaps it's just me, but i like it if my users can NOT physically move the microphones that I've so carefully balanced for the acoustics in the room they are in.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I feel your pain on the wires though and in particular the microphone situation. Newer rooms here they don't want to have "fixed" mics on the tables and the tables themselves aren't fixed either (i.e. can change room config in a few minutes). I know that Jason Bell had demonstrated at SC Global his success at incorporating ceiling microphones into his room infrastructure. Perhaps some audio folks can comment on microphone placement and installation a bit for new installations.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-John Q.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">Louisiana State University</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">e-mail: <A href="mailto:johnq@lsu.edu">johnq@lsu.edu</A>; </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">web: <A href="http://lbrn.lsu.edu">http://lbrn.lsu.edu</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597</FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jeremy Mann wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I've been assigned to design and install AG systems in several</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">existing conference rooms for different departments here on campus.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One design they all agree on, is the lack of or sparse use of cables.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The one portable AG node I built several years ago is not pleasing to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the eye at all because of all the cables.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm interested to hear if anyone else has built or is using wireless</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">table top microphones, or<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>a combination of wireless microphones with</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">built-in echo cancellation.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Any brand recommendations?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jeremy Mann</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu">jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of Texas Health Science Center</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bioinformatics Core Facility</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu">http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Phone: (210) 567-2672</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>