[AG-TECH] use of polycom with AG

[Jeffrey Schwab]

	I have used one here with the interconnect box.  It is satisfactory
but not great.  The echo cancel is fine, but the audio itself is pretty much
telephone/speakerphone grade.  For the money, I prefer the Clearone Accumic
PC if you don't need to do telephone audio conference support in the same
room.

	Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf
Of Michael Miller
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:05 AM
To: ag-tech
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] use of polycom with AG

Julie,

We often use the Polycom SoundStation in AG PIGs.  One caveat is you 
need to purchase their Video Interconnect box to connect the sound 
station to your sound card.  There also seems to be an impedance 
mismatch which requires that you keep your inpout levels very low, 
almost off.  Also, for the price I personally don't think the audio 
quality is very good.  Polycom's audio seems to be tuned for use over 
the phone which is much lower quality audio than the capabilities of AG.

My $0.02

MYK

Julia Mullen wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I vaguely remember some discussion of using a polycom microphone for
>AG purposes.  Can anyone tell me how well this works?  Are there any
>pitfalls that I should avoid?
>
>Thanks,
>
>  Julie
>
>
>  
>

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Thanx,

Michael Miller
System Engineer
Video Technology Services
Persistent Infrastructure Directorate
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois - UC
217-649-074

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