[AG-TECH] Desktop Echo Cancellation speakers

[Joseph Stone]

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
stone004 at umn.edu

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