COMMUNICATIONS
Ready for Work: Adapting Collaboration Systems for Greater Audio Flexibility
Looking for an out-of-the-box solution to enhance meeting audio in your expanding collaboration environments? Look no further than Shure’s new Audio Conferencing Kit for top-notch quality and seamless connectivity in a single, convenient package.
Premium audio solutions have become an essential tool in communication with our colleagues and clients in geographically distributed and hybrid work settings. A driving force is the need for improved intelligibility to not only enhance dialogue but also reduce meeting fatigue and misunderstandings. By facilitating quicker and clearer communication, high quality meeting audio helps teams make decisions more rapidly and effectively, keeping projects on track. Adaptable Audio for Changing Spaces As organisations continue to redesign office spaces into modern collaboration hubs, the demand for versatile videoconferencing setups that support varying room sizes and configurations has surged. While all-in-one devices remain a popular choice, audio expansion systems may be needed to ensure superior experiences in larger and complex environments. Videobars tend to provide audio coverage and speaker output suitable to smaller or medium-sized spaces. When deployed in larger or acoustically challenging rooms, front- of-room devices may be unable to reliably and consistently capture and reproduce speech, leading to more effort required from meeting participants to hear and understand all talkers and diminishing their ability to focus on content. Room acoustics, reverberation and background noise are additional factors that further impact intelligibility. Customisation is key in larger spaces and rooms for flexible use. Tailoring conferencing systems with strategically placed audio expansion solutions can help transform all-in-
one devices into more powerful tools and help provide effective meeting audio experiences for both in-room and remote attendees. Shure’s new Audio Conferencing Kit Last week Shure launched the much anticipated Shure MXA902 + ANIUSB-MATRIX Audio Conferencing Kit which helps meet the need for consistent voice capture and sound reproduction in modern collaboration spaces. The Kit includes the MXA902 Integrated Ceiling Array, paired and pre-routed with the ANIUSB-MATRIX Audio Network Interface, and all shipping in a single box. The MXA902 efficiently provides three devices in one – an array microphone with 20’x20’ out-of-box coverage for pristine and consistent voice capture from above; a built-in loudspeaker for clear far-end speech reproduction; and powerful, onboard IntelliMix® DSP for superb AV conferencing
James Hill Director, UK sales
shure.com
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