Conference room A/V design or consult experts?

[Russ Smith]

I'm in the Bay Area of California so this may be the wrong place to ask anybody know of companies that consult advise on equipment for conference rooms and board rooms? We've been directed to upgrade our boardroom and one other large conference room in terms of A/V. I have one company I've used before called One Work Place but they're very expensive and you spend more time telling them no I don't need that to extraneous things they recommend, than you do telling them what you actually want.

So I'd like to have a few other companies to bring in for quotes. I tried calling Polycom since they're local, they sell the equipment but they don't actually do the consulting and recommendations themselves apparently.

We basically want someone to come in and do some custom work for us, build in microphones around the rooms for better coverage on conference calls, things like that.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

maybe you could try here.... AVS Forum

Dedicated Theater Design & Construction

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=19

I'm sure you could post there and get a better response.

 

[Russ Smith]

maybe you could try here.... AVS Forum

Dedicated Theater Design & Construction

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=19

I'm sure you could post there and get a better response.

Thanks I registered and posted something there.

 

[Russ Smith]

To update this, anybody who has problems with audio on conference calls should look at Clear One's Max Ex conference phone instead of a Polycom.
Has a base unit and then is expandable so you can add "pods" all over your conference table. We got a base station and 3 pods and it completely solved all of our problems.

Each pod is a functional phone so you can dial or mute etc from any of the pods. You mute one, they all mute, and the sound quality is WAY ahead of the standar polycom's or the ones with extra microphones.

More expensive, about $1000 for one base station and 3 pods, but very good technology very impressed with it so far.

We thought we were going to need a custom designed audio system but it appears the Clear One phone will solve all our problems.