With many organisations now reconfiguring their traditional offices and seeking to achieve meeting equity for all participants, the importance of conferencing technology to enable productive, high-quality experiences is now more widely understood than ever before. However, selecting the right equipment to support this is not a one-size-fits-all scenario and different rooms have different characteristics – from dimensions to use cases – that should be considered. Large rooms with larger numbers of participants place different demands on microphones than small rooms with fewer physical participants.
Shure has been quick to address the differences, drawing on its extensive audio heritage to bring a range of ceiling arrays to market that have been designed with various room types and user activities in mind.
Among Shure’s Microflex Ecosystem, IT managers and AV professionals can find the Microflex Advance MXA902 Integrated Conferencing Ceiling Array - an ideal solution for small and medium-sized meeting rooms, being the world’s first conferencing ceiling array microphone with integrated loudspeaker and IntelliMix DSP. The MXA902 is perfect for IT managers seeking reliable audio easy to configure out-of-the-box that will help them transform any small or medium-sized room into a perfect meeting space.
Additionally, Shure recently launched the Microflex Advance MXA901 Conferencing Ceiling Array Microphone that offers a solution for delivering enhanced directional voice capture and reproduction in a sleek, low profile and modern design. The MXA901 offers flexible installation options minimizing on-table clutter. Available in white, black, and aluminum finishes, the 13.5 in (34 cm) diameter round form factor is unobtrusive in almost all architectural settings. It features six available accessory mounts to ensure compatibility with most ceiling types and is scalable from small to large meeting spaces with one or multiple arrays.
To ensure users get the best experience, IT managers need to identify what are the spaces’ needs and choose accordingly. Understanding that there are various options for the different room sizes, situations and architectural styles will be key on finding the most appropriate solution.
A convenient reference is the Ceiling Array Landing Page, available on the Shure website. Here, Shure explains the benefits of available ceiling array microphones and what adapts best to the different space’s needs.
