Sound & Video Contractor presents product coverage related to microphone technology

Year for New AV Gear

Staff Report

The world's largest AV tradeshow got even bigger in June with the 2006 edition of InfoComm in Orlando, Fla. According to InfoComm International, attendance figures for this year's InfoComm exhibition hit...

ClearOne Converge 560/590

By John McJunkin

ClearOne of Salt Lake City is well known for high-quality conferencing systems. The company's latest offering is yet another example of why it is on the...

Sennheiser Introduces the Evolution 602 II

Sennheiser is introducing the e 602 II cardioid-dynamic microphone —successor to the popular e 602—to its exciting lineup of evolution series microphones. The ...

Shure Introduces Wired KSM9 Condenser Microphone

Drawing upon the technological developments advanced within Shure's KSM line of microphones, the new hardwired KSM9 condenser mic...

What's New: Audio Technology

By Laura Dixon

Martin Audio unveiled a new range of LE monitors: the LE1200, LE1500, and LE2100. The LE2100 three-way stage monitor offers very high power for use in large-stage...

NSCA 2006 Recap

As the systems contractors’ show, NSCA certainly showcases plenty in the way of audio and video gear, but there’s also a ton of supporting technology that doesn’t offer the immediate flash of a loudspeaker or a 60in. plasma...

Technology Showcase:
Videoconferencing Room Systems

By Jay Ankeney

The concept of the videoconference is as old as telephony itself. Many early sci-fi films depicted the technology before it became a practical reality....

Revolabs Solo Wireless Microphone Systems

Revolabs announced the launch of its Solo suite of products, a secure wireless microphone system for professional conferencing and audio solutions, at the 2006 NSCA Expo. The Solo Executive and Solo Desktop System combine optimized voice audio quality and an innovative wireless form factor for conferencing, distance learning, and other professional collaborative applications....

Harry Joseph and Associates Hushbutton

A microphone looks the same whether it’s on or off, a worrisome thing to users gathered around a conference table and who need to be absolutely sure the other end of an audio conference or videoconference doesn’t hear their side comments. And a user wanting to mute his/her mic for whatever reason—a side consultation, a cell phone call, a sneeze—has until now been out of luck. Harry Joseph and Associates ride to the rescue with Hushbutton, a lighted switch that fits around a table microphone, leaving no doubt as to the state of the mic. ...

Favorite Tech Tools

By Bennett Liles

The Neanderthal man had his fire and flints. From there, a series of simple gadgets from the wheel to the wireless remote have changed our lives by making things possible or getting things done much more quickly and easily. After each of these advances, it has become difficult for us to imagine how we got along without. In the AV age, there has evolved a group of gadgets enabling “AV Installer...