Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker II Array Microphone - USB

I love my Voice Tracker II for the following reasons:It clearly picks up talkers 20 feet away.It connected easily to my laptop thru the USB port; no set up was required.It is much smaller than other array mics, and I can carry it with me.The acoustic echo cancellation works really well.And finally, it was much less expensive than comparative array mics

Meh- it's ok in quite small rooms but the noise canceling is tied to a 3.5mm solution which is tough to interface with on modern conference room equipment. We find that the noise floor is good but the output gain of the device could be better. It does work without drivers which is great but I wouldn't recommend for a room where you're more than 8'-10' from the microphone max and that's stretching it.

Great noise cancelling, but the audio is muffled and only good for 2-3 people in a room from my experience. I'm surprised at all the positive comments, because when I compared this to other microphones it just failed to impress.Here's how various conference room mics stack up in my book:- Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920, 1 star. Decent video but the microphone is terrible. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone!- Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker II, 2 stars. Great noise cancelling, but the audio is muffled and only good for 2-3 people in a room.- Phoenix Condor Beamforming Array Microphone, 2 stars. Audio is weak, tinny, and sounds like you're talking to someone on an old cell phone. Pretty lame for a $1000+ microphone.- Sound Tech CM-1000USB, 2 stars. Pretty crappy audio, wish I would have kept the box so I could return it. Lots of ambient noise pick up compared to the MXL.- Jabra SPEAK 510, 2.5 stars. At just $100, this has better audio quality than the $1100 Phoenix Condor. The problem is that it only has one microphone, so compared to the MXL it sounds quiet, muffled and generally pretty bad. Still better than a few of the others listed here.- Blue Microphones Snowball, 2.5 stars. I'm not sure what all the hype is about. The MacBook Air's microphone was far better than the audio from this thing. Returned it.- ClearOne Chat 170, 4 stars. This has pretty decent audio but compared to the MXL it sounds muffled and it chops in and out. The advantage is that since it's also the speaker it has perfect feedback prevention, meaning the person speaking through the ClearOne doesn't hear their own voice feeding back to them at all. I'd recommend this for 4-5 people in a conference room.- Blue Microphones Yeti USB, 4 stars. This is my second favorite compared to the MXL. Audio is pretty clear and it has decent range. The MXL still sounds better and has better full-room pick up though.- MXL AC-404, 5 stars. The clarity sensitivity of this microphone is far better than most, and the best micrpohone I've tried so far. This is, so far, the winner for our company conference rooms that hold 8-10 people.- MXL AC-360-Z, 5 stars. This is basically four AC-404's put together into a single nice looking package optimized for Zoom Rooms. If you're using Zoom Rooms and have a room where you need to pick up speakers from any direction this is a great microphone package!Let me know what you think. These were all compared by myself during company meetings. At each meeting I'd have someone at the office connect 2-3 microphones to our conference room PC and then switch between them during the meetings.

Disappointed by its inability to filter background noise out (AC fan)

For remote participants of a meeting with several people in a room the audio is quite a challenge. It is difficult to follow and understand what the people are saying and who is saying it. It mumbles some time. This microphone array cleaned the audio and each conversation becomes very clear.

A cost effective solution for small to mid-sized conference rooms without too much ambient noise. I was astounded how well it worked as long as only one person at a time was speaking. This was exactly the what we needed. It also works well with Chromebox for Meetings.

Superb audio quality

Love this thing.