Acoustical Society of America
Professional audio

Conference and discussion systems

Discussion systems succeed or fail on microphone management: how many are live, who has priority, and whether the room is quiet enough for any of it to work.

Conference room with two long timber tables, a gooseneck microphone and bottle at each place, and a screen at the far end
Jalandhar Police Board Room — a microphone at every delegate position.

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We supply and commission conference and discussion systems for boardrooms, council chambers, training rooms and conference halls — including the acoustic work that makes them intelligible, which is usually where the real difference lies.

What a system includes

  • Chairman and delegate units, wired or wireless, with priority and request-to-speak.
  • Automatic microphone mixing, so only live microphones are open.
  • Reinforcement designed to avoid feedback at usable levels.
  • Recording and, where needed, transcription feeds.
  • Video conferencing, displays or projection, tied into the same control.
  • Interpretation channels where the meetings require them.

The room underneath it

Reverberation held to a speech target, background noise kept low, and privacy from the corridor — without these, better microphones only amplify the problem.

Meeting room with a long white table, mesh chairs and a display mounted on timber panelling, glazed on two sides
Satia Corporate Office — a glazed meeting room, treated for speech.

Handover

Systems are handed over with presets for the usual meeting types and training for the staff who run the room.

Tell us the room

Send dimensions and intended use. You get back an indicative acoustic treatment, a systems outline and a budget range.