It's about double the price with shipping ($30). I can't complain about my $1 microphone which has worked well for the past 5 years and the $5 speakers :)
I also find the USB audio devices to be a pain because you have to toggle between regular audio and USB and.... However, I would like to see an intercom system for the same price range :) I don't know why some of them are so expensive when it comes to VoIP... Bruce > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:42:48 -0500 > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] A nifty little handsfree for your PC > > Duane wrote: > > Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > >> Folks, > >> > >> Ed Guy turned me on to these: > >> > >> http://www.mvox.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2 > >> > >> It's basically a really inexpensive little handsfree unit for your > >> PC. Really great for the money. > > > > Still suffers the problem off all USB voip devices, you still > > need a PC turned on all the time to use them :) > > No arguments here. It's not a panacea by any means, but for $15 it does one > heck of a good job of delivering a small, light, good-sounding handsfree > unit. > > > Not to mention all the fun and games of getting the computer > > to send audio to 1 device and yada yada... > > I would say that the sound system in PCs has never worked well with > telephony. A big problem is that PC microphones and DSPs aren't tuned for > the kind of audio a DS0 is desiged for. I would say this is part of the > magic of Skype: they took this into account and engineered their codecs to > be better aligned with typical PC audio systems. I think that's why this > little beastie makes me smile; I don't find myself having to tweak the > microphone gain controls to get things sounding right. It pretty much does > what is needed; when I plug it in it is pretty much good to go. > > This is a $15 peripheral, so it needs to be evaluated in that context. > > Jim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________
