[PLUG-AV] Audio options.

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:10:34AM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
[...]
> For the speaker each week, we're looking at:
> * One Shure SLX (L4 freq) Instrument pack - $600
> * One Countryman Head-mounted mic - $525
> 
> For the audience mic:
> * One Shure SLX (L4 freq) receiver and SM58: $680

Well, the nice thing is that Kosmic has stock of this kind of stuff, and
we could pick this up at an hour's notice. We're also still interested
in a portable PA amplified speaker, hopefully a little less scratchy
than my old ghetto blaster.

Over $1000 for a single channel of wireless audio routing, though... does
seem a bit gold-plated power-cord-y. Does anyone have an example of a
comparable setup?

With this as the comparison, we can afford to spend a few hundred dollars
to trial an alternative system for one or more speakers or one or more
audience mikes.

Traditional FM stage mikes, for example? Bluetooth class 1? DECT?
Anything producing a normal mixable audio signal in the form of XLR or
audio jack at line in or microphone levels.

Does anyone have some handy SingStar wireless USB microphones? They
might show up in lsusb as simple USB audio devices, ID 1415:0020.

James - I'd like to have a test audio loopback on the new laptops,
can they pass through audio from such a device (or a simple microphone)
through Pulseaudio with no significant latency? (Someone else might have
that setup already)

[...]
> Can I get a few *nods* from people here that we should proceed like this
> - with the presenter wireless headset and mic now for $1,125 -  or some
> input with alternate suggestions/recommendations?

I can't quite bring myself to nod yet. It's nice to have the high end
equipment as a fallback, but we're losing out on the functionality of
the extra audio channel or two, and having a value-for-money system that
it would make sense to build again.

Nick.

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