MXL Mics USB Microphone (MXL AC-360-Z)

Purchase 3 units to install in a temporary Zoom room with capacity of 25-30 people. It was plug and play for the Zoom Room App running on MAC-MINI.Got very positive feedback from people joining remotely. They confirmed a clear and high quality soundThe cable itself are a bit short and had to use 6ft extender to place units on a U-shape table. Nevertheless the quality of sound was good.This unit contains a micrhopone only. I wish it also have embedded speaker.

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!Important: This device presents four individual AC-404 microphones to your computer when plugged into USB. So if you have a need to individually record four simultaneous audio streams (one from each direction) this is a GREAT microphone. If you're expecting to have a single audio feed (which most apps besides Zoom Rooms would expect) you'll want some other microphone.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.