Video Sound Collaboration Systems for Huddle Rooms

Georgia Military College has been using the CS-700 for the past 2 years in both our classrooms and in our conference rooms and are adding 18 more this year. the 120 degree camera is amazing, sharp clear picture with real high def clarity. the speakers in this are world class, but the Echo canceling microphone array that part is just amazing. we recently have just installed our first wireless extension mic to the cs-700 and again i was wowed. even better then this product itself is the support behind it, my first experience was following an email that I sent in via the web site, I expected that some time in 48 hours some one would send me back and e-mail, but that was not at all what happened, Joe called me up from there U.S. based office and talked to me for about an 40 minutes about the product and when more would be shipped as there was a shortage of them at that time, he then emailed me and gave me his contact info in case I needed anything else. my second call I made was to the customer support number , I waited about 3 minutes on hold and got some one else from the same office as Joe, who walked me thru the minor issue that I was having caused by a dip switch in the wrong position on the extension mic and was happy to discus there products capabilities and what my project plans were for them. we chatted for 45 minutes. Yamaha has just built a relationship with me as a customer that will last. I spent a good 20 minutes of my time writing up this review for a reason, they have earned it, try out the CS-700 and the extension mics, you will not be disappointed,

As an A/V engineer I was tasked to come up with low cost solutions to get K-12 and Higher Education classrooms online and ready to teach remotely for social distancing. I was sent the CS-700 as a demo. by combining a series of mounts together I was able to come up with a way to take this bar and mount it above the projector that was typically already in these various classrooms. From there we did a series of tests to see how well the video and audio would work with various VTC software. We discovered that this bar worked perfectly in the small to medium size classrooms there the camera could remain fixed in one shot. We found that mounting it high eliminated glare on white boards so students could see what a teacher/professor was writing as long as they used new black markers. The sound picked up clear for the instructor even if they walked behind the camera. This was the absolute perfect solution that no other all in one solution could provide. I give it 5 stars +++ Thank you to Greg Carswell with Yamaha for all he did to support me with this.

The Yamaha CS 700 is a great AV Sound bar that has an excellent camera but where is stands out with the Audio. If you can't hear in a video conference the call is worthless or distracting. The microphone pick up great for a small to medium sized conference room. The wireless microphone allows this to work great in Medium sized rooms. The Sip integration removes the need for a phone in these rooms.Yamaha does it again.

The CS700 has great optics but the audio portion is often missed in AV sound bars. If the video is good but the audio is bad the Video meeting is useless. Yamaha has made the the ideal sound bar system for small to medium rooms and not missed a beat.

The sound and picture quality is very impressive for such a compact piece of kit. The business is very happy with this purchase. Certainly a contender against the big spend AV solutions which are on the market.

We bought two of these video sound bars for our company's conference room. They've worked great for our client Zoom calls!