CS-700 AV
Features
CS-700 SIP
XM-CS-700
XW-CS-700-NA
YUC-SBM/C7
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!