Bluetooth Speakerphone - eMeet M2 Max Professional Conference Speaker and 4 Directional Mics for up to 15 People Business Conference Calls High Volume Noise Reduction Daisy Chain Dongle Home Office

The shipping box from Amazon was heavier than expected with this one item in it. Unboxing the speaker phone let me know why. This is much beefier than my other speaker phone as this one is built like a tank, making it feel very durable.First let me correct a misunderstanding of what other reviews may imply. When using AI recording, some say there is no indicator that the AI is on- BUT, there is a round light surrounding the functions on the phone and when AI is ON, that light is GREEN when speaking, and when AI is OFF, that light is BLUE. That is how you can tell if AI is on or off. I can confirm that with AI on, the loudness of keyboard activity is reduced, as I tested it with my keyboard being only 12 inches from the device (and I was pressing the keys hard to make noise).The environment I am testing this on is a Windows 10 PC.I was surprised that upon connecting the device to my PC via the BRAIDED cable (USB C on the speaker phone side, for easy plugging in, and type A into my computer), it connected so quickly I couldn't believe it. Under 2 seconds for sure, maybe only 1. There was no configuration required; it became my default speaker and recorder automatically.What I like the best about this speaker phone is how loud it is. I compared this with 3 other speakers active on my PC: the speakers in my monitor, another speaker phone, and now this M2 MAX. I set all of them at 25% to play the same song. The monitor speakers were way to soft and tinny sounding (not fun to listen to for music), as one would expect. My other speaker phone sounded great (an eMeet Luna), but when this MAX came on, it blew the others out of the water; quite loud. I turned it down to 10% from 25% and it was still a little louder than the other speaker phone! And both speaker phones were absolutely clear without any distortion. I raised the MAX to 100%, and still no distortion (but I had to turn it down as it was too loud <g>).For playing music, both this MAX and the Luna were pleasant and COMFORTABLE to listen to; not so for my monitor speakers. For quality sound, eMeet speakers are very good indeed; voice is clear and sharp, easy to understand; not garbled or muffled at all.If you are a business, the M2 MAX is the go-to speaker phone for its superior volume alone. No sense making meeting attendees struggle to hear what is coming out of the device, or ask the person on the speaker to repeat themselves.As a note, when I changed the volume using the keys on my keyboard, the light on the MAX goes up and down to reflect the changes - neat; shows the connectivity.Then I tested the recording function by walking around my room and having the PC record what I was saying. Upon playing back my recording, the MAX did a good job, as it easily picked up my voice from 15 to 16 feet away, even with my back turned and I had a hoodie on my head, it picked up my voice well from that distance (of course, the mics pick up your voice louder if you are closer, but still decent from 15 feet - I did an actual measurement).To sum up, this is a quality speaker phone that I like.

I purchased this item specifically as a voice to text solution. I am hard of hearing, and one context that is extremely difficult to communicate in is group conversations. Any group conversation… People tend to talk over each other, and who is speaking changes faster than I can look for facial expression cues and face reading (as opposed to lip-reading). In these situations I can't follow the conversation without the help of technology. I use voice to text apps to help, however, the microphones I currently possess have a very short pickup range (this is a good thing), useful for when I only want voice to text from whoever holds the microphone, or wherever I am pointing said microphone. However, I needed a microphone that would have a long distance and 360 degree sound pickup range, that could inteligently filter out background noise and background chatter. Conference microphones seemed to fit the bill, but I knew from what I was reading that they would only work for small tables. I kept looking for something that could work flexibly for small tables as well as larger tables.I saw a comment on a different emeet product that this unit, the emeet 220 was coming out soon and that it would allow for daisy chaining two units together. I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me a manual, mind you, this was before the product was released, I was really impressed that they were willing to do that. Looking through the manual I decided this product was worth a shot considering it's flexibility and AI features.Emeet has a different product, the N1 which has it's own software and cloud storage and processing capabilities to do voice to text including labeling speakers as in "[name] [message]" automatically. It looked cool, but I am subscription adverse, and the speaker labeling only works with two speakers, and would require training for each session. I already have a couple voice to text solution that I am comfortable using and didn't really want to deal with hardware that was tied into a subscription based service. Also, I felt that with this new unit, the hardware and AI would probably have newer/more refinements.I recieved the E Meet 220 the evening before a local TedX Talk in my city. I decided to take it with me and baptize it by fire. I used it during lunch break, they had a huge conference hall with many tables, easily 20+ tables there were easily in excess of 400 attendees. So this was a very challenging environment for any microphone, and I have to say, I was really impressed with the emeet 220. It picked up people impressively well around my large 8' circular table. I was only able to use one that day, I wasn't able to turn one unit on for some reason, I'm not sure why, but even then, it worked impressively well. I had mounted it right on top of a glass vase that had nothing but rocks in it. I was able to participate in a group conversation in that type of environment for the first time in my life. Prior to that, I had only ever been able to hold one on one conversations in noisy environments like that. The AI on these microphones did an exceptional job of massaging the audio input making it possible for the voice to text applications I use to translate the speech to text much more accurately. I have since used it during a potluck with extended (chosen) family. My house has a very large living room, and terrible acoustics. I placed the two units as centrally in the living room as I could, (picture shown) and I was able to pick up everybody in the room very well. I was especially impressed that it continued to work well even when someone was talking squarely in between the two units, I was worried that there might be duplication of audio or strange audio effects, but the voice to text software showed no such effect. I will have to record audio in the future to verify this, but so far it's been a dream to have access to group conversation, and relatively pain-free since I don't have to try to impose one speaker at a time rules when using the other microphones I have that only really work on one person at a time. I was very impressed at the Bluetooth connection. I was on the other side of the room as the transmitting Bluetooth Emeet 220, and did not notice any connection drops. That being said, I probably wouldn't know if it was the Emeet or if it was the voice to text app or the internet connectivity if it did happen. So, more testing is upcoming, but first impressions have been stellar.I have yet to test the conferencing features, but I will update this review once I've had the opportunity to do so.