Spare a moment, if you can, for the humble Boundary Microphone. Think of its unsung virtues: These mics must handle speech intelligibility over a medium often fraught with horrid, horrid sound—VoIP, with its weird dropouts, and its innate potential for echo. These mics often accommodate a plenitude of people as they sit, unassumingly, on a table, doomed to ocular obscurity, unless someone like me directs your attention toward its flat façade.
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