asianexpress

Situation: Our startup has two offices and we occasionally need to have meetings between the two (with another one or two people from another location). Google Hangout would suffice if not for the audio situation -- you'd have to have everyone crowd around the mic for it to work properly and this doesn't work well (comfortably) if you have about 15 people in a room. We have projectors so visuals aren't really an issue.

Is there a solution such that someone could talk from any part of the conference room such that the people on the other side will hear it properly? Goal is for it to be reasonably priced and easy to set up? Perhaps < $1,000? (if a really great solution exists for a little more, that's okay)

If there's a reasonable external mic (+accessories) setup we can use with a laptop and Google Hangout, that would be fine as well.

Another attempt that failed was using Gotomeeting and dialing in on a Polycom Soundstation -- people had to be close to the SoundStation for it to work properly.