{"podcast":{"title":"AV SuperFriends","slug":"av-superfriends-2789935","podcast_index_feed_id":2789935,"rss_url":"https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.avsuperfriends.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/6/4/2/0642cb813541747016c3140a3186d450/otr-137-show-art-1x1.png","author":"AV SuperFriends","episode_count":266,"summary":"The AV SuperFriends are AV and eLearning nerds who embrace the challenges that come with managing audiovisual systems and resources within a higher education environment. Most of us have had similar experiences and seek to find answers in an ever-changing audiovisual world. We engage the higher education audiovisual community through podcasts, videos, panel discussions, interviews, and social media to share ideas and solve problems. Our shared experiences and your own will lead to new and creative solutions. In summary, we are going to steal all your ideas and share them with everyone.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-superfriends-2789935"},"episode":{"title":"AV SuperFriends: On Topic - Why are you doing speechlift from the can?","slug":"av-superfriends-on-topic-why-are-you-doing-speechlift-from-the-can","published_at":"2026-05-01T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-superfriends-2789935/av-superfriends-on-topic-why-are-you-doing-speechlift-from-the-can","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-superfriends-2789935","url":"https://www.avsuperfriends.com/episodes/on-topic-episode-70-why-are-you-doing-speechlift-from-the-can","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/avsuperfriends/AVSF-On-Topic-70-04172026.mp3?dest-id=2412569","summary":"Recorded April 17, 2026 In this episode, the crew turns a simple question about classroom speakers into a full-blown AV theology fight. Should small classrooms use ceiling speakers, front-wall point-source speakers, voice lift, program audio, or whatever happens to be lying around in the warehouse? Naturally, the answer is \"it depends,\" followed immediately by 35 minutes of everyone insisting their version of \"depends\" is the only sane one. The discussion gets into the real-world mess of higher ed classroom audio: even coverage, voice lift thresholds, ceiling lay-in speakers versus cans, front-of-room program speakers, accessibility systems, bad acoustics, noisy HVAC, amplifier/speaker mismatches, and the eternal question of whether \"good enough\" is actually good enough. Along the way, the panel debates physics, budget, installer convenience, student experience, and how many speakers it takes before a room becomes less of a classroom and more of an ersatz municipal warning siren. In short: if you've ever looked at a classroom audio system and wondered, \"Why did they do it that way?\" then this episode provides several answers… all of them wrong, all of them defensible, and most of them louder than necessary. Alternate show titles: It's diapers… it depends Do we still do speech just from the cans SAR method: sounds about right How many rooms do you have like this? Could they add a column in the middle? They can hear all the accounting numbers, they just can't see 'em Not the EASE software, but ease of install I had to throw them away We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperf…","meta_description":"Recorded April 17, 2026 In this episode, the crew turns a simple question about classroom speakers into a full-blown AV theology fight. Should small class…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2304,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/av-superfriends-2789935/episodes/av-superfriends-on-topic-why-are-you-doing-speechlift-from-the-can/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-superfriends-2789935/av-superfriends-on-topic-why-are-you-doing-speechlift-from-the-can.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}