Products · AV & accessories
The half of a room nobody quotes for.
Audio, switching, mounting and control — the parts of a meeting room, auditorium or event space that decide whether the display in it is usable, and the parts most often left out of a specification until installation day.
This catalogue lists what Noble supplies and how it is specified. It carries no prices, no stock or availability position, no ratings or reviews, and no manufacturer specifications — everything technical is confirmed against the requirement at quotation, because a published figure nobody has verified is a figure somebody will procure against.
What this category is for
Audio is what people notice. A room with an excellent display and poor microphone coverage is judged as a bad room, and coverage is a function of ceiling height, seating layout and surfaces rather than of microphone count.
Mounting and cabling are the other quiet determinant. A display at the wrong height, a camera fighting a window, or a cable route that does not exist will each defeat good equipment, and all three are decided by the building rather than by the product.
What it covers
Product types rather than part numbers. The type is the decision; the model follows from the requirement and is confirmed at quotation.
Microphones, speakers and processing
Ceiling, table and wireless microphones with the processing that makes a room intelligible to people who are not in it.
Switching and distribution
Matrix switching, extenders and distribution over network, for rooms with more than one source or more than one screen.
Control surfaces
A panel that starts the room and does nothing else confusing — the difference between a room people book and a room people avoid.
Mounts, trolleys and cabling
Wall and ceiling mounts, mobile trolleys, floor boxes and the cable runs that were not in the drawing.
What decides the specification
The questions a quotation is built from. Answering these is usually faster than sending a part number, and it catches the requirement a part number would have got wrong.
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The room, acoustically
Ceiling height, hard surfaces, glass and the noise from the air conditioning. All four decide microphone type and placement.
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How many sources and screens
One laptop and one display needs no matrix. Two of either does, and it should be decided before the walls are closed.
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Whether anyone operates it
A room used by staff daily and an auditorium run by a technician are different designs with different control surfaces.
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What the building allows
Mounting points, containment, floor boxes and where power exists. This is where AV specifications most often meet reality.
The work around it
Hardware arrives configured, installed and supported, or it arrives in a box. These are the services that make the difference.
Brand and model names are used descriptively where a requirement names one. All marks belong to their owners.
Send the requirement.
A quantity, an environment and what it has to connect to is enough to start. Noble quotes against the requirement rather than from a price list, and says where a specification will not do what it is being asked to do.