HP Poly Trio 8300/8800 Expansion Microphones

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The HP Poly Trio 8300/8800 Expansion Microphones are a sensible “fill in the room” add-on if you’re regularly fighting for coverage in meeting spaces. For £158.72 ex-VAT, the value is less about fancy audio quality and more about practical outcomes: clearer pickup across the table, fewer “can you speak closer?” moments, and better inclusion for people seated slightly off-axis or farther from the base unit. In a typical mid-size boardroom or training room where people talk from different sides, this kind of expansion usually pays back fast in less rework and fewer awkward meetings.

That said, I wouldn’t buy these if your meeting rooms are small or already sit the Trio base centrally with everyone fairly close—then you may just be paying for coverage you won’t use. Also, if your main issue is background noise (HVAC, open-plan chatter, echo), extra mics won’t fix the acoustics; you’d get more improvement from room treatment or basic noise control. Overall: buy if you need wider, more even voice capture for Trio 8300/8800 deployments; skip if coverage is already fine or the real problem is the room environment rather than microphone reach.