On 09/28/2011 03:04 AM, Tim St. Pierre wrote:
Even if you did have a phone that could do it, you would have to design a completely different handset with high end audio components to hear any difference. You would certainly need a better mic and earpiece, but they don't need to be very expensive parts to get pretty good results, and making them fit the existing mouldings is unlikely to be that hard. The killer would be if the plastic moulding has a mass of resonances. You might need to re-engineer the entire thing in that case. Having said that, I can see an application for a hardware "phone" that has balanced line in and out connections, so you could use it for broadcast applications. This could replace all the hybrids you normally have in an audio control room, and allow for full-quality phone links if both sides support it. There are video conferencing platforms which are already like that.
Steve