The AV SuperFriends discuss design, installation, and support of classroom and commercial AV integrations.
AV SuperFriends: On Topic
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The AV SuperFriends discuss design, installation, and support of classroom and commercial AV integrations.
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Recent Episodes
July 1, 2026
73: It Only 3/4s of the Way Plays Nice Together
Recorded June 12, 2026<br /><br />In this Fourth of July–flavored episode of On Topic, the panel celebrates America’s birthday the only way they know how: by declaring independence from the worst habits in higher ed AV.<br /><br />This month’s grievances include single-vendor ecosystem lock-in, consultant-led designs that ignore campus standards, isolated “AV network islands,” overcomplicated touch panels, mystery DSP files, proprietary cables, terrible display home screens, and every “professional” product that somehow requires a cloud account just to configure the thing.<br /><br />Along the way, the panel debates automation versus user control, whether classrooms really need touch panels at all, and why interoperability always seems to mean “mostly works, as long as you bought everything from us.”<br /><br />It’s patriotic, petty, and painfully familiar: a fireworks show of AV complaints aimed directly at the systems, specs, and design habits we should have dumped into the harbor years ago.<br /><br />Alternate show titles:<br /><ul><li>We might be making headway</li><li>The future of buildings</li><li>No new islands!</li><li>At least a ferry service</li><li>Press to start</li><li>Blank and Freeze</li><li>I want to agree with you, but…</li><li>Sometimes people plug in things they don’t want to see</li><li>No middle ground</li></ul><br />We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com<br /><br />▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀<br />► Website: <a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com</a><br />► Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends</a><br />► LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends</a><br />► YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends</a><br />► Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social</a><br />► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com<br />► RSS: <a href="https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss</a><br /><br />Donate to AVSF: <a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support</a><br />
June 1, 2026
72: We Won’t Do Anything Until That Form Is Filled Out
AV SuperFriends: On Topic - We won’t do anything until that form is filled out<br /><br />Recorded May 15, 2026<br /><br />This episode of On Topic gets into the glamorous, soul-polishing world of how AV projects actually begin, which is apparently somewhere between a formal intake form, a support ticket that got out of hand, a hallway ambush, and someone discovering the room needs power, asbestos abatement, and lots of opinions.<br /><br />The panel compares how different campuses define and initiate projects, from TeamDynamix and ServiceNow workflows to informal emails, consultation requests, facilities handoffs, and the dreaded “this was supposed to be a simple fix” scenario. A big theme is the messy boundary between support ticket, request, incident, problem, and project, especially when aging systems, construction needs, or money get involved.<br /><br />They also get into the joys and failures of project management platforms, Project, Planner, Smartsheet, TeamDynamix, ServiceNow, and the eternal higher-ed struggle of trying to force real work, real communication, and real accountability into software that was clearly designed by people who have never been asked do any of that.<br /><br />In short: projects should start with clear scope, timelines, goals, funding, stakeholders, and process. In reality, they start with an email that says, “quick question,” and end with everyone arguing over whether it was ever a project in the first place.<br /><br />Alternate show titles:<ul><li>Is this directed to me?</li><li>Wow, that’s big!</li><li>I don’t touch tickets</li><li>What if I email you?</li><li>Hey, we’re going to do this thing</li><li>We’ll have the meeting eventually</li><li>Facilities doesn’t do power</li><li>Requires a state employee to inspect the electrician</li><li>We get requests every which way from Sunday</li><li>We want to drive everybody to a ticket</li><li>Rapid fire from wherever-the-hell-it-came-from</li><li>That means it’s approved and no one wants to do that sh*t</li><li>I don’t do projects, I do stories and epics</li></ul><br />We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com <br /><br />▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀<br />► Website:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGtZbEhIN3VROENWZGxiZjlKaUpQc2Q0YWtEd3xBQ3Jtc0ttcFZ1ZjBqQjVuOXgyTTREZ21tU1ZPdWpOeG9qb0lPaGlPSHJKTFRZdWFXWXZ5TTFMRENsWUsyeHFxY3NJSEdHSXkzZ25RSWRFU1hTTlFVY0NYT25IdlBmNXNSRkhSLTNFOHVJbW1zVWtkYUJGRmxPYw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fobdmpod.com%2F&v=pOS2b_raTIw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a><a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com</a><br />► Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends</a><br />► LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends</a><br />► YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends</a><br />► Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social</a><br />► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com<br />► RSS: <a href="https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss</a><br /><br />Donate to AVSF: <a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support</a><br />
May 1, 2026
70: Why Are You Doing Speechlift from the Can?
AV SuperFriends: On Topic<br />Why are you doing speechlift from the can?<br /><br />Recorded April 17, 2026<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Alternate show titles:<br /><ul><li>It’s diapers… it depends</li><li>Do we still do speech just from the cans</li><li>SAR method: sounds about right</li><li>How many rooms do you have like this?</li><li>Could they add a column in the middle?</li><li>They can hear all the accounting numbers, they just can’t see ‘em</li><li>Not the EASE software, but ease of install</li><li>I had to throw them away</li></ul><br />We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to <i>everything </i>we record over at AVSuperFriends.com <br /><br />▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀<br />► Website:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGtZbEhIN3VROENWZGxiZjlKaUpQc2Q0YWtEd3xBQ3Jtc0ttcFZ1ZjBqQjVuOXgyTTREZ21tU1ZPdWpOeG9qb0lPaGlPSHJKTFRZdWFXWXZ5TTFMRENsWUsyeHFxY3NJSEdHSXkzZ25RSWRFU1hTTlFVY0NYT25IdlBmNXNSRkhSLTNFOHVJbW1zVWtkYUJGRmxPYw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fobdmpod.com%2F&v=pOS2b_raTIw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a><a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com</a><br />► Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends</a><br />► LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends</a><br />► YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends</a><br />► Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social</a><br />► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com<br />► RSS: <a href="https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss</a><br /><br />Donate to AVSF: <a href="https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support</a>
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