Best Ceiling & Array Microphones for conference rooms

A ceiling microphone buys you a clear table and costs you distance. Every doubling of the gap between mouth and capsule takes a bite out of intelligibility, and it takes the room's own noise with it - the diffuser two tiles over runs whether the meeting is important or not.

Ceiling height is therefore the first question, before any product comparison. Under about three metres an array can work well; above that the room needs either beam steering aimed at the seats or a return to table microphones. Anyone quoting a ceiling array without asking the ceiling height is quoting from a catalogue.