Not being a laptop owner I might be talking nonsenses here LOL. However if possible try disabling both webcams for a while and listen to the sound quality. This will help define the issue perhaps. Then enable just one, disable it and enable the other. A pain of course but if it helps pinpoint the issue it might be worth the effort. We find with Skype it is great but on the odd occasion a webcam will affect the speech causing garble chatting. Closing the webcams seems to fix it. Generally this is the same people each time - and of course the problem MUST be on our computers because they tell us so. On the issue of echo we have not had that when talking to people with built in mics on laptops. On a desktop with a standalone mic in front of the speakers it can become bedlam

In 2005, after my FiL moved in with us after the death of my MiL, we decided that we could afford to move. We really needed a second bathroom with an advanced elder living with us. What we learned is that we fuel each other in the "gotta see everything" frenzy. It was our first house-hunting as a couple, since I was already a homeowner when we met. It wasn't so much "Falling in Love" with a home that got us in trouble, it was the feeling of needing to read the listing for all the homes that met our objectives, to see the ones that we had an interest in, and to not miss out on a chance to bid on any of them if we wanted to do so. It became obsessive. Him upstairs on his desktop computer, me downstairs on my laptop, hollering back and forth about the listings. I expected him to be a moderating force for me, but he really made me worse. We found a nice home with a finished basement for him and an in-ground pool for me and wrote an offer. There was a second offer, and after a weekend of thinking that we had prevailed, we learned that the seller's agent had misunderstood and that the seller had signed the other offer. It turns out that this was a good thing for us for a couple of reasons. Then we wrote an offer on a house that had good and bad points. Next morning I was on the phone to the city to see if my realtor was right that I could put up a privacy fence, or if I had read the ordinance correctly and I could not put up a privacy fence. I was right. Called realtor, and was able to stop her before she tendered our offer. When we saw the back yard of the house we live in now,(before going in to tour) we got excited. Wow, perfect yard for our dogs, very private with the hedges. Once inside, loved the size of the MBR, the Eat-in Kitchen. It was almost Love, definitely was "Make An Offer!" I am with BumbleBeez about the hunt and the kill. I get into an intense focus where finding the home is all I want to do. Once I find it, gotta have it. No bargaining for me, I have to offer pretty much the asking price or I am afraid I will lose it. Same thing happened a few months ago when we decided it was time to replace my 10 year-old car. Looked every day until we found what we wanted. Researched price, found it competitive, offered asking price (but did insist on one repair). We are not good shoppers. I do not know if we could walk away from a big purchase if we needed to do so because of a problem.

GU10 base lamps were developed to allow a small low voltage halogen reflector lamp called an MR16 to be used in a line voltage fixture which lowered the light output but reduced the cost since there was no built-in transformer. They are therefore sometimes used in recessed and track fixtures in place of halogen low voltage MR16 and line voltage PAR20 lamps. There are now GU10 base line voltage lamps that are LED and there are even low voltage MR16 lamps with an integral transformer built into a GU10 base. GU10 base lamps are becoming more common in the big box stores because they are cheap. If you want better fixtures and more lamping choices it has always been necessary to buy from an electrical supply house.

Houzz has once again shown us who they are. It's time we believed them. This nonsense can only be for the purpose of creating a flurry of activity to boost their IPO of an essentially valueless company. This place was great. A lot of folks helped me, and I'd like to think I helped a few folks here and there; but I patently refuse to function as unpaid customer service for this fiasco that is Houzz. If you all are smart, you will remove any identifiable information from this website - they have proven untrustworthy.