Test bench
DTS Synergy 5 Profile: LED spotlight 100% made in Italy. SLU test
DTS – Italian manufacturer of moving lights, known and recognized for manufacturing its products 100% in Italy and offering a 3-year warranty – responds to the trend of high-power LED profiles with its Synergy 5. Complete SoundLightUp test!
VLZ Profile, the LED profile spot by Vari-Lite. SoundLightUp test!
A stunning, powerful and very complete luminaire equipped with a 620 W white LED source and an extra wide zoom range – 8°-50° – offering everything you expect from a high-performance spot fixture with a motorized framing module. We were very eager to test this unit.
Ayrton Ghibli: becoming the standard for LED spot/profile fixtures
With its 600 W white LED source generating a powerful beam for spot and profiling effects, this very compact moving head is becoming a standard for this type of fixture.
KLANG:technologies : SoundLightUp test and new french distributor
Klang:technologies, german creator of world first binaural encoding and mixing system for ear-monitoring systems, has introduced it to the french market during the DV2 distributorship deal presentation at JTSE 2018 exhibition in Paris. Full test report here..
JB Lighting P7, white LED source and CMY color
JB Lighting P7, white LED source and CMY color Spot fully extensive SLU test. Low derating, nice choice of gobos and neat and smooth color mixing, read all about it !
Elation Artiste DaVinci, from paintbrushes to beams
Elation Artiste DaVinci, from paintbrushes to beams. Presentation of this spot, using a 270 W white LED source : compact, powerful, complete, affordable. Will it be a new source of inspiration for light designers? Read all about it!
Claypaky Scenius Spot : extensive SLU test
Claypaky Scenius Spot : extensive SLU test. Designed around new generation Osram 1400-PS Lok-it lamp, positioned at the top of the Claypaky range of spots, it delivers a powerful, uniform beam, beautiful saturated and pastel colors and a comprehensive set of effects.
“Haute Couture” LED Spot/profile Robe DL7S: complete SLU test
LED-source moving head spot/profile Robe DL7S Profile: The "Haute Couture" LED fixture. Here is the extensive SLU full test.
Martin Mac Axiom hybrid: plain, simple and efficient
The Mac Axiom Hybrid is a compact and powerful mover, delivering a potent beam, but also offering effects and features specific to spot fixtures, with a wide-range linear zoom. Let's take a closer look...
Ayrton DreamPanel Twin Combines Light and Video
With an 8 x 8 beam projection array on one side and a video display on the other, both mounted on a continuous rotation yoke, the innovative Ayrton DreamPanel Twin made its US début in November 2015 as a central component of LeRoy Bennett’s design for The Game Awards, the international video game award ceremony
YAMAHA QL5 : the independent little sister of the CL Series
The recent implementation of the ver.3 firmware is a perfect opportunity to take another look at the QL5. An intermediate level console, the QL series is directly derived from the CL console technology. Compact and lightweight, the QL5 targets both small and medium-sized applications in performing arts, events and installations.
The Ayrton MAGICDOT™-R is faster than its shadow
Despite its minimalist appearance, the Ayrton MAGICDOT™-R luminaire is a powerhouse of light and technology. Equipped with next-generation LED emitter, optics, and cooling system, this moving head projector is ready to break all records. Ayrton put 144 of them into its fabulous online video demo. Bruno Mars’ lighting designer, Cory FitzGerald, premiered 184 MAGICDOT™-R luminaires live for the performer’s festival-closing concert appearance at Rock in Rio - Las Vegas.
Robe BMFL, a blank ‘Czech’ for the future of Robe?
It took three years of Robe's R&D to develop BMFL and to meet all of its design requirements – a new 1700 W Osram short-arc lamp, a 5-55° zoom range, a new, optimized CMY color mixing system, an electronic stabilizer and only 36 kg on the scale – for an exceptional fixture. Since early January, the date of its release, 1500 projectors were sold worldwide and production for the next three months is already reserved. It has certainly hit the ground running!
Ayrton MagicBlade-R… There’s magic in the “R”
Once again Ayrton is in the spotlight with a new product presented at Prolight+Sound 2014 and it’s already been a big hit. The MagicBlade-R, a moving-head luminaire with seven LED emitters arranged in-line, may look familiar but it has little in common with its older brother, the RollaPix. This member of the RADICAL product line, has a single row of seven 67-mm diameter 4.5º collimator optics coupled with 15W RGBW Ostar Stage LEDs, famous for producing long-range tight beams.
SSL: Live 500 digital console (1)
In 2013, just before a PL+S in Frankfurt there was rumor that SSL was up to something and the announcement was like a bomb going off... SSL was presenting a live digital console for the first time. At last! The console, the result of many years of observation and experience surveys, should include everything that is the current standard for digital consoles for live performance but also incorporate new and innovative technologies.
