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Hi,
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. (I'll make a thread in the new member forum shortly.)
I've been looking into the Source Four LED fixture, and my rep just sent me information on a next-generation Source Four LED fixture that is now on ETC's website.
ETC | Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr
No word on the MSRP, or pricing relative to the current S4 LED.
Shows just how much LEDs are evolving. Hard to know when to pull the trigger on a purchase decision.
I'm reminded of derekleffew's comment in this thread:
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. (I'll make a thread in the new member forum shortly.)
I've been looking into the Source Four LED fixture, and my rep just sent me information on a next-generation Source Four LED fixture that is now on ETC's website.
ETC | Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr
No word on the MSRP, or pricing relative to the current S4 LED.
Brightness and colour
We put a twist of lime in the luminaire and mixed it all up. ETC's x7 Color System changes the way you see LED lighting. Instead of limiting you to just three LED colors, the x7 Color System combines a balanced recipe of up to seven colors to create evocative color mixes. The Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr array takes the idea even further, with the addition of a lime-green LED emitter. Lime green increases the luminaire's lumen output in open white and lighter tints to make them brighter and livelier, better matching the color of a conventional Source Four fixture. The lime also enriches color-rendering by better marrying the red and blue ends of the color spectrum, for truer-to-life light that fills in the gaps that ordinary LEDs leave behind.
We also added more red to the x7 Color System in the Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr array. Working in unison with the lime-green emitter, the extra red means the luminaire can produce ambers, straws and pinks up to three hundred percent as bright as those from the original Source Four LED. The deeper, richer color from the Source Four LED Series 2 will evoke the strongest audience reaction to your sunset, moonlight and dramatic scenes.
Shows just how much LEDs are evolving. Hard to know when to pull the trigger on a purchase decision.
I'm reminded of derekleffew's comment in this thread:
derekleffew said:My take on LED fixtures for the stage: treat them as disposable. Tomorrow is always going to bring a brighter cheaper faster better product. So buy the cheapest one that will barely meet your needs now. If/when it breaks, replace it with something better.
OR,
Buy the Selador/ColorKinetics/ChromaQ/VLX, be completely satisfied now, and less satisfied over the next ten years when you can't afford to buy the better stuff that's come to market.
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