Nice notes, thank you. We are a volunteer none profit theater and though it would be great to buy some of the more expensive lights I don't see it happening. I'm stuck really because I need to find some - compromise performance / price - units up to get our (older) lighting guys and directors to buy into the whole modern lighting thing. It's a bootstrapping process.
Sadly, there's a very
clear line of more expensive technology that you have to cross to get the better looking
LED emitters. The cheaper fixtures have really low
CRI scores which means their white is not good, the pastels you want for Theater are inaccurate, and the saturated colors are too pure and have that overly digital unnatural look... Like cheap blue
LED Christmas lights. Every year, that
line is getting cheaper to cross so don't give up hope.
I'll be taking a look at the budget
LED options at
LDI next month and report on them in our Convention forum. I will start a "What do you want to know about?" thread in the
LDI 2019 sub- forum in a week or two. So keep your eyes on the discussion there and if you have any questions post them over there or
send them direct to me.
@Ford, if you have a minute, I would love to hear a few comments about the differences in
LED technology and what sets the better class of
LED fixtures (like your Chauvet Ovation) apart from the DJ class. Setting aside
build quality, QC, and warranty... what is it we are paying for that visually makes such a difference?