Semi Professional and Professional Sound Lighting and Video Systems
Semi Professional and Professional Sound Lighting and Video Systems
When it comes to investing in a sound systems, lighting system or video system, it’s hardly surprising that most people haven’t a clue where to start looking.
Sound Systems
With sound systems alone, there is an estimated eight to ten thousand individual sound products available in the UK alone. Most of which are now aimed at the semi-professional and professional market, which means for most of us there is too much choice. At least in the professional market place there are noticeable leading brands, like D&B Audio, L Acoustic, Midas, Yamaha, DigiDesign and QSC. But if your budget can not handle a minimum of ten thousand pounds just to purchase a basic set of professional loudspeakers, then you are stuck in the semi professional market.
Its not all doom and gloom, many of the leading manufactures of professional sound equipment, have started to introduce mid range equipment. So you can at least have affordable high quality mid range sound system. It’s more that there are so many other manufactures all fighting for the same space. Which means unless you have a clear knowledge of all the available products on the market, it can feel a little overwhelming.
With so many sound manufactures, all fighting for space in the semi-professional and professional sound market, we at Technical Advice thought it was about time someone tried to help clear up the confusion and make it easier for everyone to decide which sound products would be best for there individual needs. Which is why we lunched www.technicalcomparison.co.uk, a single place to compare, read reviews and discuss sound products. Although Technical Comparison was only lunched this year, there are already six thousand products available to compare and review. Professional sound engineers, venue engineers and even church engineers are writing views about the products they use and recommend, which makes it allot easier and faster to make a discussion about the type of sound product you are looking to invest in.
Lighting Equipment
Like sound products in the semi professional to professional market, there is an estimated four to six thousand individual lighting products on the market today. With a massive boost in LED technology, there are companies popping up left right and centre lunching high end LED lighting fixtures. However even with LED technology moving so fast, there are professional LED fixtures and there are professional LED fixtures. Sifting through the steady increase of products in the professional lighting market can be tricky and a costly business.
Now this is not to say that some of the smaller manufactures of lighting products are not to be trusted, there are many semi professional lighting products that perform just as well and reliably and some of the high end professional products at almost a quarter of there prices.
Take LED effect panel manufacturer Thomas, using their Pixal Line as an example, there are companies like ShowTech that also have similar products. Even when you compare basic effect you may be thinking why pay so much more for a Pixel Line when the ShowTech product appears to do the same, this is where you do pay for what you get. The problem is to know which products are good and which products are just a waste of money. For the record, I am not saying the ShowTech products are not any good. I just them as an example
One of the new functions www.technicalcomparison.co.uk have lunched, is a forum for semi professional and professional sound lighting and video engineers. The forum enables users to discuss and recommend different sound lighting and video products for any given situation. There are already several professional engineers acting as moderators for the forum, to insure information that is given is not misleading.
Video Systems
When compared to sound and lighting equipment, video products are relatively low on numbers, between three thousand to five thousand individual video products are available to the semi professional and professional market. Which might make it seem like the video market is still under control, however with digital technology being so affordable; many of the low end manufactures are now able to push products into the semi professional and professional market places. The biggest problem now facing video engineers is product reliability.
There used to be a very clear line when it came to domestic video products and semi professional and professional video products. There was also a very clear difference in price. When it comes to choosing a video camera for example, you can now buy a high definition 1080p video camera from four hundred pounds all the way up to one hundred thousand pounds, and there are many video camera between. This although giving you a greater choice also makes it harder to know if the product you are investing in will not only perform but also be reliable.
To make things easier, www.technicalcomparison.co.uk have a great function that enables you to view all the main product specifications, which makes it easier for you to see at a glance which product is best suited to your need. That and the product rating and reviews all help to enforce your discussion and give you the confidence you need.
About the Author
Technical Comparison is the place for professionals to compare and review sound systems, professional video and lighting equipment. www.technicalcomparison.co.uk
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