Great review as always. Looks very enticing and convenient as heck! However The price per watt hour is way too high. I understand they have to reduce the power to make the battery last but $1200 for 60W is a bit much.
Daryl, if possible, I'd love to see a shootout between this and the Chauvet ILS 60. My use case is a little different, I use battery powered pars and both tubes for bands I work with. I use Di-Fi for the pars, and wireless dmx for the tubes, so I could go either way with regard to Jmaz or Chauvet.
Hey Daryl! Love your videos. I have a quick question. I have a bunch of Rockville Par 50s which have dmx capability but i think would need to be hooked up via a soundswitch transmitter like the one in this video, and separate wireless recievers right? I am also hoping to get the both titan tubes and integrate them all together, which i know have wireless dmx. Would I need two separate transmitters (one to address the titan tubes and one to address the rockville lights) or could I do all of that with one transmitter? Lastly which transmitter/receivers do you recommend? I know thats a lot, any insight is deeply appreciated!! Thanks
The Rockville Pars seem to have the normal wireless dmx protocol built-in, so a normal wireless dmx transmitter should work! I like these amzn.to/3POdsa0
I love JMAZ because they try to be innovative, but…. I bought a Versa flex a year ago and it fell apart after a dozen gigs. Sold it and bought a gig bar ILS, like 90% of wedding DJs. It’s going to be the same for this mover: it’ll work great for a while then it’ll start to glitch, pieces will fall off, the buttons with stick, and some things will break inside. They are just not built to the same standards as Chauvet. You will regret not buying the ILS Free spot 60. Same MSRP, 70watt, and built to Chauvet standards. It DOES have the built-in D-Fi transceiver, you should edit your video. The JMAZ fixture is completely overpriced to compete with Chauvet.
I said that it has the d fi transceiver, I just said that I don’t want two transmitters to control my lights. I wish the chauvet just accepted normal wireless dmx. Sorry about your experiences!
@@DJDarylBennettI’m confused by your reply. The ILS spot 60 does come with built-in dFi transceiver yet in the video you make the point of saying it’s a pain to plug in an extra plug (which is fair for other fixtures, but untrue for the Spot60) and dFi does transmits DMX so you can use a normal DMX controller. One controller for all your lights. That’s what I do. I have both lighting S4’s, IR4’s, ape labs, AND a gigbar move ILS AND spot60 ILS, all controlled with one single DMX controller (ADJ MyDMX Go). Love your RU-vid content, but this video is very misleading, the Chauvet Spot60 ILS is arguably far superior to the JMAZ.
@@Realdjheisenberg D-Fi is a different protocol from normal wireless DMX (chinly, donner, built-in both lighting). So to control a free spot and leverage the built-in wireless DMX functionality, One would need a separate D-Fi transmitter to control just the freespots, and another transmitter to control my both lighting stuff. I know Chauvet does that to tie you to their ecosystem, but it alienates a lot of users too.
@@DJDarylBennett I see what you're saying, but still I do control everything with one DMX controller. Dmx controller out to Ape labs connect, out to donner, all controlling my ape labs and gig bar move and moving spots, all wirelessly, only one controller. DJ Peck posted a video on that set up, a while ago, too. It's admittedly very clunky but it works... And yes a "uniformed wireless system" would be great, but no manufacturer has any incentive to do this, unfortunately. They all spent a lot of R&D money to develop their own wireless systems. What you are saying is another misleading comment by the way: the chinly/donner transceivers are not DMX either, just like the dFi ecosystem. None of them are "normal wireless DMX". All of those systems are just "wireless transmission devices" using a narrow band around the same 2.4gHz frequency. There is no such thing as a "normal wireless DMX". DMX is a sequence of instructions. Like I said before, I'm a big fan of your "no-nonsense" approach to honest reviews, but if you want to grow more influential, you have to be more accurate in what you say, especially the technical stuff. That's how you will establish yourself as a reference in the field :)
@@Realdjheisenberg I haven't said anything inaccurate or misleading. DMX is a protocol. There's various types of wireless transmission systems to get the DMX signal from point A to point B, converting the signal to radio waves. The general usage of "wireless dmx" is referencing the transmission layer, not the contents of what is being broadcast. I have never heard anyone do so until your comment Many (if not all) of the wireless transmission systems operate on the 2.4gHz band but aren't compatible with each other (CRMX, W-DMX, D-Fi). There's a "normal wireless DMX" that doesn't really have a name, but many fixtures have it built-in, and they are all compatible with each other. Both Lighting manuals reference it as the Guangzhou Protocol, most companies just call it "wireless DMX".