Fixture review: The Claypaky Sinfonya Profile 600
This review originally appeared in PLSN.
Author’s note: this article is written based on specifications and video footage, and I have not physically seen the fixture. Further, as of the time of this writing, the user manual for this fixture is incomplete, so several aspects of features and fixtu...
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