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0 pointsIshKebab3y ago0 comments

You're right that the colour temperature isn't the whole story - it's a single number trying to represent a spectrum which is a line graph. So you can have wildly different spectra with the same CRI.

But even so, good LEDs are perfectly fine. Don't assume that all LEDs are crap because you bought one cheap set and they weren't very good.

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cal853y ago

I have bought almost exclusively LED bulbs over the last 10-15 years. As a nerd, I always look fairly carefully at the specs, and I choose good ones. If, when I buy off-brand halogens one time without really looking into the technical details and it's like "Oh yeah, this is how artificial light is supposed to look", then that's a problem with LEDs, not with me not looking hard enough for good ones, because I look much harder than a typical consumer would.

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