get better led bulbs.
i honestly dont understand how people become so fixated on minutæ. my led bulbs look great, and i’ve never thought “wow i really miss inefficient, energy-wasting, hot, single-colour bulbs from 30 years ago”
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i honestly dont understand how people become so fixated on minutæ. my led bulbs look great, and i’ve never thought “wow i really miss inefficient, energy-wasting, hot, single-colour bulbs from 30 years ago”
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Incandescent light isn't single-color, it's all of them. Evidently that matters to some people. Things that don't matter to you might legitimately matter to other people.
> A reference source, such as blackbody radiation, is defined as having a CRI of 100. This is why incandescent lamps have that rating, as they are, in effect, almost blackbody radiators.[24][25] The best possible faithfulness to a reference is specified by CRI = 100, while the very poorest is specified by a CRI below zero.
I believe the best non-incandescent bulb I've seen had a CRI of 92, but (IIRC) most bulbs don't list a number (so can be assumed to be mediocre). I don't know if it's gotten better, because I haven't deep-dived into it for a few years.
You can have a reasonably high CRI for the main 8 elements, and still have very little red, which is something humans are quite sensitive to in terms of perceived light quality. It's not hard to find R9 ratings of >90 in LEDs, but you're into high end LEDs that cost quite a bit more (some of the really high end ones are $30/bulb in small quantities), and the efficiency is somewhat less (lumens per watt), because putting energy into red is less effective than "putting it all in green" with how human eyes work.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Emission-spectra-of-diff...