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This post reads awfully whiny to me. Who cares if the new bulb that's 90% more energy efficient than your old incandescent is not exactly the same color as the totally unnatural electric light you grew up with? Sure, there are some niche areas like the gallery mentioned, where the color and evenness of the light is quite important to display a work of art properly, but the bulb in your downstairs toilet not being yellow enough is not something to get worked up over.

This is as vapid and facile an argument as petrol heads complaining that electric cars don't sound right.



And even if you are… I use Wi-Fi smart bulbs that cost less than $10 each, full then as well as a white temperature adjustable from an extreme warm orange to piercing blue. 90+ CRI too.


Because there are many more issues:

- The issue is not that they are "not the same color", but that they have a low CRI which means that they make look everything bland and greyscale.

- That they use some shitty low frequency PWM to drive the light causing eye fatigue and headaches

- That they use low quality electronics causing your bulb to fail as fast as an iridescent one that costs 5 times less.

What you are saying sounds a bit like someone complaining why people want to move on from CRT monitors.




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