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>>pictur+(OP)
Somewhat off topic, but I bought a Philips Hue system for my house in August since the incandescent ban has made it difficult to find light bulbs. I spent some time getting the colors close to matching my incandescents with a light meter, set up some automations, etc. I could definitely tell they were LEDs (I think their R9 values are low), but they seemed... ok? I don't know, I still wasn't really loving it, but they were better than some other LEDs I had tried in the past. And some of the automations seemed legitimately useful.

Well, I got 4 ocular migraines in less than 3 days. Packed them all up and sent them back. If anyone has recommendations for LEDs that don't trigger migraines let me know. Or else I guess I'm buying a lifetime supply of incandescents and a storage unit for lightbulbs /s.

Honestly, the whole thing sort of seems like focusing on the wrong things. I've never owned a car, am vegetarian, have never lived in more than 1000 sq ft as an adult, and walk/take public transit in NYC daily. Not sure the 2 incandescent lightbulbs I use in my living room are really causing climate change.

>>mtalan+1h
Color Rendering Index (CRI) is the metric you care about. 95% is not good enough for the discerning user.

>>callal+WD
They mentioned R9, they know what CRI is. And more importantly to your advice, a bad R9 is common with LEDs but R9 is not used in the calculation of the overall percent.