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Originally Posted by zakthor

We have 12 recessed lights in the kitchen so it is a bunch of juice and heat to use halogens. But we've no AC.

You might want to ask a local soraa rep if you can get a free sample to try. He gave me a 2700 and a 3000. Spouse gave the 3000/60 degree the big thumbs up.

Problem is the bulbs are $40 each... The light is pretty great, they dim well and they're much more durable than halogen so it might pencil out eventually.

I had no idea bulb color rendering could vary so dramatically. The cheap LED bulbs are missing a bunch of spectrum which makes certain colors show dark or completely wrong. Its pretty upsetting once you start to perceive it. I literally returned 32 led bulbs back to amazon because the color was so bad, and that was before I found the soraa. I don't know if soraa is the only solution, my friend makes expensive corporate and sales lights and gave me the name of an even higher end company whose bulbs are > $100 each.

What is extra frustrating is that you can't just trust the CRI on the label, probably the manufacturers of 'budget bulbs' are just lying.

Wow! $40 each! And $100 each for the others! I'll check out the soraa.
I've had 10-15 LED bulbs for 8-10 years, and the performance/color has been pretty good. I've mostly stuck to name brands like Phillips, GE, and I think Cree.

I'll be avoiding the Amazon brand and Chinese brands for sure. Lots of good info, thanks.

Many years ago, we put recessed lights in our kitchen (I think it was only 3). We got some LED "bulbs" (they were really can inserts that included the bezel). They were great. They put out good light and looked a lot better than the traditional bulbs. I have no idea what they were, and it was probably 12 years ago and something that I got at Home Depot.