They are glaringly bright and cold and artificial looking.
There is a warmth to the incandescents.
Yes.
We’ve recently started replacing all the ‘new, fake’ lights that were brought in when our apartment management apparently received some grant to install all these fake lights.
I appreciate a good little LED lamp for doing fine work - my eyes ain’t what they used to be - but I don’t want to LIVE in that ‘atmosphere’.
I’ve heard about this company, but I don’t know anyone who has actually bought and used them:
-JT
I can't stand them either, particularly with outside displays. When I drive past, particularly the sickly blue colored ones, I pick up the 60 Hz flicker of these things in my peripheral vision and it fills me with some primal sense of dread or fear or something like a lion is about to leap out from my periperal vision. Really distracting.
Indoors, if I just move my head I sense the flicker as well.
There is undoubtedly research that had been done and that is how they came to that particular wavelength of blue LED for modern police cruiser light bars strobes... it's intentional.