I will say that the cheap Cree A19 (standard Edison socket) bulbs that you can get at Home Depot are remarkably high quality. Perhaps more importantly, they look normal. I bought a bunch of the earlier Philips LED bulbs, which have great light quality but look like something from an alien starship. Sometimes, you'd rather not have your bulbs calling attention to themselves.
That's a very important point. With some of these bulbs, you simply can't put them in certain lamps because they won't even broadcast the light in the proper directions. The Cree bulbs cast light in pretty much every direction normal bulbs do.
One downside I have with the Cree bulbs, though, is the weird rubbery coating. It's not that I dislike it, it's just that it seems to grab onto every dust particle in the air
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