>>51027743you can easily tell the colour reproduction of an LED from its CRI (although that metric is soon to be replaced by Rf and Rg). The cheapest LEDs you can buy have about 75% accurate colour reproduction, the midrange (e.g. ikea ones) have around 90% accurate, and the high-end ones (e.g. soraa) have around 95% accurate colour reproduction. In terms of colour, LED bulbs are a significant improvement over virtually any kind of fluorescent lamp, and are not far behind incandescent. In terms of power consumption they are obviously much better.
You can buy LEDs with diffusers just fine, I'm using one right now.
LEDs themselves are not intrinsically dimmable\non-dimmable, it depends on the type of driver the LED is using.
LEDs offer a variety of other advantages over conventional bulbs. Right now the most interesting is probably being able to dynamically vary the colour temperature.
>>51028749We are at 300lm/watt for the most efficient possible LED lights in the most favourable conditions. Your average COB LED from the last few years will get 150lm/w max.
