Introduction

For a thorough explanation of our ranking and testing procedures, as well as how to interpret the various color rendering data, spectra, and graphics, check out Page 1, “Understanding the Complete LED Database” page.

Briefly, measurements of all LED lights were taken with the Asensetek Lighting Passport SMART Spectrometer that was synced with the Spectrum Genius Mobile App. Lights tested at NAB 2016 are labelled “NAB”; lights tested in our blacked out studio are labelled “Studio.” We compared some controls in both environments and found the difference to be negligible. Lights are ranked by averaging together CRI (Re), CQS, and TLCI values, then grouping them every 0.5 values. The best possible rank using this method is 100.

(For those interested in last year’s LED models, here is the 2015 LED database, which includes CRI (Ra) and CRI (Re) )