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I think people focus far too much on the temperature of LED street lights and rarely on the CRI. The night will still feel odd and "soulless" even with 2700k LED street lamps so long as they're still the absolute worst CRI.

Dare I argue even I would choose 6500k LED street lights with decent CRI over poor CRI 2700K LED lamps any day.

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> The night will still feel odd and "soulless" even with 2700k LED street lamps so long as they're still the absolute worst CRI.

What makes you say that the CRI causes the lack of soul? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but given that CRI is objectively better than it ever was now, why?

The sodium lamps we used previously had a CRI of 25-35. The absolute worst white LEDs we have have a CRI of at least 60.

Sodium vapor lamps didn't exactly have high CRI either

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