I’m not surprised to see my comments misinterpreted, but still. No, I wasn’t laughing because of your preferences, only the way you express them, which is perhaps too uncharitable but at this point I don’t think I mind that.
I wasn’t saying that someone only uses their light against white walls, but that no matter how good it looks while they do, when they don’t, it can and does throw off the color of objects to some degree, regardless of whether they notice or whether it’s because (as in the example I gave) there’s a lack of red; if you look at maukka’s charts, I would probably dislike one where there is any set of wavelengths that there is too much or little of for the color temperature specified, including lights that are too green (or, if taken to extremes, too pink), relative to what should be present, not in absolute terms. Maybe it has a very big spike that includes too much of one color, compared to all the others. The thing is, even if you move the goalposts and assume that you’re using such little light that nothing you’re seeing is lit at a level that allows you to see in color, the effect does not go away completely. Instead of something being a different color than it should be, it’s just lighter or darker than it should be.
I do not attempt to say that others must think as I do. But I refuse to be told that my preference for color accuracy is invalid; that I am a freak for wanting things to appear as they are, that making some things look strange without knowing it is okay but if a led is not precisely the right tint, then no matter its other qualities it’s instantly trash. (Note: I exclude TK here since she has mentioned her inability to automatically adjust to warmer and cooler CCT’s) And hey, i don’t absolutely love the 219c either; I like the viltrox panel much more - it gets CRI, CCT, and position orthagonal to BBL right, so there’s not much to object to. But with the 219c, when mine came in just slightly green, I considered just using it, because honestly at the minor level of green I saw, it was hard to notice in the real world. But eventually I decided to buy a $1 swatchbook of filters, put the lightest or second-lightest minus green on there, and called it a day. Maybe sometime I’ll get the zircon version due to the heat, but otherwise, it was a simple solution to a minor issue. Don’t have the sheet? Don’t worry about it; if it wasn’t for the d4 219c being 5250k, i might not even have bothered - at 4000k, like the lh351d’s I’m looking forward to in this light, the effect is supposed to be little to none depending what batch you choose, and regardless, if I was looking at 4000k, once my vision adjusted, i’d probably have been even less likely to notice.
Anyway. The point here is, you can’t retreat into “but mah personal preference” until you acknowledge that that means that others’ preferences get equal validity. So the CRI freak thing? Yeah… Otherwise, don’t let anything I said be twisted into some sort of “CRI is most valid” thing. No, CRI is just valid, nothing more or less. If you’d rather enjoy your lights by how their light looks when you use them rather than how well the way it makes some things look corresponds to how they look under ideal sources, that’s a valid way too.