I’ve been looking for “the ultimate” bulbs for a while now. 4,000k, super high CRI…but also the smoothest and closest spectrum to sunlight I can find.
I’ve seen the reviews for Sunlike… and they do sound awesome, but I’m just a bit nervous as I don’t really see any information about them anywhere else.
Just curious 
This thread is a collection of high cri bulbs. IIRC sunlike is on the list. If you search for reviews here I’m pretty sure there are a handful sharing their opinions.
Edit: updated link. My bad the spacing got messed up. @tekwyzrd thanks for correcting it
Hey thanks man, I will check that link out.
Errr… the link gives the following error:
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Ahhh got it!
FYI, as far as I know, Sunlike Bulbs is an individual who is starting up his own company to focus on very high CRI products. He is a member on this forum (I believe joined after he started building and selling bulbs).
Maukka has tested a couple of his products, and confirmed they are among the highest CRI LED bulbs available:
If you’re looking for a more established company, the next closest product I know of in terms of CRI are from Soraa and Yuji.
Yeah, Sunlike is a character, but he takes great pride in his work. If I’m going to spend over $20 per bulb, I’m buying from him. In fact if I can get him to make some BR30-shaped bulbs, I’ll be replacing the SORAA bulbs in our kitchen 
try to force me :money_mouth_face:
For this moment I still alone…
I am trying to teach helper to create bulbs like I do, I hope he will, but it is 4th worker…
And it is so much time to teach the worker… 
Waveform is solid too, but for about the same price Sunlike excels in quality and has many more options.
What? My bulbs is the same price with cheap mass USA bulbs with good spectrum leds??
No way…
Try StarLike! (200$ per bulb)
A lot of your more smaller/more common size format products are very similarly priced to what off the shelf brands here offer with decent (only decent, not great) CRI/quality/spectrum/etc., that’s why yours with better performance are such a great value IMO! :+1:
Never got a chance to mention, thanks for including a 2x bulb “splitter” in my order, very fun for comparing different bulbs side-by-side.
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Suddenly I felt less interested in waiting for StarLike. 
There are complaints about waveform durability in Review: Waveform Lighting A19 Centric Home/Daylight E27 bulbs (2700K, 4000K, 5000K). So I wouldn’t call it solid.
Yes, e27 splitter is cheap, but good thing. It is some kind of my marketing. Because it is easy way to do twice brighter. But it is if you have 2 bulbs.
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Really expensive leds =(
https://store.yujiintl.com/products/yujileds-hyperspectral-350nm-1000nm-2835-led-smd
StarLike™
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Thanks for showing that. At least we know what to expect. This has really made me uninterested in waiting because:
ADDED: Oh, I see that your spectrum measurements show something very different from the Yuji ones…
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And StarLike will be about ~50lm/watt (SunLike is ~100lm/watt)
So, 200$ per bulb, but flux like SunLike 8 (21:money_mouth_face:
I see there’s a series of LEDs from Smart Eco Lightning that also features broadband spectrum, together with much higher CRI than the Yujis, at least on paper:
Maybe it would be better and cheaper than Starlike?
I think StarLike is only useful for things like exotic birds …
UV and IR are not desireable in most use cases, the extra uv and ir will accelerate color degradation of objects and especially integrity of plastics
I understand the concerns around UV, but IR and NIR are often beneficial aren’t they?
I’d love to have the Sunlike from 450nm on down, and these euroLighting LEDs above 450nm for my home lighting.