> If you look around you'll be able to find reasonably priced LEDs with 90+ Ra and no flicker, but its a pain in the ass to research it
For people in North America, I'd recommend https://www.hyperikon.com/ for LED products from screw-in bulbs to large area lights with high CRI and no flicker (note: a few products don't have high CRI, so do check the product page). They offer a good range of color temperatures too.
> Most LED lamps have a Ra value of 80, meaning that they emit on average in the 80% of a spectrum that covers most of the visible light.
That's not what Ra means. It's not a percentage - in fact, something with a perfectly flat distribution covering all the visible spectrum would not have especially high CRI, because that's significantly different from the spectrum of blackbody radiation, on which CRI is based. The actual algorithm for calculating CRI doesn't fit nicely in a comment, but it's in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
Edit: missed the negation - CRI is not high for a perfectly flat spectrum.
For people in North America, I'd recommend https://www.hyperikon.com/ for LED products from screw-in bulbs to large area lights with high CRI and no flicker (note: a few products don't have high CRI, so do check the product page). They offer a good range of color temperatures too.
> Most LED lamps have a Ra value of 80, meaning that they emit on average in the 80% of a spectrum that covers most of the visible light.
That's not what Ra means. It's not a percentage - in fact, something with a perfectly flat distribution covering all the visible spectrum would not have especially high CRI, because that's significantly different from the spectrum of blackbody radiation, on which CRI is based. The actual algorithm for calculating CRI doesn't fit nicely in a comment, but it's in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
Edit: missed the negation - CRI is not high for a perfectly flat spectrum.