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hey I'm seeing that's right Chris and today we've got a review of a very good lightbulb for you the GE reveal BR 30 LED hanging right here above my head winner of our editor's choice now this ge LED is a floodlight so that means that it's gonna cast light in one direction just straight down here it's gonna bounce any light going up that way back down so it's kind of the type of bulb you want to use for a recessed lighting setup or for track lighting any situation where you want light to shine just down now what makes this an editor's choice winning bulb well for me it's a couple of things that all stemmed back to a very good design first off it's got an emphasis on color quality the GE reveal line of bulbs all promise to make your colors pop to make whites look white blues look blue it does that with a high color rendering score that comes by way of filtering out some of the yellow light that comes out of the bulb so it filters out that light amps the wattage up to make up for the lack of brightness and the result is a very clean natural-looking light if you look at this picture of a bowl of M&Ms we can see that the GE reveal leaves that bowl looking white leaves those colors bright and vivid side by side with the similarly priced cree be our 30 LED you can see just it looks better it looks a little nicer it's subtle it might be too subtle for some but if you care about colors if you want the artwork or the design of your home to look right this is a light that's gonna do very well one other thing the GE revealed br 30 LED cost 18 dollars which might sound like a lot but that's actually 2 bucks less than that Cree BR 30 LED in addition to that focus on color quality you're also getting a bulb that does very well managing heat and also does very well on dimmer switches we tested out a whole bunch of BR 30 LEDs this is the only one that didn't flicker as we dimmed it up and down on any of our dimmers it just looked very very nice as steady it didn't buzz no other bulb could say that so if you've got dimmer switches it's a no-brainer oh no this is just a terrific bulb and among BR 30 LED is a specific category of lights it kind of stands unmatched nothing else is offering quite the total package that GE has with this bolt for more of a value play you might consider the philips slim style BR 30 LED that bulb comes in at closer to 13 dollars but still at 18 bucks I think this is an exceptionally well priced bulb very good value very good performer and an easy winner of our editors for CNET I'm right Crist