I've all but given up on cool tinted lights. The only cool lights i buy now are big guns that exist only to produce huge lumens.
I've even gone past neutral lights and I'm starting the plunge into High CRI lights.
I'm with you on that.
I havent used a Non High CRI light for anything purposefull in a loooong time. All the lights I have, that can be modified, are...
including the lights in my(7day) EDC rotation:
Spy 007, Nitecore EX10, Peak Pacific, Peak Caribbean+EX10, Peak Pacific+D10, Ra Twisty, Peak Night Patrol
and keychain backups: Peak Eiger, McGizmo Sapphire, Peak Matterhorn, Fenix L0-Ti
are all modded with high cri seouls... Modding the Spy, Ex10, Twisty and L0-Ti were very easy, modding all those brass peaks was not..but brass peak+neutral led= pure awesomeness, so it's worth cramping your hands with a dremel for a couple hours. :laughing:
Mouser had a good supply of T1xxxH bin on stars. Their bare emitters are T1xxxI bin, so i've been buying the stars and just removing the emitter to get the real low Vf leds.
the stars also have their full tint bin marked on the base of each star.. the bare emitter, you have to guess at the tint.