Misunderstanding expensive lighting

For a permanent basement installation on the cheap, I'd go with high-CRI dimmable LED (or standard tungsten) bulbs, standard edison base, inside a china ball or in a cheap work-light type reflector. I've worked on docs where they used a 3-way tungsten edison bulb that could go to 150w inside a china ball, to light people around a table (at night, not competing with daylight) and it worked surprisingly well with C300s.

Kino's daylight tubes are good, but the kino tungsten tubes are pink... which is flattering on some skin-tones, but they're not in the same league as the high 90's CRI daylight... but regardless... yes, Divas are an institution... in STL also.

I'm seeing some Diva-Lites on ebay for ~$150 which is totally affordable, would this be a sufficient key for my scenario? Also, is this what you meant by high CRI, dimmable, LED bulbs: https://www.1000bulbs.com/category/led-par38-120w-equal-high-cri/ (these are 3000K, so not necessarily daylight balanced)

Tungsten/Incandescent bulbs are super super cheap ...
 
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