This is an amazing thread. Thanks to @jedsmith for starting it and to everyone for contributing.
In the interest of making it easier for readers to follow the different topics that are interwoven here, we are moving the discussion of LED lights started by @hbrendel to a new thread, and we encourage you to begin new, more topic specific threads to continue these conversations. Please only post here in direct response to earlier posts. If there are important items here that are relevant, please link to posts in this thread in your new thread.
This thread is not being locked for now. But please treat it as if it is!
EDIT: I have also moved the discussion specific to compression curves into a new thread.