What's your preference? I personally prefer incandescent fog both multicolored and warm white categories. If I want cool white I use LED BUT only fully rectified sets.

I hate the saturated cold color of led christmas lights and the tacky fake warm white leds produce.

For indoors my preference are the incandescent clear mini lights. The cool white LEDs do look good outdoors though. As for the coloured lights I'm still a bit undecided on them.

Personally I prefer incandescent C7 and C9 christmas strings using LED retrofit bulbs in these strings for the sharp color. I still enjoy the incandescent clear and ceramic coated C7 and C9 bulbs though.

What's your preference? I personally prefer incandescent fog both multicolored and warm white categories. If I want cool white I use LED BUT only fully rectified sets.

I hate the saturated cold color of led christmas lights and the tacky fake warm white leds produce.

I pretty much agree totally.

I will say, in an effort to preserve my vintage NOS Christmas lights, I have been purchasing a limited quantity of C7 LED bulbs that have very good color quality. I don't buy LED minis because the colored ones are over-saturated, and the incan clears are still cheap enough to run, I don't see the value in using LED for whites (unless cool white). I have even bought some twinkling LED C7's that I am quite happy with.

We have 2 Christmas trees, a 9' artificial that goes in the front window, and a 6-7' real tree in our den. The 9' tree gets the LED (that look almost as good as incan) C7 lights, and the tree in the den gets the real vintage stuff like C-6 and C-7 with bubblers, lighted ice, etc.

Generally, any lights that we will see often are incan, any lights for the neighbors to see (like the 9' tree) are LED.

As for Halloween, this is one area I do actually think LED is better because incan never did purple well, the LED minis look better. However, I very rarely use "Christmas lights" for Halloween. I actually dislike the idea of string lights for Halloween. Seems like a rip-off of Christmas.

* For general use I prefer LED mini's. (2 big reasons: the deep rich color that don't fade, and the minimal power use...when you run hundreds of sets that is a big deal)

* And individual-color strings. I don't do multi.

* Full-wave sets are better (but normal stores don't sell then, which means no buying them cheap). And I have zero interest in the (really expensive) crap that has capacitors to make it 100% flicker-free...because they're not dimmable.

* That said, I do still use some clear incandescent mini.

* I do like the classic/vintage look of C9's. I have multiple sets, but don't use them, too much power, & I don't have a good place.

I like C7/C9s a lot, specifically ceramic color and twinkle C7/C9s, i also don't mind colored LED C9s as long as they're not too overpowering.

For mini lights, i don't mind LEDs as long as they are not too bright or flickery, if a set is too bright or flickery, then i tend to modify them to make them work to my liking. However, i don't like most warm white or twinkling LED mini lights.

The only LED christmas lights I like are incandescent C7 and C9 strings equipped with LED retrofit bulbs. My favorite LED retrofit C7 and C9 bulbs are the Wintergreen opticore SMD LED retrofits.