You heard wrong. LED's themselves pretty much all come from China, its the mounting and implementation that varies between vendors, but the base LED/SMD has the same mean time between failures across the board. And that MTBF is a factor better than incandescent.

I use CT, PBL and Pinballbulbs intermixed on all my machines, depends on the use I need them for. For cheap spots where I know I wont have ghosting and will not directly see the bulb you can't beat .36 cent bulbs from PBL. For most frosted, CT get my business, for Warm White GI Pinballbulbs tends to be more consistent,,,, again, it all depends on what you are doing.

Worse thing, don't spend $200 on a 'kit' thats the only constant. Kits are for those who do not want to do homework and just want someone else to shop for them. Just like picking up a phone and telling someone else to buy your groceries, you will pay more and you get what you get.

Bah for a moment I hoped someone spent the time to make a website dedicated to the grate Williams System 9 pin like was done to www.firepowerpinball.com and that machine.

No, but I have had them send me extras when I reported a issue with a couple I've gotten that were defective. They covered the shipping and tossed in a couple extra even after I asked them to hold until my next order and save the shipping.

And that was just a bunch of sophomoric crap. Folks call CT by personal names all day long and 10 times to Sunday, but then CT cites a Pinsider by name and hens cluck foul and act like a credit card database was just shared. Darker days on Pinside that I hope have passed.

There isn't one. Period.

That is like saying the best all around beer. Different tastes, different needs.