LED dimmable lights in audio room?


I am getting ready to redo my audio room/home office.

I am going to redo the ceiling tiles in here and want to wire up some dimmable LED lights (the "can"-type ones).

I would also like to put them on a dimmer. 

Any electromagnetic interference/distortion/static types of issues that you could foresee doing that?

Just wondered if anyone has done this before.

Thanks in advance.


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Showing 1 response by erik_squires

I have this situation. The old style dimmers were awful, however the new LED bulbs and compatible dimmers are much better.

Pay careful attention to the limits on the dimmer. The W for LED vs. incandescent is different.

HOWEVER!! :) I have found and others have reported that LED lighting can be quite noisy due to the wall wart. I would avoid having that wall wart anywhere near your audio AC.  I put a scope on the AC of one such LED lantern and the junk it put down on the AC line was really awful, and well within the audio band. 

YMMV, of course.  Just saying, I'm a lot more comfortable with modern LED bulbs/dimmers than with LED lamps with wall warts.