Let's get straight to it: the answer is yes. You can get the full low-down in my teammate Cat Ellis' Philips Hue Essential series review, but the short version is that we're big fans of these lights. They're around half the price of the main range, but when she tested the two sets side-by-side, Cat struggled to see many differences: "Both were equally responsive, and produced colors that were identical to my naked eye when I switched between scenes. According to Signify (the company behind the Philips Hue brand), Essential bulbs use different color-matching technology to regular Hue lights; bu