First of all, the build quality is very good. The long black rubber-coated neck is adjustable and bendable in every way you want. The base and top of the head is actually more white than gray, but the finish looks good.
The illumination comes from a rectangular one-way mirror-like panel underneath the head. The spread of light is good for its intended use; As a nightstand light.
What sets this lamp aside from regular lamps is the touch-operation. The black panel on the base has 7 buttons which are highly responsive. The dimming function is good and goes from comfortable 5% (which i mostly use when reading at night) to very bright 100% . There is also a button for changing between warm white (the nicest one) and regular white.
A smart function that is not mentioned in the description is that if you hold the on/off button a couple of seconds when turning it off, the button will light up in a dim blue and stay that way. This makes it easy to turn on the lamp in the middle of the night when it's completely dark.
Wonderful product, especially considering the price!! If you want a fancy, functional and smart lamp with a premium-feel, then this is the one for you.
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Sent it to my daughter to use in her dorm room. The good part is the light is adjustable. And the 7 watt can be really bright.Best Deals for Marslg Adjustable Color Temperature 5 Level Dimmable Touch Control
[TL;DR: Noticed I'm the first review with "only" 4 stars. At this price it _is_ a 5-star product and I wish I could give it a 4.5. I'm a picky dork Adding the all-LEDs-on intermediate color temperature or letting the 'dimming indicator' LED turn off would earn a full 5.]Okay, this was definitely the most affordable option on Amazon for a color-temperature adjustable desk lamp, and while I've only had it for a few hours, I'm already in love. Some notes and quirks:
-It's bright! Brightness is adjustable at 5 discrete settings. At the brightest it certainly throws more light than an incandescent 60W table lamp... not sure exactly how much more but enough to fill in under fluorescent office lighting, and I kind of want one for work now. The lowest "5%" setting is probably just about right for reading in bed without eyestrain. I wish it would go a little lower for sub-reading just-enough-to-find-the-buttons-on-the-radio brightness, but that's not a dealbreaker.*
-It's diffused! There's a light-spreader to save your eyes from point-source glare, and while I was skeptical whether I'd like that, it really is much better for reading, and probably seeing. Swapping out a previous LED lamp with a lot of undiffused LEDs, I now realize the old one threw more sharp-edged shadows than I consciously noticed, probably subtly layering a "dazzle" pattern over everything. The idea of a diffused panel may seem 'boring' at first, but your eyes will appreciate it and 'diffused' no longer means 'dim'.
-It's (relatively) big! I didn't even check the dimensions before ordering. The base is about the size of a paperback novel or DVD case in area, or a tetch larger. The coaxial-type power plug (24V DC adapter included) hangs an inch out the back; If they had put it 'under' the base to hide it and molded a channel to hold the cord it that would have been a cosmetic improvement, but see below re: styling.
-Only 2 color temperatures. The loss of an intermediate 'both banks of LEDs on' temperature is nerd-annoying when I know it should be possible, though probably not all that important in practice although it would potentially allow twice the already-sufficient brightness. If this were a beta and I were a product tester, I'd suggest locking it out at the lowest brightness(es) and then hopping the 'brightness level' back and forth so one of the middle settings might become the new lowest brightness. (Leaving the brightest level on this hypothetical "Version 2.0" lamp would then 'dim' the lamp back to 100% on the other modes, but dimming isn't a blinding shock to the pupils, so that's okay.)
-Blue LEDs: Okay, this is probably the least-annoying most-tasteful use of blue LEDs you'll see this year, but if any use of them bothers you... they might bother you. The one backlighting the 'power button' area is toggled by a long hold as another reviewer describes. Unfortunately the one indicating the dimmer setting is not. The brightness seems to have been carefully chosen to be low-glare and -onlyas bright as the dimmest setting on the lamp, but that's still a bit too bright. I hope the manufacturer rethinks this or adds a toggle like the power button (and/or 'dithers' the printing on the control panel so the lowest notch has to shine through the black ink). That said, these are *not* wall-washingly, painfully bright like you find on computer cases, USB hubs, etc., and are understated under brighter conditions and unnoticeable with the lamp on a shelf or table. My personal taste still runs to amber, red, or at least violet.
In pitch dark, the 'power button' backlight LED leaks a bit under the edge of the touchpad label on my open-box "Warehouse Deals" unit. That might be a fit/finish issue for someone who actually wants to use it.
-Style/Fashion: It's hard to discern the exact color of the base in the photo on Amazon and even harder to explain it in 2013; I'd call it "academic white" or "academic off-white". It's the color and roughly the style of a freshly-purchased "white" modem box from 1992, say... or the color of office paper before they added that extra stage of bleaching to 'blinding white' (what's that, 89 bright)? The lamp head is glossy polycarbonate in a whiter "titanium white" that is obviously different but still matches "close enough". If you were wondering, zero light leaks through the top (LED lamps have the LEDs mounted on opaque circuit boards, so you shouldn't expect any to unless they've added it as a feature).
The gooseneck arm is quite adjustable, including tilt (by bending the gooseneck, not by swivel) and sleeved with a matte rubbery plastic.
This thing is anti-fashionably fashionable like the original Subaru WRX. I mean no insult when I say it's somewhere between all of 'modernist', 'retro-modernist', and 'modem box' with a whiff of 'soviet' or 'educational' sturdiness.** It makes me think of spending time in the well-lit 'carrels' back at my old university library... and, somewhat, being back in school before that reading computer magazines and wishing I could afford 28.8kbps and a CD-ROM. If you were born after 1990 you probably won't get it... but if you were before, it might take you back to the last time you sat down and read something on paper without stopping to check your phone and your email and your news feeds.
I didn't exactly expect the nostalgia trip er, it's just a plastic lamp, right? but I'm not complaining. Especially if that's an excuse to switch to 'period-appropriate' LED colors on the control panel, guys.
-AM / LW radio interference: Well, the very (too) sensitive radio I left a foot away from it with a giant passive loop antenna gets swamped with AM-band noise.. but only when the lamp is dimmed, and any radio dork should know not to do that, I just didn't rearrange my stuff. More testing shows it doesn't seem to bother AM on a regular clock radio sharing the same outlet but sitting a few feet further away. FM listeners, don't worry, you're about 100 million things distant from where any interference could be.***
-Verdict: After dorking with this thing for barely an evening and having bought it because my previous modest-brightness but ~5500K 'pure white' reading light was somehow keeping me up all night I'm starting to wonder how I ever put up with single-color task lighting... which is a weird thing to say, but if you're somewhat sensitive to that sort of thing you know what getting a 'fluorescent tan' feels like, especially if you work in a submarine of an office where the other stragglers don't agree with switching to half-lighting after sundown. I want one of these at my work desk so I can flip it to 'warm' at 5:30 and remind myself I'm still sitting around (or putzing around writing Amazon reviews don't spit your coffee, 1%ers, it's not by the hour) past 'quittin' time'.
*Tucking some amber or lower-power LEDs into the head for a 'nightlight mode' would be great, though... after all, there are already extras for the base controls.
**I'm not sure how well this would actually hold up in a real 'academic' setting if you wanted to keep it pristine you've got the wrapping on the gooseneck, the scratchable plastic of the base, the it's-just-a-plastic-sticker cover for the controls, the rear power connector for some jerk to snap off and the could-end-up-looking-like-a-first-run-iBook polycarbonate on the lamp head to worry about. But if you want a little bit of that 'school library' vibe in your own room, study, or office... this thing has a little of that "mojo" to it.
***The RFI with radios on the same nightstand would be another reason to wish for a 'nightlight mode' that could run without chopping any waveforms.
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nice diffuse light. the range of brightness are all useful. the lower color temperature is perfect for evening reading. nice finish.Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Marslg Adjustable Color Temperature 5 Level Dimmable Touch Control
I have tried about every type of desk lamp there is, and FINALLY I can truly say that this Marsig, 5 level dimmable desk lamp meets,and even exceeds my expectations of a desk lamp. Very good build quality, simple and easy touch control for the light settings. This
lamp has the most unique light defusing lens that I have ever seen. Extremely uniform light output,can switch between warm white, or
cool white, blue leds that indicate what level the light is set at. I hope it's not a sin to Love a desk lamp! If it is, then I am in
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