Originally Posted by wayold

Outbound puts some serious engineering effort into their beam profile design. As a former optical engineer I really respect what they're doing. That said, for most applications I'm pretty happy with the simple beam profile produced by an LED in a parabolic reflector (or some array of such emitters and some simple optics). Outbound does put more "lumens where you want them", but charges a lot more for those well placed lumens. That value proposition may work for some riders and not for others.