I'll also vouch for PJM, While the CCFLs that I used to have didn't come from Paul, they certainly were BRIGHT!. And in the early evening when the sun starts to settle down a bit, ohh man - it was pure sex. I recall driving home from work one day, nothing but my quarters and my CCFLs on, sun was going down a bit, but still enough light to see your car...turning a corner, I was met with a row of BMWs, Benzes, and Lexii sitting in a turning lane waiting to turn onto the road I just turned from, and every single one, I mean EVERY single one of those moneybags had their gaze set on my car, almost like synchronized gawking (shoulda been an olympic sport). They seriously catch attention. And I remember driving through podunk Iowa one evening coming up behind traffic, not too hard to notice a set of rings blazing behind you...by the time my car caught up to their doors, the occupants were already turning heads to see what car it was.
My only beef w/ those CCFLs (and these were some that I bought on dreamka4u.com), is that after about six months, they started turning purple on me. At first it was because it got cold, and they would start out with a purple glow before warming up to full blown white, but then one day, one of them just glowed a pinkish/purple, it sucked - I had to cut that wire and the same on the other side to keep it balanced. They weren't a very good quality. Eventually, I dumped my headlights for the F/L ones, never going back to AEs because one of the biggest peeves I dealt with in that time was heavy condensation in both lights, and to make matters worse, a long brown hair eternally baked in one of them...lol.
If I were to go back to AEs, I'd definitely try Seoulfulracing's LED AEs, only because it's different, and because of the LEDs - a lot of my exterior lighting is all LED (except for the front turn sigs, at least for now). Otherwise, I'd definitely go back to CCFL. They are certainly without question, very very bright - if you have them now, you know what I'm talking about.