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It is not wise to rely on any one review site. They could have got a cherry-picked sample to review, or one that just happened to have a problem.
Ideally, the review site buys several samples of the same product and buys them off-the-shelf just as we consumers would. But most reviewers don't have that luxury and often get just one sample that has been passed around from reviewer to reviewer. So check out multiple reviews sites (if possible) and base your decisions on the common findings. Do not depend on the results of a single site - regardless if favorable, or not. And remember, many reviewers base their reviews (especially their conclusions) on their own personal preferences and not their technical findings (assuming they actually performed technical tests - many don't
).
Also, unless you are a professional photographer, or CAD/CAE user, perfect color reproduction may not be that important to you. This is especially true for gamers where essentially all the characters and background scenery are computer generated - not real. So as long as human faces are not green or purple, and still look real, it does not matter if the color accuracy is slightly off.
But professionals often need the display on their monitors to accurately display reality AND perfectly match the printed page. This requires both the monitor and the printer be calibrated to a set color standard.
I use to calibrate big screen TVs and monitors for clients using a calibrator similar
to this. But so often, when calibration was complete, many non-professional users didn't like it how they looked. They would complain the image lacked warmth or didn't appear natural. We humans have been conditioned over the decades, by the manufacturers to prefer our TV and monitor displays to display unnaturally. So those users would re-tweak the contrast, brightness and hues, etc. until it looked right to them - then upset they wasted their money having me calibrate it.
It is the same with home audio reproduction equipment. You calibrate the frequency response to the room to achieve as close to a "flat" "20 to 20KHz" response as possible, and the user didn't like the sound. So they would boost the bass and treble and attenuate the mids.
Oh well. We humans are fickle.
All I am really saying is base your monitor purchasing decision in part, by the specs, but also in your own personal preference.
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