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Zepherino
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Feb 22, 2018
Got my monitor. Some initial impressions:
Input lag indeed feels very low. Initial testing indicates I can consistently get within 1 frame (~16ms) of a simple input lag test. Will need more testing to verify how low it actually is.
Speakers actually sound OK, and get decently loud. Nothing special, but better than expected.
Screen has a matte coating, which I prefer for something like this.
The LCD panel quality is really bad. Viewing angles are awful, colors are washed out (especially darker ones) and my monitor has one dead/stuck pixel. I will contact Massdrop and see what their policy is on the dead pixel. Also feels like there's some sort of sharpening effect going on that I can't get rid of, which is particularly noticeable with text. You can see the sharpening effect create a small outline around Cammy in SFV. A bit distracting, but easy to ignore once you actually start playing the game. Retro games (via OSSC or HDMI based consoles like the Super Nt) look pretty good, although the poor viewing angle and color reproduction is still a problem, just less noticeable with upscaled/linedoubled 240p stuff.
Overall I'm still pretty OK with what I got. The LCD panel is pretty craptastic and begs for improvement, but the low input lag and portability makes this a uniquely useful monitor for me. I probably wouldn't recommend it to most people since they probably won't forgive the bad LCD (just look at other comments in this discussion).
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