NamelessPFG
Headphoneus Supremus
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The TrackIR is a godsend for flight simulation. Flying without it feels like I have my head on a neck brace, and I'd have to waste a hat switch just to manage the view.
As for the "2ms LCD" figures, you'll find that if you head to the lagom.nl response time test page, response time can vary wildly depending on what's transitioning to what else, and monitor manufacturers tend to quote the best figures.
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Yes, there is indeed an awful lot of deception in the monitor industry. It's rather irritating. (Two words sum it all up more than most: "dynamic contrast".)
IPS panels might still lose out on contrast and input lag (NOT response time), and they still have that whole native resolution problem inherent to pretty much every display tech that isn't a CRT. (I still play a lot of older games that use varying resolutions that most certainly don't match the native resolutions of current LCDs.) Then there's higher refresh rates, which make everything noticeably smoother in motion. (You can currently only go higher than 60 Hz on TN LCDs, which ends up resulting in poor vertical viewing angles. As a TrackIR user, no thanks.)
Oh, and there's another monitor you didn't see that's in my bedroom. I use it for gaming on my old consoles in glorious 240p/480i RGB. Such signals look utterly, utterly dreadful on HDTVs without a dedicated upscaler like an XRGB-3 (and sometimes have a lot of input lag on top of that), and those upscalers tend to be incredibly expensive.
Still, many people will trade those off for better color reproduction (at least on the professional-grade monitors), no need to fiddle around with geometry and convergence, and lots more resolution, and that's their choice. CRTs just happen to work out better for me, especially with a very limited budget.
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I don't really hear anything out of this particular CRT monitor when it's running. Lucky me, I guess.
Newer doesn't always mean better. I'd take this 21" behemoth of a CRT over all the cheap TN LCDs that plague the market. (IPS, though...I'd consider it somewhat. Don't know about PVA.) If anyone can't accept that I or anyone else would still use a CRT (and this isn't a little bulbous shadow mask monitor, either, but one of the last aperture-grille models), then they can put up or shut up. (Or donate me a 30" 2560x1600 IPS LCD monitor in working order.)
As for opinions on products, a big issue is that they're subjective by nature. For an example I can readily recall here on Head-Fi and some other forums, people debate what makes a good gaming headphone. For as many people that rave about the AD700 for that, some others will shoot it down because of the anemic bass, and yet some other people will say that it actually has competent bass with a bit of bass boost/EQ. Then there's the few opposing opinions on whether or not the best gaming headphones are electrostatics. It would help immensely if people could audition the headphones that have their interest before buying, but most people simply don't have immediate access to them anywhere in their area, leaving them no choice but to plunk down the cash first and gamble. (It's happened to me with both the AD700s and the Lambdas, and I think it paid off both times, but that's just me.)
Yeah big speakers for that desk but if it's convenient enough for you and sounds good to you/you enjoy it, then more power to ya! I don't see a tear in the right tweeter but I sure do see some damage in the middle-right of the right subwoofer.
