NamelessPFG
Headphoneus Supremus
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Love your flight sim tools. I love my trackerIR5. I have the same issues with the flight sticks. You could benefot from an IKEA office desk setup. they are sturdy and cheap and great quality. www.ikea.com. Check them out. Oh and I dissagree. New LCD monitors are now at 2ms. as fast as crts nowadays and they are cheap and they are bigger!
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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I love monitor stats. Fun fact: They all lie. All of them. Every. Last. One. refresh rate and response time are both measured differently from model to model, not just brand to brand. There is no ISO defined standard for how you measure, what you measure, any of it. Because of that, a 5 ms screen can actually be faster and clearer than a 2 ms screen. Fun times.
The truth is an IPS display is going to be equal or higher quality to all but the very best CRTs that were available at their height. However, they have none of the tradeoffs of having a CRT (such as the cancer, power consumption and insane amounts of space required).
Oh, and another reason the gaming excuse is invalid is this: How many gamers do you think still place with CRTs? How many gaming rig companies still even offer CRTs?
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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You forget generating a chirping tone that gives me an unbearable headache.
And CRT's are pretty dated as far as I know. I remember there was a girl playing on a CRT in a ventrilo channel once. Everyone suddenly stopped what they were doing due in sheer awe; 'Who the hell still has a bubble monitor? That's ancient!'.
And that was almost two years ago, if I remember correctly.
And it's true that specs don't say much, but isn't that the same with audio equipment? There are somethings we can consider like having IPS of TN in monitors, or having a good DAC chip over a bad one.
Other than that I think we are quite used to just reading what other people have to say about it before buying (reading reviews and forum posts). And if we're lucky we get a chance to audition it before buying.
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.)