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Input: This monitor is beautiful.  Then you start tweaking the settings and realize not so much.  I received 2 monitors one being a replacement for the 1st cross shipped net day air - ridiculously easy with Amazon.  Sadly that was my best experience with both of these monitors.  The first seemed great but was not pacakaged with additional shipping buffer.  The Styrofoam in the original case is this and the monitor seems to get pressure on it during shipping.  The first monitor had two broken corners in the top where you could touch is gently and hear 'click, click' as well as a discoloration corner to corner in the top left.  The second arrived with a speaker making a pop sound 2-3 times on bootup each time.  None of my other speakers used with this exact same configuration have ever done this.  The monitor is connected via its native displayport to displayport on my radeon 6850HD.  There is no such cable that comes with this monitor even though the native output is via the displayport.  Instead they provide you with a mini-display port to displayport cable, a DVI-D and HDMI wiith Ethernet. They also provide a green aux to aux cable for speaker output from a different source than the display output if needed.<br /><br />The second monitor Seemed ok other than the speaker issue which was annoying but ok I can deal with the occasional pop sound during a boot.  Nope, this carried onto youtube, Spotify, and any other music source I tried.  Also, I started to dork with the settings under the speaker bar and saw that the grid display is showing a single blown pixel in the upper right quadrant.  Amazingly enough the 1st monitor has this as well.  I thought to myself wow what are the odds.  *note* You do not see this &#34;blown&#34; pixel in normal display conditions. Only when switching to grid mode.  THis is not part of an alignment technique to my knowledge and is seemingly defective engineering.  You'd have to call ASUS but good luck.  I have had a rather poor experience withthem trying to return the monitor.  I presumed that this would be done by the manufacturer and not the vendor.  That was 7 days of non-sense in which they said I would be liable for repairs when I clearly requested a cross ship as the warranty of the device suggests is available for the first 30 days.  Finally I came to amazon who within 2 minutes of clicking had a cross ship next day air on the way.  It is my fault for not trying amazon first but I work with pos systems and almost 99% of the time any RMA is done with the manufacturer and not the distribution company.  Again my fault.<br /><br />In a nutshell - 2 defective monitors both with blown pixels in the top right quadrant visible in grid view.  One had pressure damage to the top left and right corners.  The second had a bad speaker with the same blown pixel.  Id try something else.  AOC is similar and less expensive.  Or suck it up and go with a 27&#34; WQHL which is the route I will be taking upon return.

Generous review at 3 stars