Any good LCD monitor for audio work ?

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Mike Rivers wrote:
> I just read a "consumer" article about rebates last week. There have
> been a number of companies who just never send rebates, hoping that
> you'll forget about them. I've been lucky, but I know others who
> haven't.

I'm thinking Samsung is a big enough company that they probably
won't try to cheat me in that department. Plus if they do, they
have some kind of facility here in Austin, so worse comes to worse
I can go in person and demand my money.

> But still, $729 is a lot of money to spend on a monitor. Glad my
> console doesn't need one - and it's bigger than your monitor. <g>

If you spend most of your working hours in front of it, $700-ish
is actually not a lot at all to spend on a monitor. It's a small
price to pay for increased productivity and for preserving your
eyesight.

Plus, I spent about that much on the last monitor I bought new,
which was a 17" CRT monitor with a 15.9" viewable area. That was
about 7 years ago, so if I buy a new $700 monitor every 7 years,
then I'm only spending $100 year, which is totally worth it
considering how much one-on-one time me and the computer have.

- Logan

 

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"Logan Shaw" <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Mike Rivers wrote:
>> I just read a "consumer" article about rebates last week. There have
>> been a number of companies who just never send rebates, hoping that
>> you'll forget about them. I've been lucky, but I know others who
>> haven't.
>
> I'm thinking Samsung is a big enough company that they probably
> won't try to cheat me in that department. Plus if they do, they
> have some kind of facility here in Austin, so worse comes to worse
> I can go in person and demand my money.
>
>> But still, $729 is a lot of money to spend on a monitor. Glad my
>> console doesn't need one - and it's bigger than your monitor. <g>
>
> If you spend most of your working hours in front of it, $700-ish
> is actually not a lot at all to spend on a monitor. It's a small
> price to pay for increased productivity and for preserving your
> eyesight.
>
> Plus, I spent about that much on the last monitor I bought new,
> which was a 17" CRT monitor with a 15.9" viewable area. That was
> about 7 years ago, so if I buy a new $700 monitor every 7 years,
> then I'm only spending $100 year, which is totally worth it
> considering how much one-on-one time me and the computer have.
>
> - Logan

Me, too. Same for the $800 chair. Best equipment money I spent last year.

Steve King

 

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In article <XCE_d.1793$ot.1001@tornado.texas.rr.com> lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com writes:

> Mike Rivers wrote:
> > I just read a "consumer" article about rebates last week. There have
> > been a number of companies who just never send rebates

> I'm thinking Samsung is a big enough company that they probably
> won't try to cheat me in that department. Plus if they do, they
> have some kind of facility here in Austin, so worse comes to worse
> I can go in person and demand my money.

Rebates are almost always handled by a fulfillment company. You won't
get your money if you go to Samsung in Austin. You probably have to go
to Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where most of these things seem to come
from.

I don't think they'll cheat you either, but it'll take every bit as
long as they say it will. I just got a $10 rebate check yesterday for
a USB memory stick that I bought in January. I forgot about that one.
Good lunch! Yum!

> Plus, I spent about that much on the last monitor I bought new,
> which was a 17" CRT monitor with a 15.9" viewable area. That was
> about 7 years ago

The last monitor I bought (for my studio computer) was a 19" CRT at
the used computer store. I think I paid $129 for it about two years
ago and it was essentially new. I had to leave the carton there
because it wouldn't fit in my car. I agree that having a monitor that
makes you comfortable is a good thing though. If that's what it takes,
then that's what you should do. I spend most of my day behind
computers and I'm still happy with 17" CRTs (but web page text on the
one that runs at 1280x1024 pixels is getting mighty small).


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