Nixeus monitors have always come with On Screen Display that we consider decent. Sure, they may lack advanced features such as 6-axis adjustment color adjustment, but the combination of physical buttons with a consistent and fairly well thought out OSD means you can easily ‘get the job done’ without too much hassle. As such, some may feel that even an inexpensive colorimeter is not worth the cost.
It behooves us to say that before you write off a colorimeter – even if you only plan on using it once – the EDG27240X is not factory calibrated. This means that every single one may, or even will, come with a different color profile ‘out of the box’. This is very common with non-professional monitors… and why we invested in a i1Display Pro many moons ago. Bluntly stated, a colorimeter will give you not only a more accurate but more consistent color profile than what most non-professionals can do manually.
Furthermore, from a reviewer’s point of view, this does limit how much help we can be in setting up your EDG27240X. We can only go by our sample and yours may have a radically different ‘out of the box’ profile. So please take the following as an example of the process you will have to do and not the precise settings you will need to do.
With this in mind, the first thing we did was lower the luminance output so that it was nowhere near as bright. For our environment that meant lowering the backlight down to the low 30s. This resulted in about 140’ish nits of output. Your environment may be brighter than ours and the default settings may be ‘good enough’… or maybe it will be darker and you need to go down to 120nits and the low to mid 20s. Your mileage may vary. Either way we strongly recommend starting with brightness levels as it does impact how certain colors look when displayed on the monitor.
With the brightness taken care of the next thing we would do is lower all three colors by 10 in the OSD. Of course, to do that you will have to change the mode first. We then raised red up by 8, blue by 3, and green by 6. This gave a confirmed 100/100/99 R/G/B color rating via our colorimeter. This is not perfect but with only twenty minutes of work it would be ‘good enough’ for most people’s needs. In all likelihood you would have had to double or even triple the time required to dial in a 100/100/100. Even then you may or may not get it without resorting to a colorimeter. Lastly, we would then set the Over Drive to about 46 to 48 and call it a day as that will get you a much better color profile that will also provide a decent place to start on artifact reduction settings.
