**The Verdict: A Review of the Monitors**

As we delved deeper into our testing, it became clear that both monitors had some significant issues with their color accuracy and brightness. The first monitor, which was touted as having superior quality due to its 4K resolution, turned out to be dull and lifeless, with a lackluster brightness level and poor contrast ratio. In comparison, the second monitor fared no better, with an even more noticeable pink tint and a significant decrease in brightness.

The monitors' color accuracy was another major concern. Both displays struggled to accurately render colors, particularly in the red spectrum, resulting in a noticeable greenish hue that detracted from the overall viewing experience. It's worth noting that these issues are not unique to this particular monitor, as electronics driving and tuning can significantly impact the final image quality.

**Panel Quality vs. Electronics**

While it may seem like the manufacturer of the panel is solely responsible for its poor performance, there are other factors at play here. The calibration, backlight quality, and intermediate layers all contribute to the overall image quality of the monitor. It's clear that these manufacturers could have done a better job in tuning and optimizing their panels.

**The Speaker Test**

But it wasn't just the monitors themselves that were underwhelming – the speakers that came with them were also lacking. We tested both monitors using the Windows test tone to evaluate their audio performance, and the results were less than stellar. The first monitor's speakers were barely audible, while the second monitor's audio output was completely absent.

We attempted to troubleshoot this issue by trying a different audio method, but it seemed that the monitors' electronics were simply not capable of producing sound in the way we wanted them to. It's possible that these speakers are simply fake or grills, rather than actual speakers.

**Massdrop and Sennheiser Giveaway**

To take our minds off this disappointing display experience, we took a break to talk about our latest giveaway – a Massdrop x Sennheiser PC37X gaming headset. This amazing device features angled drivers and an open-back design for a natural sound that's perfect for gamers.

The speakers in the PC37X are designed by the same team that created the popular HD 600 series headphones, ensuring a consistent level of quality across their product line. And with its noise-cancelling microphone and sleek design, this headset is perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their gaming setup.

So if you're interested in getting your hands on one of these incredible headsets, be sure to check out the link below. It's currently available on Massdrop for just $119.99 – a limited-time offer that won't last long.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso you can get some really cheap stuff on aliexpress monitor appears like this monitor so we ordered this what like a month ago or something like that it was cheap it was only 200 bucks and the reviews for it are fantastic oh wait if you look closely here those reviews are from amazon and they're not even for a monitor for a monitor stand so wait a minute what even is this thing is it any good and can you trust aliexpress at all it doesn't look promising but what we can promise you is that this video is brought to you by thermaltake's a500 has a modern minimalistic design brushed aluminum panels and dual hinge swing tempered glass doors check it out today at the link in the video description so we already did the very cheap feeling um external power brick uh made by dodging hdmi cable that is actually really nice to see included metal stand oh uh sheet metal stand this is really oh this is you know what functional i like it having the screws already installed where they go is handy i do wish that they weren't quite all the way in oh it's curved it's curved baby 3000 r that's interesting so it's got actually yeah quite a tight curve on it another thing you can notice is uh this is not the brand name that was on the product page and this appears to be just spray painted at least it's straight yeah but is it okay so that's about no that's clearly four no it is not in fact level it goes it goes down this way so you got your stereo speakers hdmi vga that's it baby power in no display port literally the very worst kind of on-screen display controls the kind that's on the back you're supposed to have one tactile bump and the stupid part is it's not even a cost saving measure because it's not like they took one button and then just reused the molding for it there's one molding for the entire back panel of the monitor so it was just a stupid decision it's like this is what happens when you clone a product without understanding why they did it on the original product so they probably saw a button that had a tactile bump read a review somewhere that was like yeah helpful tactile bump on the button and we're like oh well they cheaped out they only put one tactile bump we're gonna do five so you reach around behind the monitor and you don't know what button that is you know what though major kudos for them having a vase amount even though i have absolutely no idea how exactly you would put a back plate on it there's your screw again okay now watch how this works well the table you got to lift it lift it there you go here i'll hold that for you all right incredibly light this is scarily light okay in fairness to it in spite of the cheap stand the tilt adjust that it does have actually feels really solid like it's it's really firm first impressions not very strong it's only 1080p yeah it's fine is the whole thing crooked um yeah that's like 83. like this is way off it actually has a bit of like a screen door effect i'm just looking at how there's like there's a a mesh there's a grid that you can see just on a gray background but like text looks like hot garbage oh wow this menu these graphics which one are we on right now and what do the buttons do oh no so it changes part of the frame according to the parameters you set here to look different from the rest of the frame what even is this why what is this feature who could want this when i click the right side it goes to the left like this it goes this way through them and when i click the left side it goes this way warm use oh green is what i think they should call that one that's custom though srgb okay that seems fine cool normal enhance full full sail here on what the hell it must be maybe you don't see it when you have s no no i can see it phone hands off full enhance on it's like saturating it yeah it's saturating it ever so slightly what the hell what is this demoing for a second i thought maybe it was demoing like on or off for your color boost but it's not it's demoing if your monitor was actually broken versus if it wasn't maybe it's meant to be you put like a before and after thing so it's like this is a inferior monitors look like this and our monitor looks like that that's not even remotely close though like you can't even look at this exactly the competition pales in comparison like this is this is like what three bit color like like you know what i mean like when you because you can see a big difference in like banding and in being able to see the discrepancies between shades of gray if you go from like a six bit to an 8-bit panel or a 10-bit panel right so this what what monitor are they simulating here where you can't tell the difference between these colors input select is actually that just that was it fell by the wayside that was a low priority i mean there's only two inputs so by this point it's pretty clear this monitor is terrible but you guys can keep watching for just more pain train here i think so cs go demo mode yeah yeah yeah what even it is it's all up here no it can't be i think it's all in here oh my god it is we can't even see the menu oh my god it's like dishonest sales tactic mode it's like do you want to lie to your customers press this button oh that's a bad guy can we turn demo mode off now and give this thing a fair shake all right let's do it let's do it you know i don't actually feel a discernibly large amount of input leg like i you know if we whip out the makey makey or something and measure it it might not be perfect which is what i did it's not terrible are we going to be able to show these side by side because this one's 4k and that one's super definitely not i don't actually know if we can clone display a game like that we might have to run this one at 1080. okay so they're both 1920x1080 they're both 100 okay is it gonna clone i actually i don't remember ever trying to do this cool uh it's not working it's dull and lifeless let's be more fair let's be even more fair let's be as fair as we can let's try some different um modes or something okay because we're in srgb mode which is not like the most vibrant mode or anything oh my god they're all awful that's just pink go to normal very green okay so we're resetting this to factory defaults i'm getting pro so yeah it's pink it's a pink monitor you can really see it's not bright at all like the contrast is so low like this is brighter than this this is darker here which is what you want and then this like these bright spots where it's supposed to be bright white it's just dull it has no punch to it so to be clear we're comparing two monitors that would both have obvious differences between the image on their screen and a known subject like someone you've seen in person many times well you can see the actual and the drawn or rendered color right there right but we're looking at it on these monitors but we're talking an average delta e of 5.54 and 7.16 so it's considered indiscernible to the human eye when it's sub 2. so that's fascinating so you wouldn't use either of these for color critical work but i think if you're just a regular gamer movie watcher normal stuff you're not gonna really care about either of those values but meanwhile actually using it you hated this it's so damn and it looked so green yeah i hate it here's the thing just because the panel is made by a reputable manufacturer doesn't necessarily mean that they are to blame for a crappy image on it because the electronics that drive the panel the tuning of the panel the calibration of the panel all of these things affect the final image the quality of the backlight the quality of the intermediate layers there's really not much benefit to finding out who's responsible for the actual panel itself i guess there's just an additional appreciation for that most monitors aren't this bad okay there's one more thing we can test though sure if you remember we hated the speakers on that thing yeah we were happy that it came with them i guess they were really bad though yeah could these speakers be worse all right let's find out do i really need any more than the windows test tone to know that this sounds horrible here just not a good test bear with me bear with me no just come over here just come over here and listen to it it's obviously bad already that's pretty bad okay let's try the other one uh hold on it's not picking it up i think the nvidia audio stream output thing can only do one at a time so let's see if it picks up this one are you are you just messing with me no you think they're just grills and there's no real speakers in there they're not picking up i don't know if i ever heard them are you messing with me right now no no i'm not are you sure could they be fake i'm pretty sure the product page also says it has speakers though all right so we're giving it another shot oh my god there aren't speakers in it well speaking of good ideas ending this video now because realistically you guys are no more likely to uh check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description than you were three or four minutes ago and this video is brought to you by massdrop and sennheiser of teamed up to bring us the pc37x gaming headset it features angled drivers and an open back design for a nice natural sound and better stereo imaging and those drivers actually come from the same family as the ht598s and hd 600 series headphones they come with a noise cancelling microphone and they're available on massdrop at the link below for just 119.99 for a limited time go check them out so thanks for watching if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the other stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join seriously i'd recommend anything in this video more than that except with the exception of maybe the amazon basics gaming keyboard that's not very good toss up there no no it's better than this it's just i'm not really recommending it this is cheaperso you can get some really cheap stuff on aliexpress monitor appears like this monitor so we ordered this what like a month ago or something like that it was cheap it was only 200 bucks and the reviews for it are fantastic oh wait if you look closely here those reviews are from amazon and they're not even for a monitor for a monitor stand so wait a minute what even is this thing is it any good and can you trust aliexpress at all it doesn't look promising but what we can promise you is that this video is brought to you by thermaltake's a500 has a modern minimalistic design brushed aluminum panels and dual hinge swing tempered glass doors check it out today at the link in the video description so we already did the very cheap feeling um external power brick uh made by dodging hdmi cable that is actually really nice to see included metal stand oh uh sheet metal stand this is really oh this is you know what functional i like it having the screws already installed where they go is handy i do wish that they weren't quite all the way in oh it's curved it's curved baby 3000 r that's interesting so it's got actually yeah quite a tight curve on it another thing you can notice is uh this is not the brand name that was on the product page and this appears to be just spray painted at least it's straight yeah but is it okay so that's about no that's clearly four no it is not in fact level it goes it goes down this way so you got your stereo speakers hdmi vga that's it baby power in no display port literally the very worst kind of on-screen display controls the kind that's on the back you're supposed to have one tactile bump and the stupid part is it's not even a cost saving measure because it's not like they took one button and then just reused the molding for it there's one molding for the entire back panel of the monitor so it was just a stupid decision it's like this is what happens when you clone a product without understanding why they did it on the original product so they probably saw a button that had a tactile bump read a review somewhere that was like yeah helpful tactile bump on the button and we're like oh well they cheaped out they only put one tactile bump we're gonna do five so you reach around behind the monitor and you don't know what button that is you know what though major kudos for them having a vase amount even though i have absolutely no idea how exactly you would put a back plate on it there's your screw again okay now watch how this works well the table you got to lift it lift it there you go here i'll hold that for you all right incredibly light this is scarily light okay in fairness to it in spite of the cheap stand the tilt adjust that it does have actually feels really solid like it's it's really firm first impressions not very strong it's only 1080p yeah it's fine is the whole thing crooked um yeah that's like 83. like this is way off it actually has a bit of like a screen door effect i'm just looking at how there's like there's a a mesh there's a grid that you can see just on a gray background but like text looks like hot garbage oh wow this menu these graphics which one are we on right now and what do the buttons do oh no so it changes part of the frame according to the parameters you set here to look different from the rest of the frame what even is this why what is this feature who could want this when i click the right side it goes to the left like this it goes this way through them and when i click the left side it goes this way warm use oh green is what i think they should call that one that's custom though srgb okay that seems fine cool normal enhance full full sail here on what the hell it must be maybe you don't see it when you have s no no i can see it phone hands off full enhance on it's like saturating it yeah it's saturating it ever so slightly what the hell what is this demoing for a second i thought maybe it was demoing like on or off for your color boost but it's not it's demoing if your monitor was actually broken versus if it wasn't maybe it's meant to be you put like a before and after thing so it's like this is a inferior monitors look like this and our monitor looks like that that's not even remotely close though like you can't even look at this exactly the competition pales in comparison like this is this is like what three bit color like like you know what i mean like when you because you can see a big difference in like banding and in being able to see the discrepancies between shades of gray if you go from like a six bit to an 8-bit panel or a 10-bit panel right so this what what monitor are they simulating here where you can't tell the difference between these colors input select is actually that just that was it fell by the wayside that was a low priority i mean there's only two inputs so by this point it's pretty clear this monitor is terrible but you guys can keep watching for just more pain train here i think so cs go demo mode yeah yeah yeah what even it is it's all up here no it can't be i think it's all in here oh my god it is we can't even see the menu oh my god it's like dishonest sales tactic mode it's like do you want to lie to your customers press this button oh that's a bad guy can we turn demo mode off now and give this thing a fair shake all right let's do it let's do it you know i don't actually feel a discernibly large amount of input leg like i you know if we whip out the makey makey or something and measure it it might not be perfect which is what i did it's not terrible are we going to be able to show these side by side because this one's 4k and that one's super definitely not i don't actually know if we can clone display a game like that we might have to run this one at 1080. okay so they're both 1920x1080 they're both 100 okay is it gonna clone i actually i don't remember ever trying to do this cool uh it's not working it's dull and lifeless let's be more fair let's be even more fair let's be as fair as we can let's try some different um modes or something okay because we're in srgb mode which is not like the most vibrant mode or anything oh my god they're all awful that's just pink go to normal very green okay so we're resetting this to factory defaults i'm getting pro so yeah it's pink it's a pink monitor you can really see it's not bright at all like the contrast is so low like this is brighter than this this is darker here which is what you want and then this like these bright spots where it's supposed to be bright white it's just dull it has no punch to it so to be clear we're comparing two monitors that would both have obvious differences between the image on their screen and a known subject like someone you've seen in person many times well you can see the actual and the drawn or rendered color right there right but we're looking at it on these monitors but we're talking an average delta e of 5.54 and 7.16 so it's considered indiscernible to the human eye when it's sub 2. so that's fascinating so you wouldn't use either of these for color critical work but i think if you're just a regular gamer movie watcher normal stuff you're not gonna really care about either of those values but meanwhile actually using it you hated this it's so damn and it looked so green yeah i hate it here's the thing just because the panel is made by a reputable manufacturer doesn't necessarily mean that they are to blame for a crappy image on it because the electronics that drive the panel the tuning of the panel the calibration of the panel all of these things affect the final image the quality of the backlight the quality of the intermediate layers there's really not much benefit to finding out who's responsible for the actual panel itself i guess there's just an additional appreciation for that most monitors aren't this bad okay there's one more thing we can test though sure if you remember we hated the speakers on that thing yeah we were happy that it came with them i guess they were really bad though yeah could these speakers be worse all right let's find out do i really need any more than the windows test tone to know that this sounds horrible here just not a good test bear with me bear with me no just come over here just come over here and listen to it it's obviously bad already that's pretty bad okay let's try the other one uh hold on it's not picking it up i think the nvidia audio stream output thing can only do one at a time so let's see if it picks up this one are you are you just messing with me no you think they're just grills and there's no real speakers in there they're not picking up i don't know if i ever heard them are you messing with me right now no no i'm not are you sure could they be fake i'm pretty sure the product page also says it has speakers though all right so we're giving it another shot oh my god there aren't speakers in it well speaking of good ideas ending this video now because realistically you guys are no more likely to uh check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description than you were three or four minutes ago and this video is brought to you by massdrop and sennheiser of teamed up to bring us the pc37x gaming headset it features angled drivers and an open back design for a nice natural sound and better stereo imaging and those drivers actually come from the same family as the ht598s and hd 600 series headphones they come with a noise cancelling microphone and they're available on massdrop at the link below for just 119.99 for a limited time go check them out so thanks for watching if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the other stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join seriously i'd recommend anything in this video more than that except with the exception of maybe the amazon basics gaming keyboard that's not very good toss up there no no it's better than this it's just i'm not really recommending it this is cheaper\n"