Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I just received this VG27AQL1A monitor yesterday along with the VG27WQ. Normally i fiddle with monitors for at least a week before writing a review. I just read the rtings review and I am shocked. They state that this monitor VG27AQL1A is color accurate?!. They should say in “racing mode it is quite color accurate compared to other gaming monitors, but is not nearly as accurate as a professional monitor”. It’s true their icc profile did help somewhat. Some colors are accurate whilst others are not. This monitor has an sRGB mode, but it’s not accurate, and there’s no way to change any settings. You either agree with the Asus factory imposed preset color, or you don’t. There are other color modes on this monitor, but they are a saturated mess of psychedelic garbage. To see anything remotely similar, you would have to take a long hike in the woods in search of spiritual discovery and consume large quantities of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Or take a vacation to Texas in search of extreme visual images provoked by ingesting by a cactus. I do not have fancy calibration equipment, but I do have a few weapons in my arsenal. 1. On the right and left of this monitor are two 32” professional monitors, the Asus pro art series. Both these are perfectly calibrated, show real-life color, perfect blacks. They are however only 75hz. A tad choppy in Pubg. 2. I have a high-end top-notch photography studio. I import RAW files into photoshop. Been using photoshop since 1990, and have been using all forms of Pantone reference color libraries way before that. 3. I have luxury fashion items, bags specifically, they are mainly made of leather and PU leathers. They vary widely in color. From Black to white, and any color in between. 4. The studio uses daylight mode, and all photos are taken with strobe lights. Both Asus pro art monitors show the bag color exactly as it is seen in real life, same exact color. I may tweak the brightness ever so slightly, and apply a light sharpening, but that is it. I then, pull up the bag image on all three monitors including the VG27AQL1A, and some of the colors are not the same. Some of the red tones, blue to purple tones and light lime green colors are not the same, somewhat close, but not the same as Srgb. Most of the brownish colors including blacks are accurate. I did try both the Dell monitors Dell S3220DGF and DELL S2721DGF, and kept them for 2 weeks trying to tweak colors as close to Srgb as possible but gave up. I did enjoy playing with the 32”, as smooth as butter, a huge improvement over 75hz. I look forward to playing with this VG27AQL1A, but have to get color right first. I’m totally anal when it comes to color. Colors are like numbers; they do not lie. I will update this review when I have played a few hours. I have not yet watched a movie with this monitor but I suspect dark scenes will be a problem. I have not checked the HDR quality yet, both the Dells were very good with HDR. I have not yet tried to calibrate the VG27WQ. Will do this over the weekend so as to compare. Update 10/21. I maintain that some of the colors are slightly off compared to a professional monitor. Most of the colors are accurate. This thing is a pleasure to play on. I mainly play FPS games and use both 1440p and 1080p (1080p is windowed). I have a 2070 GTX which is hugely overclockable up to 2100hz. Very smooth monitor, but not very immersive for a 27". Hdr is quite pathetic, but that's not Asus fault. Hdr 400 in general is pathetic. 1000 times better on a tv. When are they going to make a proper color monitor at 144hz, that we can both do production work and game at the same time? The Oled 48" is my next target...but then I have to buy a 3080...It's a never ending battle. I have still not seen movies on this monitor and shall update soon. This is one of the best 27" I have seen to date!