TL;DR, if this works with the ASD (or even better, the 2020 iMac), I’m getting one!
Most vendors of my stand say the maximum supported weight is either 6 kg or 7 kg. One even said 8 kg, but it was an exception. The LG is 6 kg and the ASD is 5.5 kg with VESA mount.
I don't know the weight of your 5K iMac with VESA mount. If within that weight limit it will be fine, but if significantly heavier you might want to consider a different stand. There is a Pro Display XDR knockoff stand that is the same one that Kuycon sells as their universal stand, and it holds up to 10 kg. I believe it is made by the same company as my stand, just a different model.
I pre ordered this monitor on Oct 15th and was really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I’m very disappointed. The matte screen completely kills the benefit of the high resolution and I also noticed a dark shapes on the right side. For such a high price, the quality just isn’t acceptable. I’ve just sent it back and I’m not sure yet if I should try ordering a new one, maybe I just got a defective one
Those dark shapes appear to be dirty screen effect. I have some of that too. The bigger the screen, the more common that is. It's extremely common to see on TVs for example, often easily seen in hockey games (solid white ice rink). I suspect that is one of the many reasons the Apple Pro Display XDR is so expensive. Apple only uses the best of the best panels for their 6K model. As for the matte, I personally think it looks decent, and I think text quality on the LG 6K is excellent even as a someone who also owns a 5K iMac.
I suspect most of these LG 6K displays will have dirty screen effect to a certain degree but that degree will vary greatly. It is the panel lottery I was referring to before in these threads. My bigger concern is backlight bleed though. I previously said I don't have any but now after nearly two weeks of usage if I look closely in the dark I can see spots with slight bleed, but it's really minimal, nothing compared to the 4K and 1440p 32" Asus ProArts I had tried. After thinking about it a few days, I decided to keep mine. I didn't want to try repeatedly buying units until I got a perfect one, considering I already have one with minimal backlight bleed.
Oh, I didn’t know that. If LG offered that, that would be incredible. I don’t think it does (which is a shame), but my order for two monitors has been placed (no tracking number yet), so hopefully I’ll find out soon!
The LG 6K does not offer higher than 60 Hz in any mode AFAIK.
1. Can someone who has this monitor measure how low it can go? So the lowest measurement from the desk to the bottom of the bezel, and list it here?
2. I'm not familiar with LG's software - can I hardware calibrate this monitor with two different modes REC.709/100nits/6500k/gamma 2.4 (and 2.2) for Resolve work and AdobeRGB/120nits/6500k/gamma 2.2 for photo work, and will it upload 3DLUTs to the monitor? Will it also create accompanying ICC profiles and switch between them when I switch modes?
1. As
@smirking mentioned, it's been posted previously. Anyhow, on my unit the stock stand can go as low as 5.4" above the table, but LG USA said for their in their own office, it's like a half inch higher or something like that. I don't know why there is such a discrepancy, but it may be because the hinge resistance is higher at the extremes so you have to kind of force it a bit to go down to 5.4". My aftermarket stand reviewed above goes down quite a bit lower though, so the monitor is 3.75" above the table.
2. The monitor has two hardware calibration entries for the user to program right into the monitor, called Calibration 1 and Calibration 2. Using their LG Calibration Studio software, I programmed Calibration 1 as Display P3 (P3 colour gamut / 6500K / gamma 2.2 / 120 nits) for general Mac use. The monitor already has a preset for DCI-P3, but not Display P3. With the latest firmware there were three new presets added called Studio 1,2,3, but I can't find anywhere what exactly they are set for. The manual just says they are three different presets to use with laptop displays. Not very helpful.
When you create the calibration setting, it creates an ICC profile to match, but strangely enough it doesn't put it in the proper ColorSync directory. So, if you switch away from that ICC profile to use a different profile, then try to switch back, you can't because the LG ICC profile has disappeared from the list. Stupid. The ICC profile is actually still on the Mac but in a different LG directory, so what I did was just to copy it to the proper ColorSync directory and it shows up in the Displays calibration settings list. The other problem though is LG's ICC profile naming scheme is kind of cryptic so it can get a bit confusing if you have more than one of them.
There are also two settings entries called Personalized and Custom, but I don't know what they are actually. It also has an sRGB, DCI-P3, AdobeRGB, and Cinema setting, and others. I assume their AdobeRGB is 6500K, gamma 2.2, but I don't know for sure, and I don't know what brightness it's optimized for. FWIW, their LG Calibration Studio software often defaults to 100 nits for DCI-P3 calibration so I had to manually change it to 120 nits when programming my Display P3 setting.
When I validated my programmed Display P3 calibration setting using the LG Calibration Studio, average delta error was 1.x, so that's excellent. However, if you look at the individual colours (not including numerous greys tested which were all excellent), 22 out of 24 colours had dE at 2 or lower, but one of the oranges and one of the reds was around dE 3.3ish. Still good but not excellent. As I am not a creative professional, and overall it looks great to me in Photos, I'll continue to use that calibration for now. My Datacolor software does not give such fine grained detail since when I bought it I bought the Pro not the Elite version. I also tried the popular DisplayCal, but it doesn't seem to work on my setup.
As mentioned, there are two spots for hardware calibration. You seem to want to have three. I don't know if that's possible for three different hardware settings. Two will work for sure, but I'm not sure about the third. Maybe you can adjust the Personalized or Custom setting to fit your needs for the third one, but I haven't tried that. But as mentioned, they do have those AdobeRGB and Cinema presets, but again I don't know all the details for those. I will say again though that I am not a creative professional, so maybe others with more experience with calibrating LG monitors can chime in.
