ProArt Display PA278QV 27” WQHD (2560 x 1440) Monitor, 100% sRGB/Rec. 709 ΔE < 2, IPS, DisplayPort HDMI DVI-D Mini DP, Calman Verified, Eye Care, Anti-Glare, Tilt Pivot Swivel Height Adjustable

I have an Apple Studio Display and was using a BenQ PD2705U 4k display with my work and home computer setups. The BenQ worked fine and looked decent but it just wasn't bright enough in my office on sunny days. I was considering a 2nd Studio display but needed a KVM that would allow me to switch between my work MacBook Air and my personal M2 Pro Mac Mini. This works perfectly. Single cable connection to the laptop for charging and display and 2 cables to the mac mini. I have the MacBook air connected via the USB C input to provide power delivery as well as the video feed. I have the Mac Mini connected directly via the HDMI 2.1 output on the Mac Mini, and USB devices are shared via connecting a USB-C from an OWC Thunderbolt 3 hub. This setup appears stable and works well. I do not share my Studio Display with the MacBook air so the Asus is just a shared monitor between these 2 devices that I switch back and forth as needed. The monitor shares almost identical panel height with a Studio Monitor so if you have the 2 setting side by side one doesn't look significantly larger than the other. This is much brighter than my old BenQ monitor and the default display profile is very very very close to the Studio Display's default profile as well. If you pixel peep you can see subtle differences in color but for the most part the 2 displays look identical without a lot of tweaking of settings. The color calibration certificate for mine shows a delta for DCI-P3 or .53. For sRGB it's .65. I saw some reviewers that mentioned light bleed from the backlight. I tested this and if you're really looking, in a dark room, there's a little around the edges of my unit but it's so minimal I think it's a non issue. The connections are relatively sparse compared to the BenQ but there are enough so that I can connect the Logitech Bolt receiver in the USB A under the chin of the monitor and share a mouse and keyboard between the 2 computers wirelessly. The cable management is adequate. It accomplishes the task but you do see the cables when you set the monitor to match the height of the Apple Studio Display. Some reviews I read mentioned that the stock stand is a bit wobbly, that hasn't been my experience. It levels and adjusts relatively easily and isn't particularly wobbly although I do have a very stable 4 legged sit/stand setup so perhaps that contributes to the stability. The buttons in the chin work fine. They aren't as convenient as the puck that BenQ uses but once I had the monitor setup I am usually only using the shortcut to switch inputs. The KVM switches reliably although it does take a few seconds longer than the BenQ. It takes about 6-8 seconds. One quirk I found is that I have to switch my logitech keyboard and mouse to connect to my laptop via bluetooth and provide some input to the laptop if the laptop is closed. If I don't, the KVM's auto sensing doesn't detect the signal and just switches back over to the active input. Other than that one quirk everything works as expected. This is an excellent monitor at an amazing price for what you're getting. It has outstanding video quality and color accuracy. It's 5k so it scales with a mac perfectly. The build quality isn't as good as the Studio Display but it's on par with most other monitors. I am super impressed by this monitor and very happy with my purchase.

ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM Review — The Best Prosumer Reference Monitor You Can Buy Right Now The ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM isn’t just another “creator monitor.” It’s the closest thing to a true reference display that most filmmakers, colorists, editors, and hybrid creators will ever touch without spending $10,000+. After using it for real-world grading, editing, gaming, and everyday workflow, I can confidently say this: the PA32UCDM punches in a completely different weight class. This is what happens when OLED precision meets ProArt engineering. Design & Build — Clean, Premium, Purpose-Built ASUS didn’t try to reinvent anything visually here, and that’s a good thing. The PA32UCDM feels like a serious tool: dense, rigid, and built around one mission — color accuracy. The stand is rock solid, adjustment is smooth, and the cable management is thoughtful. The front glass is perfect for grading with zero weird tint. It looks and feels like gear meant for professional post-production suites. Panel Quality — The First Time a “Monitor” Feels Like a Reference Display When you power it on, the first thing you notice is cleanliness. Black levels are flawless. Shadow detail sits exactly where it should. Colors don’t feel boosted, crushed, or manipulated — they feel honest. You get: OLED panel with true blacks Peak brightness over 1000 nits in HDR 100% coverage of Rec.709 100% sRGB DCI-P3 and Rec.2020 support 10-bit color depth Separate color modes for Rec.709, DCI-P3, HDR_PQ, HDR_HLG This is a display engineered so you don’t have to second-guess your eyes. For filmmakers using cameras like the FX30 or FX3, the accuracy in S-Log3 workflows is spot-on. Skin tones sit exactly where you place them. The monitor doesn’t add false contrast or saturation the way consumer OLEDs often do. HDR Performance — This Is Where It Separates From Everything Under $3,000 HDR grading on most monitors is a compromise. On the PA32UCDM, it’s the opposite — it’s finally a workflow you trust. HDR_PQ (DCI) mode is shockingly stable. Specular highlights behave like they do on proper broadcast reference monitors. You immediately see why ASUS designed this panel the way they did. For YouTube HDR, cinematic HDR, or commercial S-Log3 to HDR10 deliveries, this monitor exposes mistakes you would’ve never seen on a normal display — blown highlights, lifted blacks, clipped roll-off, noisy color banding. Color Accuracy — Elite Level Without Needing a $20,000 Monitor What makes this monitor special is that it doesn’t cheat. No artificial sharpening No hidden contrast curves No oversaturation No aggressive tone mapping When you grade in Rec.709, it stays in Rec.709. When you grade in DCI-P3, it stays in P3. When you view HDR, it shows true HDR, not a simulation. Calibrating the monitor is simple with ASUS ProArt Calibration. And once you dial it in, it sits there — reliable, predictable, ready for work. Real-World Use — Editing, Gaming, and Everyday Workflow One of the underrated perks? This monitor is fun to use outside of color work. For gaming: HDR looks ridiculous on OLED. Motion is clean. For everyday tasks: Text is razor sharp at 4K. For creative work: It instantly exposes flaws in lighting, color, and exposure. The only “con” is something you already noticed: going from a curved panel to a flat reference panel makes the edges feel farther away — purely because your eyes were used to curvature. After about a week, your depth perception adjusts. Connectivity — Everything You Need Even though it lacks DisplayPort, the ports that matter are here: HDMI 2.1 (for 4K120) USB-C (DP Alt Mode + 90W PD) Thunderbolt-style workflow compatibility For your RTX 3070 or an upcoming 4090 upgrade, HDMI 2.1 is the best path for 4K120 and HDR grading. Color management issues with HDMI aren’t a problem when you properly set your OS + Premiere Pro color space, which we’ve already dialed in before. The Verdict — The Best Value in the Entire Reference-Grade Monitor Market If you’re a creator who cares about color, this is the one. The ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM gives you: Reference-grade color accuracy OLED blacks with professional consistency The best HDR performance in its class A true Rec.709 and DCI-P3 workflow A price that destroys every competitor offering similar specs There is nothing at $1,800–$2,000 that competes with it. To beat it, you’re spending five figures. Final Rating: 9.8/10 The only thing that would make this monitor “perfect” would be: A DisplayPort option A 27–28" version for tighter dual-monitor setups But for what it is? This is the best prosumer reference monitor on the market, period.

A review from over a year of owning this: I got this to do art and occasionally play games. Refresh rate is great, especially when gaming or editing 60fps videos. Screen is the perfect size for my desk and I love that I can extend it and use it when I’m standing. Color is excellent and I appreciate the ability to check real life dimensions from within the screen. I have no dead pixels and I’ve been using it for over a year with no issue. While the brightness is adjustable and can go pretty high, there’s a bit of screen burn-in (that fades given time) which is to be expected. I generally keep to the default sRGB and lower brightness to avoid this because it can mess with color appearances which isn’t ideal for art. The only major downside of this is that the speakers are really poor quality. I got some cheap, 20+ year old external speakers to plug in because it really was that bad and the cheap external speakers are significantly better. If you are editing videos with audio or like to listen to music while you work, you’ll need headphones or speakers. I’d almost rather this monitor didn’t come with built in speakers as it feels like such a waste for something so poor quality. But I suppose if you just need something to hear alerts or notification sounds, it could be just what you need. Overall, I’m a very happy digital artist with this monitor!

The color accuracy and monitor features are hugely better than anything in this price range. The effective resolution of a clearly viewable screen match the native resolution of the screen. If you need higher resolution the ProArt line of monitors are all better than average values.

I really wanted to like this monitor. On paper, the specs look perfect — 5K resolution, wide color gamut, “MacBook-friendly” marketing, and a professional design aesthetic. In reality, it’s been one of the most disappointing purchases I’ve made. 1. Poor macOS compatibility If you’re a Mac user, be warned: this display does not support true HiDPI scaling in macOS. That means text and icons look fuzzy and slightly blurry compared to Apple’s own Studio Display or even a cheaper 4K Samsung monitor. macOS can’t show the usual “Larger Text ↔ More Space” scaling slider, so you’re forced into awkward resolutions that either make text too small or unsharp. For a product advertised as “Mac-optimized,” this is unacceptable. 2. Over-saturated colors out of the box Even in the so-called sRGB or DCI-P3 modes, the colors look over-boosted and unnatural. Without hardware calibration gear, it’s almost impossible to match the look of a MacBook display. This completely defeats the purpose of a “creator-class” monitor. 3. Eye strain and lack of ambient adjustment Brightness can’t adapt automatically to room light, and the backlight feels harsh. Within a few hours I was getting eye strain — something I’ve never experienced with Apple’s own displays. 4. Misleading “for creatives” marketing ASUS markets this ProArt line as professional, color-accurate, and “Mac compatible.” But in practice, these panels don’t integrate well with macOS’s scaling or color management pipeline. A $200 consumer Samsung display looked better and felt more comfortable to use. If you’re on macOS, save yourself the frustration and buy an Apple Studio Display (even refurbished). It just works — no hacks, no fuzzy text, no guessing which resolution looks least bad.

If you’re using this to have a color accurate reference monitor by using a deck link mini monitor 4K or something similar, be sure to use displayCal and set the monitor to its rec709 color space before correcting (it’s also suggested to first color correct your monitor using asus pro calibration while plugged into your GPU prior to hooking up to your deck link and then calibrating through resolve/display cal). The native color space uses a wide gamut and it will not look correct if you’re trying to apply rec709 correction through DaVinci resolve/ display cal. I was very unsure of which color space I wanted to have the monitor preset on as there’s not a lot of information on this, but after quite a bit of research, it’s suggested to not use the native preset at all for grading as it’s their least accurate preset. Unless you’re planing on using this monitor for HDR grading then you probably know what you’re doing, if not, it’s more or less the same. Overall fantastic monitor, be sure to use a flash drive to update to the latest firmware which you can find on the asus website. Mine was three versions Old, the latest firmware fixes the very loud fan noise (which is silent now), and some other fixes. Keep in mind if you’re not using the Thunderbolt and are only using HDMI you will need to run a USB-C to your computer in order for the firmware update to work. As you can tell this monitor was a bit of a learning curve for me and I’m trying to include all the tips I can remember just in case this is your first monitor like this. It’s 100% worth buying, I had an older LED pro art And that doesn’t even come close to how beautifully accurate this monitor is. I was in the middle of several projects and went back through and made quite a few changes and it helped immensely. 100% recommend even if you’re planning on using this for simpler work and you don’t need the accuracy of a true reference monitor. Still very good even run through your GPU. Especially if you also game..

I'm a book and magazine designer, and I needed a monitor for the Mac mini I just got to replace my iMac. I have a secondary display that I've been using, but its highest resolution is 1920x1080, so it doesn't give me much screen space when I work. I should say that I mostly work in InDesign, and don't do a lot of photo adjustment (typically any imagery has been touched up before it gets to me), and I do no video work, aside from watching videos online, and I'm not a gamer. The picture quality, color, brightness are great for me, and the price is right for a display with this level of resolution. Youtube, Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix, all look great. Love it. My only complaint is the speakers, oddly enough. I like to listen to podcasts and radio shows as I work, but don't always want to have headphones in (my wife tends to come up behind me and scare me half to death when I wear them). My old iMac had great speakers, the mini has one little speaker thats okay, but a bit tinny. The speakers on the display are almost painful to listen to. It's like a 1950's AM transistor radio. Plus, once you move over to the speakers, you lose all ability to control the volume with your keyboard. This is typical, but getting to the point where you can adjust the volume on the display takes working through the menu - 8 button clicks, that aren't very intuitive, before you can even turn the thing down or up. Otherwise a great display. If you're using it with a Mac mini, do yourself a favor and find a good quality USB-C to HDMI cable. I tried it first with Apple products (Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, then a Thunderbolt 2 cord to the mini-DVI on the back of the display). Didn't work - could have been a defective adapter, but the cord I ended up with was $11.99, as compared to about $70 for the Apple stuff, and works fine. Aside from the speakers - 5 stars.

I purchased this for a Mac mini M2 I had just purchased, based on it appearing on several reviews that listed this monitor as existing in the sweet spot between affordability and quality. Of course, I'm sure it's not as sharp or takes as full advantage of the mini's picture quality like Apple's recommended Mac Studio Display, but the Mac Studio's $1599 price tag would've made irrelevant the reason I bought the Mac mini in the first place vs. an iMac, which was my previous computer of choice since 2009. So accepting that, I am very satisfied with this monitor. However, having only owned all-in-one packages like the iMac in the past, it was a bit of a learning curve in adapting to a separate computer monitor. I'm still playing with the picture quality/resolution, brightness and blue light levels to find the right balance—I will say that the monitor is certainly plenty bright. I keep brightness nearly at the lowest level! The adjustment in height and tilt (let alone vertical rotation) are terrific features. I also purchased this for the additional USB ports, so it acts as a USB hub too for peripherals. Note that in order for the USB hubs to work, you have to plug the USB 3.0 square connector cable into the monitor and the regular USB connector on the other end into the mini! At first I thought it was just an additional cable as an alternative to the HDMI cable (also provided!), but it turns out that this cable is what powers the USB hubs/ports on the monitor, so be sure to use and connect it! The paper instructions are all visual, no words, so it wasn't clear to me that this cable was essential, but after about 10 minutes of fiddling and googling to see why the ports might not be working, I figured it out. Hopefully, this observation will save some people a bit of grief lol. Fortunately, my existing hub for my peripherals (scanner, external drives) worked fine, but it's nice having these additional ports to charge/connect my iPhone and other occasional peripherals I use. It's saved me for now from having to buy a USB hub I was contemplating for the mini to give me more ports. I should add that I read that connecting the mini purely via HDMI didn't take full advantage of the mini's graphics card, so in advance of the delivery of both the mini and the monitor, I purchased a USB C to HDMI adaptor. The only "drawback" (which is not on ASUS, more on the user if you opt for the Mac mini) is that it doesn't have a built in video camera. Who knew that I'd need one so soon after purchasing the new system lol? So I have just purchased a cheap one off Amazon that should solve that problem. Anyway, very pleased with this product.