Von dem Test, den man ja leider nicht mal kostenlos überlfliegen kann, habe ich auch schon gehört. Scheint mir allerdings zumindest zweifelhaft zu sein, da zumindest das Spyder 2 für wide gamut Displays ungeeignet ist und somit wohl kaum besser sein kann als das i1 Display 2. Zudem wurde schon in einem anderen Thread erwähnt, daß die Preise, die zur Zeit des Tests für das i1 Display "2" angegeben wurden, ehr zum Display 1 passen, was ebenfalls die schlechten Ergebnisse begründen könnte.
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Biges: I am in doubt about the results of the test within this magazine because of several aspects that have already be mentioned in another thread.
In this test the Display 2 received very low scores. On the other hand the Spyder 2 received very high marks.
If you consider that the Spyder 2 is not able to calibrate wide gamut displays correct something has to be odd with this test.
The combination of Monitor, Colorimeter and Software seems to be quite important. The colorimeter has to be able to detect the full gamut of the monitor, the software has to detect the colorimeter (knowing the characteristics of this device) and the software should know the monitor to correct the look up tables as good as possible - maybe even within the monitor ("true" hardware calibration).
Just during the last few days I calibrated my monitor for two different computers that are both connected to the screen. One uses the Spectraview II software, the other one uses the Spectraview Profiler Software.
Both calibrations are somehow different but I can't describe the differences. Sometimes the Profiler 4 produces an extraordinary neutral greyscale, sometimes it looks a little bit different.
I still prefer the calibration result with the Spectraview II Software that even takes less time and seems to produce results within a smaller variation range.
On the other hand the DeltaE values are smaller when using the the Spectraview Profiler 4 - at least when the colorimeter had some time for warming up.
*sigh* It's hard to decide which one is really better.