Eizo FlexScan EV2460
The king of 24in professional displays, but Eizo is asking a high price in return
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PRICE £228 (£274 inc VAT) from lambda-tek.com
With any other manufacturer, £274 inc VAT buys you a 27in monitor. Eizo isn’t just any other manufacturer, though. There’s a heft to the EV2460 that suggests top-quality electronics, and that’s reflected in the best OSD on test: it’s blissfully simple to make changes, thanks to front-mounted buttons matched with sensible icons that pop up to show you what to do.
Say you want to switch from the sRGB profile to Movie. There’s no digging around in a complex menu, with six presets available within a button press or two. Naturally, image quality is the best around, as reflected by its brightness deviation across the screen; compare its results in the graphic below to that of the Iiyama. While its cheaper rival actually beats it for coverage of the sRGB gamut, and offers a marginally better Delta E, the difference will be near-impossible to spot in practice. Eizo’s excellent 1,304:1 contrast ratio and accurate colour temperature will be far more obvious to the eye.
You have a plethora of inputs to choose from: DVI, VGA, DisplayPort and HDMI. There’s no USB-C input, but compensation comes in the form of a USB hub. Two of its four USB 3 ports p sit i on the h lf left side, id along l with ih a headphone h jack and line out, and it’s easy to access the other two, thanks to a solid yet flexible stand. The FlexScan smoothly rotates into portrait mode, while a 344° swivel makes it easy to share what’s on your screen with neighbours. Note its 140mm height adjustment too. This screen’s only real weakness is its speakers, which are all treble and no bass.
Eizo provides unmatched support thanks to a five-year on-site warranty, and one of the reasons it can do this is its excellent reliability – as proven through many years of feedback in our annual Service & Reliability survey.
Despite all these positives, the Iiyama wins our recommendation as the 24in monitor of choice simply due to its price. The fact it comes so close to matching the Eizo for quality while costing half as much is incredible. But if you want the very best, the EV2460 is the monitor to buy.