(Reviewed) $400 2560x1440 IPS no-AG 90hz+ Achieva Shimian QH270 and Catleap Q270 - Page 121

Yep. I was told I have bad vision countless times. My vision is perfect though, I guess some people can't see a difference. 

It took a full two days for me so I would say wait until tomorrow to see some movement. I have a tracking number now, but nothing online at - CLICKY - yet. Should be up for me by tomorrow. The little windows that pop from this link - just hit cancel and it will take you to the Korean EMS tracking page (I have no idea what I would be saying OK to!) Oh, and I am assuming you used Dreamseller or your item is being shipped via EMS.

Thanx, yes is dream-seller. I just tried the link and said that tracking info is not found. Does your tracking also starts with EGXXXXXX. If so then i'll give it a tried tomorrow. After you so tracking information in the tracking system, how long did it take you to received it?

Thanks for the pics. It looks like the panel tilt can be adjusted by aligning those 2 screws at the top of the stem. The speakers are very small; how do they sound?

Thanks to Toasty for doing the color profiles for the Catleap monitors. I may have missed how to install them in this seriously long thread so here is a quickie install procedure (Windows 7 - not sure about others).

Go to Display, Screen Resolution.
Select your monitor and click "Advanced Settings"
Select "Color Management" tab
Click "Color Management . . ." button
Click "Use my settings for this device" check box
Click "Add" under the "Profiles associated with this device" box.
Select "Browse" and select the color profiles you want to add - I added all three Toasty made so I could decide which one I liked.
With more than one profile in the box - simply click "Set as Default Profile" to make that one default.

Cheers! Again, a huge thank you to Toasty for these!


Where can I get the 3 files to use for CatLeap???..since my Catleap just arrived would like to play around with your setting.

Where's the 3 files from toasty to play around with?

That will set the color profile to use in color managed programs, but that won't load the profile's gamma correction. You also have to go to the Advanced tab and enable the "Use Windows display calibration" option. The option is grayed out in the initial screen, so you have to click "Change system defaults..." and go to the Advanced tab there to enable it.

However, that uses Windows's LUT loader, which only supports 8-bit values, so gradients will have some banding. I have an alternate method of loading the gamma correction using a third-party LUT loader. This takes advantage of the 10-bit LUT + dithering that AMD/ATI cards have, so gradients stay smooth. I'd like to know if there are any NVIDIA cards where you can use the LUT loader and still have smooth gradients.

I created a zip that includes the LUT loader from Argyll CMS along with the native and d65 color profiles: catleap-profiles.zip

1. Copy the "Color Profiles" folder to C:\ (if you want it somewhere else, you'll have to edit the "Load catleap" shortcuts)
2. Double-click one of the "Load catleap" shortcuts to load the corresponding profile.
3. Copy the shortcut you want to use to the Startup folder in the start menu if you want it to load automatically on boot.
4. If you want color management, you still have to go through the steps mentioned above to set the correct profile, but don't enable the "Use Windows display calibration" option if you're using this method.

You can use this image to test if gradients are smooth:

Edited by ToastyX - 3/6/12 at 1:10pm

Yes on the EMS tracking number - mine starts with EG (both do/did.) Here's what mine looked like:

19:49 29-Feb-2012 Posting/Collection BUSANJIN
Posting office zip code : 614013 Destination country : U.S.A
04:05 01-Mar-2012 Arrival at outward office of exchange INTERNATIONAL POST OFFICE
08:12 01-Mar-2012 Departure from outward office of exchange INTERNATIONAL POST OFFICE Dispatch number : 140
08:44 01-Mar-2012 Handed over to Air carrier INCHEON
09:15 01-Mar-2012 Received by Air carrier INCHEON
16:56 01-Mar-2012 Departure from Airport INCHEON
Flight date : 16:40 Thu 01 Mar 2012 (KST) Flight number : OZ214
10:23 01-Mar-2012 Airrival at Destination Airport SAN FRANCISCO
11:08 01-Mar-2012 Delivered to Destination Airport SAN FRANCISCO
14:29 01-Mar-2012 Arrival at inward office of exchange USSFOA
14:30 01-Mar-2012 Handed over to Customs USSFOA Customs retention reason : Other
15:45 02-Mar-2012 Departure from inward office of exchange USSFOA
08:30 03-Mar-2012 Arrival at delivery office
09:20 03-Mar-2012 Unsuccessful delivery

It gets delivered by the USPS so they tried to deliver on a Saturday when my offices were closed. I'm in Northern California so your results may vary.

Panel tilt? Are you talking about with the stock stand? If so, it does have plenty of tilt, at least it did for me. I don't think you would need to adjust anything inside the unit itself unless you wanted to make serious modifications to the tilt of the stock stand. The two issues that were major for me where one, the tilt left to right of 1/4" - bugged the heck out of me and, two, the wobbliness of the stand itself. If anyone moved within 30 feet of my desk it made the monitor wiggle a little. Of course the only way I noticed this is due to the reflective nature of the bezel so it was quite distracting.

The speakers are fine for what I use them for - simple background. Not the best of course either. I was going to order the non-speaker version for my second monitor, but figured, what the heck - make them both match.

Thanks for the final install advice Toasty. I tried this install and get banding with an nVidia GTS 250 card. I will be changing my current system to run 560tis in SLI and will try again once I make the switch.

EDIT: On my setup the "Use Windows display calibration" was already checked (and grayed out). I didn't make any changes there initially.
Edited by ScribbyDaGreat - 3/6/12 at 12:59pm

I brought mine same day as you eduard, still nothing shows for me too on the EMS tracker.... must have been that Korean Holiday, organising orders and returning emails dream seller must be a bit overwhelmed. Lets be patient and hope our monitors arrive in perfect condition, I wont mind so much then having had to wait.... :