Viewsonic VX2758-2KP-MHD 27" WQHD LED Gaming LCD Monitor, 16:9

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this monitor around August 2020, at the time i was comparing three different monitors, the cheapest 1440p 144hz monitor were AOC CQ27G2 @250$ with VA panel, Acer Nitro VG271U Pbmiipx @300$, and Viewsonic @300$. I ended up buying the ViewSonic because it have a IPS panel and performs similar to the AOC VA panel monitor for $50 more (IPS have better viewing angle, color, black uniformity, low black color smearing etc when comparing to VA; VA have better contrasts). Also not going with the Acer one because the reviews shown more ghosting in general. When I received the monitor, it was exactly what I was expected; great color, deep blacks, high color uniformity, just what you would expect for a mid range IPS panel. Aside from all the things I learned from reviews, there were two things that surprised me: 1. MINIMAL backlight bleeding and amazing black color uniformity! Stressing on the minimal I literally had this monitor displaying a full screen black background and compared it side by side with an older monitor that's turned off. It was barely distinguishable that the ViewSonic monitor is turned on. Only the top right corner had slight backlight bleed that gave it away. I've gone through probably 6-7 monitors in the past 5-6 years, and this is the best one so far in this area. I might had gotten lucky with this unit, but it seems there are some other reviews that echo this finding as well. 2. Speaker I know most people laugh at speakers built in to monitors, but this monitor's speaker is loud, and doesn't sound too bad. For a headphone user that only uses speaker once in a while, this is definitely enough and usable. I can use this for discord without any issues. I had two other monitors with speakers before, and both were hard to hear music, and cannot use for chatting in discord etc.