3 monitiors 3 different looks despite calibration

[Hali]

Hi all, this has been bugging me for a while and no matter what I do I can't seem to fix it.
I have 3 monitors I use with my computer (I know, woe is me ) 2 are older NEC MultiSync monitors, one is a wide angle the other (the oldest) is a normal gamut. My newest monitor is a BENQ 2K monitor. The BenQ and the wide gamut look pretty close, but not identical, but on the "normal" gamut NEC the colors always look very washed out. This goes for lightroom, PS, and all my web browsers. I regularly calibrate the monitors. I use the NEC Spectraview for the two NEC monitors, and I use an iDisplay Pro with Palette Master Software from BenQ.
Any ideas how to fix this, or if it is fixable without having 3 of the same monitors?

TIA

 

[ACEkin]

Hi all, this has been bugging me for a while and no matter what I do I can't seem to fix it.
I have 3 monitors I use with my computer (I know, woe is me ) 2 are older NEC MultiSync monitors, one is a wide angle the other (the oldest) is a normal gamut. My newest monitor is a BENQ 2K monitor. The BenQ and the wide gamut look pretty close, but not identical, but on the "normal" gamut NEC the colors always look very washed out. This goes for lightroom, PS, and all my web browsers. I regularly calibrate the monitors. I use the NEC Spectraview for the two NEC monitors, and I use an iDisplay Pro with Palette Master Software from BenQ.
Any ideas how to fix this, or if it is fixable without having 3 of the same monitors?

TIA

This may well be the expected behavior and the fundamental difference between monitors with different gamuts. I have a 27" NEC which I calibrate with SpectraVision using i1 Display Pro. When I view images using applications that are not color space aware, the colors look garish. But in Lightroom or Photoshop, they look fine. To eliminate the difference between at least the NEC monitors, you may consider changing the gamut setting on the wide gamut (most likely almost Adobe RGB) one to sRGB and see how it compares to the normal gamut (most likely sRGB). After calibrating them to the same brightness levels and color settings, see if they appear closer.

I have several writings on my site about calibration and workspace environment.

 

[Hali]

This may well be the expected behavior and the fundamental difference between monitors with different gamuts. I have a 27" NEC which I calibrate with SpectraVision using i1 Display Pro. When I view images using applications that are not color space aware, the colors look garish. But in Lightroom or Photoshop, they look fine. To eliminate the difference between at least the NEC monitors, you may consider changing the gamut setting on the wide gamut (most likely almost Adobe RGB) one to sRGB and see how it compares to the normal gamut (most likely sRGB). After calibrating them to the same brightness levels and color settings, see if they appear closer.

I have several writings on my site about calibration and workspace environment.

Hi Cemal! Thanks for the quick reply. I should have written that I have the gamut setting on the wide gamut to the SRGB when I first got the monitor, I never noticed this much of a difference until after I got the BenQ which I can't get to match either, but that's probably because it's a 2K monitor as well as not being NEC (sadly NEC is not making monitors anymore). THen again, maybe that's changed and I should go check it. Thank you for the idea!

I will go to your site and read some of the articles you have there too.