Unpopular opinion: CRT monitors don't need that much calibration fuss

I keep seeing posts where folks spend hours tweaking geometry settings on old Sony Trinitrons from the 90s. But in my experience, most of those wavy lines and corner issues come from magnetic interference in the room, not the set itself. Last week I moved my KV-27FS100 from next to a subwoofer over to a wooden desk, and about 80% of the distortion vanished without touching a single menu. Has anyone else tried just moving the thing around before diving into the service codes?

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charlie_fisher4524d ago

Moving a CRT is like therapy for it, cheaper than a service menu visit.

schmidt.grant24d ago

Moving a CRT around too much just shakes loose stuff that was already sitting right where it should be. You're basically inviting geometry issues and convergence problems that weren't there before for no good reason. Leave the thing alone unless you actually have to move it, then just pay for the service menu calibration.