Thinking...
Possible theories
specific to your condition:
- Screen coating issues (all of your monitors are not glossy)
- Low color gamut (all of your monitors are 72%-102% sRGB), less than many TVs and phones.
- Inconsistent ghosting (some of your monitors are VA panels)
- Extreme close distances to extremely big bright displays.
You may be affected by the LED phosphor formula of cheaper 72% NTSC and 99% NTSC LED edgelights. They emit a fair bit of awful blue light that requires actual physical orange glasses. Current digital Low Blue Light modes
cannot fully block blue light from these 72% and 99% sRGB cheap white edgelight LEDs, especially during dim greys and blacks. A workaround is to put actual physical orange filters onto the screen, or wear actual physical orange glasses. Even the Samsung G7 (QLED with best color gamut) only reaches 98% sRGB and only 86% DCI P3, which often leaves a lot of cheap LED blue light unconverted.
1.
Wide-color-gamut IPS panel... Even KSF phosphor based. Beautiful dazzling colors as long as you're
not using strobing with KSF. The color gamut of these displays are roughly desktop equivalents of 4K IPS TVs. Either LG27GL850 or ViewSonic XG270QG are great examples.
135% sRGB color gamut and near 100% DCI-P3! More pleasing on the eyes, if the film is not the culprit.
2.
Glossy OLED TV as monitor... Use a 42" or 48" LG OLED HDTV for use as a desktop monitor. The newer 2021 LG OLED is becoming available shortly in these smaller 42" and 28" formats. They all support 4K 120Hz G-SYNC, and are glossy.
3.
Bias lighting... If having a big display, add a bias light behind your screen (dimmable LED bulb). You can buy stick-on LED ribbons for back of monitor, or for a quick hackjob for testing, you can buy a cheap plastic $10 WiFi bulb (preferably CRI90 dimmable) and a
light socket adaptor, hang it from a common 2-pring extension cable from the rear of your monitor stand, and call it a day with bias lighting. Sub 10-watt LED bulbs don't have the old fire hazard of past lightbulbs.