Just went through this same pain, bought and returned 2 different lcd monitors because the picture quality and colour were not acceptable in my opinion. Eventually gave up and just bought a 23" matte mac cinema display, colour is perfect out of the box just had to adjust the brightness slightly.
I bought a 22" Samsung and had to sell it within a week because the colours were so bad. You could be sat infront of it and the colours at the top/bottom and left/right would be different because the viewing angle of the TFT screen was so bad. Since then I've avoided 22" and TN panel screens. I eventually splashed out on a…