Please do. I find it mildly depressing to think that NEC provides a non-optimum solution for the American market as opposed to the European market.
Rand
I don't think that's the intent. The background to this, as I recall it from the time some years ago when I pressed NEC on the issue (so I'm saying what I learned then in the context of the PA271W etc. series, which may or may not be valid information today), is that the product distinction between Germany and the USA is largely a function of marketing. They produced this Reference Series mainly for the German market because they could charge a premium price there for a "certificated" product, but they assured me the panel is identical between the two markets. As for the software, they contend that either the US-Spectraview approach or the German-based BasicColor approach should produce equal quality profiles. Here's the reasoning: The version of Spectraview bundled with the US product made matrix-based profiles and the version bundled with the product for the German market is under-the-hood a version of BasicColor, which makes LUT-based profiles. The matrix basis depends on nine points, while the LUT basis uses some 250. The contention is that if the panel's behaviour is completely linear, either approach should be equally accurate, and it was NEC's view that their panels are completely linear, so the choice between the two software products is a matter of taste. That's where I chose to disagree with them, because BasicColor gave me lower dE from their internal validation procedure than Spectraview did from theirs. So this means one of two things: either my panel is less linear than NEC made out, or BasicColor is just better software. To this day I don't know which, nor was I or am I bothered about it. I just use BasicColor and be done with it. Our North American prices are far below the prices of those Reference Series panels in Germany and the performance of what we buy here is stellar.