Great monitor. I am sure they were lol'ing when they said that it had rich bass. Not expecting much from onboard speakers, but saying that they have rich bass is a very far stretch. Sounds like music from a tin can to be honest. Other than that, the monitor performs well. Does randomly flash from time to time.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] 5 years in and still going strong, not a single issue! I wanted a 49" monitor with speakers to clean up my desk and to remove the bezels from my multiple monitors. This single super-ultra-wide 49" monitor w/speakers just made more sense than my three monitors that were side-by-side and stand alone speakers. I literally only need two cables now (1-Power & 2-DP). Now there is nowhere for dust bunnies' to hide behind the monitor - oh and it has the added benefit of freeing up two of my display ports on the video card and power strip plugs not to mention all the speaker wires! Happy camper here - my only regret was not doing it sooner. While the sound isn't as good as a high end dedicated speaker by any means, it has been great for everything I've needed it for. Really good L/R separation helps with games and voices and music sound great too. A friend recently purchased the new ASUS ROG 49" w/speakers and let me tell you my 5 year old LG blows it out of the water with sound quality. If I need audiophile sound Ill just put my high-end headphone on. I'm extremely happy with this LG purchase, my next one will be another LG, albeit one with more of a curve to it and higher resolution since video cards have evolved to easily handle it nowadays.

Overall, this monitor is pretty amazing. All of the typical image quality features are solid: brightness, contrast, saturation, color matching, etc. It works great for creative purposes, like photo and video editing. However, given the price, I can’t give a five-star review with some of the shortcomings. On several of my Mac computers, it randomly blacks out for a couple seconds every couple of hours. I’ve tried numerous cables and multiple Macs of varying chip architecture (e.g. Intel, M1, M2, etc), so it seems likely related to something with the monitor. Also, there are infrequent times where I have to power cycle because the control button in the back will stop being responsive. (Bear in mind that I’m using it with a two computer setup, so I change input sources multiple times a day. Maybe it’s too much for the unit to handle?) Also, it seems a bit sketchy with how well it responds to monitor control over DDC/CI protocol. I couldn’t get the native LG software to work, but use third party ones with pretty good luck! Lastly, I highly leverage it’s use as a KVM of sorts. I have USBs and audio connected that all feed from a Thunderbolt connected device. At times, audio stops passing through until I do a power cycle.