The Dough Spectrum Black 32, Dough's second OLED display, shows promise with its customization options and third-gen WOLED panel. However, it still needs refinement to compete with the best OLED monitors on the market.
Dough Spectrum Black 32 MSRP $900.00 Score Details “The Dough Spectrum Black doesn't quite feel ready for showtime.” Pros Cons Table of Contents Dough isn’t the first brand that comes to mind when you’re talking about the best gaming monitor s. Infamously overambitious, the community-driven brand has found itself in hot water over the past few years with unfulfilled customer orders and a lack of communication with its community.
A big reason for that is the dark-gray finish that wraps around the back side of the monitor, which is constructed fully of metal. Like similar OLEDs I’ve reviewed, such as the Sony InZone M10S, the panel itself is very thin. Dough stuffs all of your connections and the guts of the monitor in a raised section at the back of the display. It’s completely out of view, which makes the monitor feel much thinner than it actually is when viewed from the front.
Features If you’re wondering if the Dough Spectrum Black has a particular feature you might want, there’s a good chance the answer is yes. It’s packed to the brim with extras. The standout feature is the dual refresh rate, allowing you to switch between 4K at 240Hz and 1080p at 480Hz. Like the LG UltraGear Dual Mode OLED, there’s a dedicated button under the front lip of the monitor that changes between the two modes .
My favorite feature is screen emulation, though. The Spectrum Black includes pixel-perfect scaling, and it allows you to emulate a 27-inch, 25-inch, or 21-inch monitor. That’s extremely useful for competitive gamers who are used to playing on a smaller 1080p display, especially considering the 480Hz refresh rate option.
Dough makes the highest-end model worth the money. You’re getting the glossy Gorilla Glass coating, along with DisplayPort 2.1 so you can have the full resolution and refresh rate without DSC — newer OLED options like the HP Omen Transcend 32 are transitioning to DisplayPort 2.1, as well. More importantly, you get a total of four USB ports , along with a USB-C input that’s capable of 100W of power delivery.
Gamut performance, which you can see below, sets the stage for why. In SDR, the gamut is spot on. I’ve seen some QD-OLED panels like the Alienware 32 QD-OLED crack above 90% of AdobeRGB, but for the most recent WOLED options, the gamut here is right. By default, the monitor sticks to DCI-P3, but it has options to clamp the gamut to different color spaces, as well.
The firmware I tested isn’t the final firmware for the monitor, or so Dough tells me. And a firmware update here can fix the lack of proper tone mapping in HDR, as well as the color accuracy issues. Still, this is a fair analysis of the display right now. Dough has been selling this monitor for a while, and based on the Dough subreddit, there are plenty of users with the display in-hand.
Given my results, I reached out to Dough, and it told me it had a firmware update almost ready that addressed some of the issues I noticed. What was supposed to be a delay of a few days ended up being close to two weeks. The firmware update continually failed, even after I resorted to scouring the Dough subreddit for a handful of tips that other users had come up with to get a firmware update to stick.
Gaming A lot of what you need to know about gaming on the Dough Spectrum Black has been covered up to this point. You’re getting flicker-free VRR, BFI for console gaming, and the basically instant response times of an OLED panel. Add on a 480Hz refresh rate, emulation for multiple screen sizes, and pixel-perfect scaling for retro games, and you have a monitor that can handle just about any gaming scenario you can throw at it.
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