Dough Spectrum Black 32 OLED review
Formerly known as Eve, Dough is the kind of company you want to like. It's an independent startup with a self-styled community angle rather than a sprawling, faceless corporate entity. And that shows in its monitors, both for better and worse. Notably, there have been some serious missteps when it comes to actually shipping its products. Arguably, that goes with the startup territory.
That startup mentality is also absolutely evident with the Dough Spectrum Black 32 OLED, the brand's very latest PC monitor. It ups Dough's ante to fully 32 inches of glorious 4K OLED action and, just like the original Spectrum, you sense the effort and investment, in terms of design and careful attention to elements like the design aesthetic and build quality, that's gone into this new OLED panel. You just don't see that from the bigger brands.
Where models from more mainstream monitor makers tend to feel a bit cheap, plasticky and mass produced, even at this premium end of the market, the Dough 32 OLED sports a lush metal rear chassis and a gorgeous, beautifully engineered alloy stand, albeit that latter feature is an optional $100 extra.
Add in the slick Corning Gorilla Glass screen cover and minimalist design and you have easily the most physically desirable 4K OLED we've yet reviewed. It makes most of the alternatives feel like cheap, disposable toys.
Screen size: 32-inch
Resolution: 3,840 x 2,160
Brightness: 275 nits full screen, 1,000 nits max HDR
Response time: 0.03 ms
Refresh rate: 240 Hz
HDR: DisplayHDR 400 True Black
Features: LG WOLED panel, Adaptive Sync, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1, USB-C with 100 W PD, Gorilla Glass 3
Price: $1,099 (without stand) | £1,299 (Hub model)
It's also mostly well specified. Dough has gone for the LG WOLED option as opposed to Samsung's QD-OLED tech. There are pros and cons to both panel types, but the LG panel in 4K format is the company's third generation WOLED technology and, importantly, it closes the gap to Samsung for full-screen
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