>>278485
I know that this is probably an insane thing to suggest, but if you happen to not have an attachment to your job, see if there are any electronics recycling facilities near you. I ended up working for one, and I was given free reign to take home whatever I wanted, as long as I kept it and didn't try to resell it like a nigger. I have two Sony BVMs, a Dell Trinitron P1110, and a number of other consumer CRTs - all Trins, except for one smaller JVC. The unfortunate thing is that because they're all from dumps, they've been banged around in transport. There's a shitload of rose tinted glasses in here, and while I obviously agree with all of the upsides of CRT (motion clarity, blacks, contrast, etc) nobody seems to want to remember having to tune your geometry, convergence, lamp hours, and so on. Anything you get your hands on is very, very likely to have been tossed around and left on for a bajillion lamp hours, leaving the screens dim, seeing the individual R/G/B photons due to shit convergence, warped geometry, ghosting due to image smear from lamp hours (removing one of the best benefits) and so forth, and there's only so much you can adjust in the hidden software settings before you need to open the fucker up and physically tune the box, and I don't have the balls to poke my fingers around capacitors with that much juice running through them. Once you get your hands on one, you might be disappointed to