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Originally Posted by Mikenificent1 /forum/post/16943545
that's because the wall is a matte finish, like I've been saying all along, gain destroys picture detail and ultimate sharpness. Maybe it's not too late to change your material to Studiotek !00?
The thing is, in practice, I do not find that to be so. In general the same image made brighter will also tend to appear sharper. I've tested out the Stewart ST130 against neutral gain screens and while up close the pixels look very similar, if anything the edge to the neutral gain screens, from further away I find it easier to see the detail of the picture on the slightly higher gain screen and it appears a tad sharper.
Along the same continuum, I'm amazed at what a very high gain screen like the Da Lite High Power screen does for an image, when compared to a neutral gain screen. It makes the image look super sharp and detailed, like getting a new display (I've done the comparison several times with my HP screen and with other people's HP screen compared to neutral gain screens).
So, at least in my experience, whatever minimal precision may be lost at the pixel level (if there is indeed any of consequence) seems to be quite made up for by the increased visible detail and apparent sharpness in actual images, when I add gain.
(At least with some gain screens).