The NECs are great, but my vote for best CRT would be the Eizo F56 or T57. Subjectively, I don’t think there’s a lot between the picture quality-wise, but we had fewer issues with the Eizos back in 1996. I fact, I liked them so much I bought 1200 of them! They had power saving features that meant they paid for themselves in about a year… Also, the degauss packed a real punch!