2025 is the year display makers finally put out a bunch of 32″ 6K displays, and the best one is from a Chinese brand you probably have never heard of.
I figured Kuycon’s “We have the Pro Display XDR at home” would superficially look like a Pro Display XDR but otherwise feel like a cheap knockoff. I initially filed it away mentally, holding out for LG’s 32″ 6K display. I’ve been a loyal LG Ultrafine customer for almost a decade and I assumed the 6K display was the next logical choice.
But LG’s 6K display gave me the ick shortly after I had it set up.
Almost immediately, I could tell the matte plastic screen looked just awful. Contrast was way lower, colors weren’t quite right, and the diffuse pattern made looking at text blurry. LG’s great display panel produced a beautiful picture, and the rest of the display did its best to prevent me from enjoying it.
What’s worse, the display’s enclosure and stand are flimsy plastic. The Ultrafine 4K and 5K displays had a pretty basic black enclosure that wasn’t fancy but looked fine (you could even call it… Ultrafine 😎). The Ultrafine 6K wants to look like a high-end aluminum device, but it’s just plastic and plastic pretending to be metal never looks good. My 4K and 5K displays are plastic too, but they were at least honest in their design.
Also, my first impression of the LG was worse because mine was defective (it had non-working USB ports). But even if everything was working, I just wasn’t happy with the display.
So I was back at square one, and unfortunately, all the other options from reputable display makers also used matte screens (and they were all kind of ugly too).
So I checked out the Kuycon G32P’s reviews, and they were all pretty positive.
Its enclosure is aluminum and glass, and that glossy glass front gave me hope.
And the best part: this monitor is using the same LG panel all these monitors are using. LG’s panels are good and that gave me confidence the monitor would be fine.
Long story short, I love it, and it’s actually priced a little cheaper than LG’s display.
I do miss embedded stuff like speakers, mic and camera that I had in my Ultrafine 5K (the Ultrafine 6K dropped the mic and camera too though).
But the G32P is the real deal.
It looks absolutely beautiful, both as a piece of kit, and the picture quality is great too with the glass front. There’s a tiny bit of a grain pattern that isn’t present on my Ultrafine 5K, but it’s only visible at certain angles and I suspect is related to the antiglare finish on the glass.
The display wakes up just as fast as the Ultrafine 5K it sits next to (weirdly the Ultrafine 6K took longer to wake up from sleep).
Colors look great out of the box. They’re bright and saturated looking and to my eye it’s got excellent color accuracy.
One thing you don’t get with this display is a high refresh rate. This display is 60Hz, which is on par with other displays of this size and resolution, and I’m actually not sure if it’s possible yet to drive this many pixels at 120Hz quite yet with the latest Thunderbolt. I love having a 120Hz display on my iPhone, but for my computers, I’m happy to compromise ultra-smooth motion for more real estate any day.
I’m a few weeks in and it feels like an appliance. When not in use it looks great at my desk, and when it is in use it fades into the background as I focus on the screen content.
## Why 32″ 6K?
Long story short, I love displays with a ton of screen real estate.
Having a bigger monitor literally makes your more productive ([seriously](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/productivity-and-screen-size)). Nothing beats being on a screen with tons of real estate. When I have to work on my laptop screen doing a task that involves multiple apps I just feel cramped.
And you can’t just pick the screen with largest diagonal size and call it a day. I see lots of big 27″ and even 30″ displays (and sometimes ultrawide displays) that are still just 4K resolution, or some big 38 to 40 inch displays that are 5K resolution. When you make the screen bigger but don’t add more resolution, you’re getting bigger pixels and you lose crispness.
I read text for a living, and it makes a big difference to have a monitor with pixel density on par with printed paper.
## Parting Thoughts: 👍️
At about $1800-1900 shipped, this monitor in the middle of the price range. You can get an Asus display at this size and resolution for about $1300. LG’s is $2k, Dell’s Ultrasharp 6K is over $2k (but there are often sales). You could go high end and get Apple’s Pro Display XDR if you are willing to drop $6k. In fairness, the Apple display has some pro-level color fidelity and brightness levels, but for me that display was overkill and I didn’t buy one to complement my Mac Pro back in 2019. I just wanted a nice display that’s big.
Kuycon isn’t a brand new company; they’ve been around for a little over a decade, but I think they’re new to selling in the US.
It felt like a riskier buy, spending $1800 on a relatively unknown brand (in fact, my credit card company flagged the transaction as potential fraud on the first try), but I’m glad I did. And you can even buy this display on Amazon now for the same price, which might assuage some anxieties.
The G32P gets my hearty endorsement, and I’m rooting for Kuycon. I like mine enough that I’m severely tempted to get a second on in 2026.
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