Hopefully I'll have a new data point to add here in a couple of days (once the MB and memory get here).
Just picked up a batch 3004B176 from Microcenter yesterday. Pack. Date is 06/02/10 and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, yet. (Unnerving? Exciting? :p)
I'm no expert, but I can attest to this monitor suffering from the usual TN viewing angle problem - yes, I, too, see the grey color shift at the top of the screen on these forums. Nothing I wouldn't expect from a TN panel of this size, however.
Easiest way would be to just get a 3.5mm interconnect cable (male-to-male) and use that to connect the headphone output on the monitor (which seems to be relatively good and clean to my surprise) and connect that to the 3.5mm input on your speaker controller.
If you want to avoid any...
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Right. But I think the point is whether or not you're happy with what you've got. If you don't hear anything great. If you hear it but you couldn't care less, sounds like there's no problem. If it bothers or worries you, by all means get that thing exchanged.
However, I will...