Do a search on "colormunki" and just "munki" on this forum and you'll see some comments about it already.
Terry.

What's a normal result?

Hello,

I have just completed two more calibrations with my brand new Eye One 2. Both calibrations are not good as the 120 target was not even within reach. In 6500 degrees calibration, I had to use 100% brightness without much luck.  Colours are much worse than in the Dell settings. Is it a monitor or a calibrator problem? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Roma

Hello Terry,

Good to hear from you as you are use Eye One 2 with great results posted on the forum. Thank you for the link. I have read this forum a few times by now looking for answers. Very interesting and educational. I will try to put colour settings higher as the monitor does not have colour temperature settings and all colours are set at 50%. Perhaps that explains why black letters do not look black as on my Philips monitor at work.

I am happy to hear your opinion that the Eye One 2 is working. What do you think about LaCie Blue Eye?
Thank you,

Roma

Hello ChasP505,

But in this case I will never be able to reach 120!
Roma

A useful article, and looks like it's an excellent monitor.
After scanning through this report, wonder if Roma is attempting calibration while in one of the pre-set modes (sRGB or AdobeRGB), rather than using the "custom color preset mode" and that's causing problems.
Just a thought and worth checking.
Their RGB values were 82%, 86%, 83%.
That should be a good guide for Roma to get a sensible luminance value and 6500K  
Probably coincidence, but the % values are similar to those I use on my Eizo  

Roma, you asked I know nothing about it, sorry.

PS. I noted that the review of the Eye One Display 2 on that TFT Central web site is now out of date with respect to the software. The software does now have (since 18 months ago at least) a means of validation and giving the Delta E results.

Terry.

Hello,
Thank you for looking into my issue. I have checked all possible modes with the same success. First of all, I went to the X-Rite site and checked if my driver was up to date. No. I downloaded the update and installed a newer driver. Then I checked if the solfware was up to date. No. The latest version is v.3.6.2. I reinstalled it as well.

Then I calibrated the monitor in Standard mode using Native White Point settings with 2.2 and 120. Same result - after brightness was adjusted to 100 it gave me 94.3 reading. The final calibration report is as follows.
Then I calibrated the monitor again in Standard mode using 6500K. Brightness was adjusted to 100 giving only 40.5 reading. The final calibration report is attached.

Then I read Terry's post and decided to check his idea. I used Customs Colour mode and 6500K. Default settings for RGB were 50-50-50. My contract from 100 did not go down at all! Calibrating the colour was very hard as the bars were jumping from one side to another. Though the result was not perfect, at 51-43-49 it was somewhat close. I decided to check it I could get something interesting at the recommended 82-86-83 setting. I put those numbers, and the final (not perfect) result was at 81-70-80. Again, I do not know much about the perfect colour calibration, but I could not get the bars perfectly at ZERO mark. Because the colours numbers were this time higher than before, as expected after adjusting brightness to 100% the reading was 88.5. Still not at 120. Final calibration report is as follows.

When I sat down to write this post, the screen was so bright (100% contrast and 100% brightness) that it was impossible. I had to bring everything back to Standard mode and 30 Brightness - 43 contrast.

I know it sound all very unusual to you, however, I have never seen anybody calibrating a monitor other than an Apple Display, what is different. Please help me to find out what is wrong. It makes me believe that my sensor could be less sensitive fro some reasons, however, when I used a test from the X-Rite site, it passed it without problem. What else could be wrong? What do you do before the calibration?

I tried to use the same devise at work on my display. The same result - Luminance was not even close to 120. I am going to the shop tomorrow to check if they could check my unit or give me another one to test. As they calibrate the Apple Display, I do not expect to help me much. Very frustrating experience, not good yet, but I am willing to get to the bottom of it and learn from you.

Roma