Well I think I'm going to get a ViewSonic P95f+. It is by far the best monitor I've seen yet. The Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB may or may not be better, but I can't seem to find a store that has one. I'm very apprehensive about buying a monitor I haven't seen.
I did get a look at a couple more top notch models. The best being a NEC FE991SB. I read somewhere that this monitor is actually a Mitsubishi 930SB, just with the NEC branding on it. I have no idea if that is correct or not?
Side by side, the P95f+ was clearly superior to the FE991SB in every way that I could see, though the NEC was quite good as well. When I arrived at the store, the NEC was not on display, so I asked a salesman if he could pull one out of the box and set it up.
It was blurry as hell, at first (normal for a crt), but after fully warming up (I gave it about 30 minutes), it cleared up pretty well. It never did reach the sharpness of the ViewSonic at any resolution I tried. The colors were far less vibrant as well, but I feel that this may be due to it's rather bright default settings. Black level was set, by default, to much higher than optimal for the ambient light in the store (it was rather dark with flourescent lights). Unlike the Samsung 997DF, I was able to get it to true black with a little tweaking; but that threw off the gamma, and made it look a bit on the green side. With proper gamma tweaking, it might look as good as the ViewSonic, but this is difficult to do by eye, without any calibration images to assist me. I'd like to see them both, calibrated by hardware to 2.2 gamma, but of course that's not possible in a store.
Both monitors had dead on geometry at default settings. I could not detect any blatent defects in either of them, but even at the highest resolutions, text and images were sharper and more focused on the P95f+.
Overall, the P95f+ is a beautiful monitor. The colors are just gorgeous (something ViewSonic is often praised for). Text is very sharp. I could not really point to anything I disliked about it. In many of the reviews I've read around the web, the P95f+ is often faulted for being a bit blurry at the highest resolutions. I did detect a definate increase in this fuzzyness at the highest resolutions, but relative to every other monitor I looked at, it was the best.
I hope the one I receive is as good as the two I looked at, and I'll be happy for a couple years.