Should I get my monitor calibrated?

[DavePS3]

Almost all panels come out of the box 'hot'. Color's cranked up... contrast is the highest it'll go... fixing it is easy. Start with contrast. Take a Blu-Ray and freeze frame the disc on the end credits of the film - white letters on black background. Take the contrast just below where the white letters start to 'bloom' or bleed out (fuzzy edges). Then work on your brightness. Take you best looking disc and run a chapter that has good shadows and natural light. You want to see detail in blacks like a black suit but not so high as to make the blacks look gray. From there. work on the color setting. Take it all the way down to almost B&W then slowly up from there. Have enough color in the faces to look natural, not overblown to impress visitors and faces look orange. From there, do your tint and faces are best to work with. Neither green or red. Check the panel's pre-sets like 'warm, cool' etc... cool will usually put more blues into the whites like Sony likes to do but in the real world, whites are not that stark... not that bluish but it's up to you.

What's too dark to one guy is too light to another so work with how you like the oic yourself.