I remember at an old job I needed to go around to a few people's PCs in the office. I couldn't believe the head IT guy had left everybody's CRT refresh set on 60Hz. Damn, did he hate those people or something? I normally wouldn't mess with people's settings, but out of mercy I had to change that. I wonder if anybody noticed.
My CRT at that job was hilarious. It was a Viewsonic "flat" screen - meaning it was a curved screen with an oddly shaped piece of thick glass on the front so that the frontal surface could be called "flat".
At home, I loved my Sony Trinitron.. for a year. When new, it was the most beautiful monitor I'd ever seen. It could handle 1600x1200 at 85Hz - a bit fuzzy at that res but beautiful for games (better than my current monitor, still). The desktop was nice at 1280x1024. Then it just completely fell apart. It still sickens me how much money I paid for that thing, only to have the color contrast go completely to hell after 1 year, and the fact that I tossed it.
I found out much too late that it might have been fixable. I really wish I had it back today.
I'd like to have a CRT for a retro PC, but what's most important to me is keeping a CRT television for console games. I didn't spend all my childhood playing these games on real TVs to be mocked in adulthood by a friggin' time delay. Screw that, I won't put up with it.