24 inch LED display has strong odor

Hello,
I got the display for about 10 days now and every time the display is on for a short period of time (less than 7 mins), the display has a strange odor coming from the left side (if you were facing the display) speaker grill (where the hot air comes out).
The odor smells like electrical burn, basically it smells like very very mild burned plastic or electrical smells to it. At first I thought it is being new and it will go away but it is really not. This is a very strong smell.
I also made sure there is no plastic covering the exhaust grill and everything. Has anyone notice this problem? I am in contact with Apple with the problem already.
The early Mac Pro had the same smelly problem that posted in this forum many months ago.
Has anyone notice this problem?

there was definitely some sort of odor with mine as well. It wasn't offensive, but noticeable, but it went away after a few days. Maybe you just have a more keen sense of smell which is why you can still smell it.

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