X120e Sound and Display question...

Hey, I'm enjoying my x120e that I purchased earlier this year. I still love my T61 I purchased in 2008.
Couple of things though: the sound and screen.
Sound - does anyone else have hiccups with the sound where it makes a sort of long buzz through any playback for a time? If not, I need to mail in for servicing (unless I need to do a clean install or it's something I can fix).
The display is garish, and ultrabright. Has anyone had success with switching the panel to something else?
Thanks,
Erin

If the buzzing sound only happens after resuming from sleep, there was a bios update for it long time ago. Make sure you update to the latest BIOS.
As for the screen, yeah it's pretty bad for the viewing angles, there are several panels that are being used but I dont think you could request one specific part # to be replaced. I think It was a Samsung panel that was reported to be better than the LG. I had one with LG, and it was pretty crappy if not looking straight at it.
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Maybe I'm just an idiot, too dumb to correctly copy and apply color profiles or to use alsa/pulseaudio the correct way. If so I would be very happy about anyone who would lead me in the right direction. Perhaps someone stumbled over the same problems and has some fixes or at least ideas where to look at. Perhaps someone calibrated his 3k display with a professional colorimeter and is willing to share the results.
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Here's another profile I stumbled upon. It was made for the T540p shipped with the same display. It is a little more even, so less different colours in the overall grayscale and it has a better gamma curve. But it has an overall greenish touch just like the display without any profile but considerably less.
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And to prevent users from searching I upped the profile from my last post to my blog, too:
http://mein-neues-blog.de/files/LEN40B5.icm
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