What to buy?
Top10 universal and closest to universal monitors on the consumer market (September, 2009).

1. NEC 2490WUXi
2-3. NEC 3090WQXi and NEC 2490WUXi2
4-5. NEC 2690WUXi2 and Dell 3008
6-7. Dell U2410 and Gateway XHD 3000
8. HP LP2475w
9. NEC 24WMGX3
10. Dell 2709w

Why not Eizos?
Those excellently equipped monitors typically features PVA panels only.
At the same time they are ridiculously overpriced that puts them out of recommendation list. They have an interesting 27" model to enter Top 10 at 6-8 place, but $1700 for PVA is out of the question.