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Monitors MUCH dimmer/washed out in MacOS but perfect in Windows10

I cannot figure this out for the life of me...

I have a new Mac Mini 2018. Three monitors are plugged in. Two are plugged in via Thunderbolt to DP, and one is plugged in via HDMI to HDMI. 

 

In MacOS, all monitors appear to be slightly washed out, colors off (some express greens and other colors a little too aggressively, almost neon), and overall a much dimmer look.

In Windows 10, all monitors appear bright, crisp, and wonderful.

 

I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is the case. In MacOS I look over the display options as far as color profiles (all use the same and I have played with other settings), I don't have any dimming software installed or overriding anything, I have attempted to see how they all work in different scaling options and the experience is the same. Very dim, washed out, just terrible. But in Windows 10, clean, crisp, fresh.

Does anyone have ANY idea how this is happening or why? Is MacOS prone to these issues with monitors not 'approved' by them? I'm very unhappy. 

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Probably the color settings.

 

Ensure your running RGB - Full, or YCBCR 444

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Are you referring to the color settings in Mac OS? If so, the color profiles I’ve tried include those. 

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