55” or 65” TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey

Hmm, always bigger always. No one ever said I wish I bought a smaller set. 
 

I watch on a 120” screen from 10’ away (pictures in my bio). I also sit 10’ from my speakers (also horns). I own an 83” tv too and it looks so small after sitting in front of my main rig. I sit in a powered recliner. 
 

I would really go bigger than 65. 83” is the new 65”, and for watching wide screen movies from 10’ an 83” is really the minimum. If you are just watching the news and what not it really does not matter what size you go with and 65” is fine. 

I used to watch I Love Lucy on a 55" ... go with the 65"

Go as big as your room will allow.

It`s all about the distance from your viewing position to the screen.

My LR TV is 86". My speakers are 8 ft wide center to center and I sit about 10 ft away picture looks great.

 Go BIG

In my main system, I have a 75" TV.  My speakers are a little over 10' apart and my sitting position is about 10' from the front baffles.  The TV sits a couple of feet behind the speakers.

My living room TV is 65".  I sit about 13' back.  We just use a Yamaha soundbar and subwoofer there.  TV could be bigger, but for general tv watching, it's fine. 

Thanks guys for the great feedback, though things aren’t good with a second look at the numbers. James’ room looks at least 50% bigger than mine, here on obscenely overpopulated, overtaxed Long Island, where the price of living space is equally obscene. Of course, > 3.5 decades of NAFTA driven bipartisan legislated massive over immigration made that inevitable. The 8.9” width difference between the 55” and 65” TVs can matter badly. Nope. On the 11 ft wall, the 65” TV, the speakers plus a foot between the speakers totals 14 ft, not including the subs. Even toeing in the speakers and subs would be a gamble to keep the right speaker and/or sub out of the hallway.

There would be plenty of room to put everything on the 20 ft wall but at least half of the back of my chair would be in the hallway.

The other option might be to place everything diagonally across the room, but that still might not work either.

Last resort for the 65” TV would be to use smaller speakers and dedicate my horn speakers for music listening. Not a desirable alternative, but unless you have a good-sized house Schiit Island’s a bad place to be an audiophile wanting to add a nice TV, where every inch counts here. But I’m stuck here until I retire; should have thought this through better.

Looks like it’s the 55” or nothing. At least that way if I got Revel or Wharfedale tower mains I could then fit a center speaker below the TV and still have my eyes on axis with the screen’s center, as a decent phantom center for movie dialogue my horn speakers is a big concern, though I doubt James has that problem with his JBLs.