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

 

With my two-way speaker build on hold as the clock ticks towards December 31st when my $1200.00 in Sony card points expire, I am struggling to decide between the 55” or 65” Sony A95L OLED TV. Sitting on chairs at Best Buy, I tape measured 11 ft from the 55”, which looked small, while the 65” looked too big at the same distance.

 

My largely empty living room is 20 ft x 11, with the west side open, crossing a 4 ft wide x 27 ft hallway and into a ~ 10 ft x 9 kitchen and then 3 ft wide staircase. A triangular ceiling that peaks at 11 ft is above it all.   

 

I plan to listen 10 ft from my speakers, with the TV between them and a foot or so behind the horns.

 

I built the 65” (56.9” w x 33” h) cardboard mock and to my eyes at 12 ft the 65” “screen” looks immersive.  

 

I will build the 55” (48.25” x 27.5”) mock as soon as I can get more cardboard from the local supermarket.

 

Meanwhile, it might be very helpful to learn of the experiences of other 55” and 65” TV users.

 

How far are you from one of those screen sizes?  

 

Do you sit on a chair or recliner?

 

Please describe the speakers that you use in place of the TV’s internal speakers, and how far you sit from them.

 

 

ajant
emergingsoul
1,130 posts
 

I would go with Sony just cause I hear they have the best picture. I never use the operating system on my LG and Samsung since I have an Apple TV . TV operating systems are horrifying to deal with. I say this because the Sony operating system is limited as far as getting apps and so forth as I recall.

If there's enough room for the main speakers on the side of the TV then the 65 inch would be worthwhile pursuing. 75 inch TVs would be nice but they are seriously heavy versus 65 inch which is considerably lighter. The 65 inch requires two people where is the 55 inch can be handled with one person if there in good shape.

I use Bowers and Wilkins and maybe I would be better with Sonus faber.  

Since you're really invested in a really good decision I would post a picture of the room since people really taking an interest in this. I don't post pictures and maybe I will at some point but I have to rearrange some things to make it all look pretty it's hard for me to do it. 

freediver
1,173 posts
 

55" screen,14’ from screen to eyes +- a few inches..Sectional couch,Harbeth M30.2Xd speakers,32" in front of screen,24" from side of screen to center of speakers..
I NEVER liked Sony picture,always found it soft,HATE LG after a BRAND NEW,$400.00 LG phone locked up after very first update & LG refused to honor warranty,ABSOLUTELY love all 3 Samsung 3D tv’s I have owned!

incorrigable
35 posts
 

85 inch Sony LCD from Costco. Sound by Yamaha NS-5000's. Paid an electrician $350 to move the rj45 jack (Cat 6e cable) from the garage to beneath my main TV so now everything is hard wired to fiber optic service. TV is also hardwired to a rooftop antenna. $45 by a local guy. 

The building is a newish tract house with PVC pipe strapped to a stud inside the sheetrock with access high and low so all the TV cables are hidden in the pipe. They also placed an AC outlet high where the TV can use it hidden. Same set up in the master suite with older gear. 

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pgreene
4 posts
 

Go BIG! I am looking at a projector hung from the ceiling, and a retractable 110" screen. I don't when to stare at a screen when listening to my hi fi. 

ajant OP
76 posts
 

Bigger=better every time.

NAFTA hasn’t really changed my TV viewing habits.

Don’t mean to rant, but yes, I sure can thank NAFTA legislators, the transnational investor elites they serve and conspirators like these bums for driving up the cost and down the quality and quantity of every basic human necessity-and that goes double for living space-not to mention having zero issues with accelerating climate change. https://fortune.com/2023/12/16/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-human-population-outer-space-mars-spacex-blue-origin/  Indeed, that self-serving mentality has firmly put life on earth on the road to this hideous and terrifying future.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planet_Aqua/O28TEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

An alternate view, though good luck finding parallels even on PBS.

https://www.theglobalist.com/is-population-growth-a-ponzi-scheme/

Meanwhile, let’s not kid ourselves: For a bigger TV to always be better, you need to have adequate space for it, versus space for better audio. Footprints of my speakers and subs will be nearly as big as James633’s. That plus my electronics forces me to count every inch. For me, and I’d think like James633 and most forum members, high performance audio must trump video every time.

So, like Stereo5 and a few others on this thread, I’ve had to face the miserable fact that I don’t have adequate space to do both-at least the way I want to. But at least they don’t seem to find the 55” screen oppressively small, as some even view it from 10 ft or more. The 55” will have to be 10.5 to 11 ft behind the horns, and with the speakers 10 ft from me. Such are the economics of living space on Schiit Island.  

I got lucky last night and picked up this big slab of cardboard; resembles the size of 77” Sony I saw last week at Best Buy. I’ll cut it down to a 55” mock of the A95L and compare it to the 65” mock at various distances.   

 

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