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

revel’s 226be is a nice sounding slender speaker if you ever wanted more room but I think they lack dynamics/snap next to a good horn. I would keep the horn and rock the phantom center.

I watch a lot of vintage BDs from the 50s through the 70s. While there are some very impressive exceptions- https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/PJ-Blu-ray/258849/

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/North-by-Northwest-Blu-ray/139345/ -the audio of most of my titles were often hit with a lot of dynamic range compression for various reasons.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Big-Heat-Blu-ray/170647/

While the compression may not necessarily make the movies sound as bad as if the audio had clipping (overload) distortion https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Inferno-3D-Blu-ray/174325/ , hum or other audible noise, if you were often to play such content, might the lack of dynamics and flatness of the sound become very fatiguing, even with well-designed horn speakers?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Laughing-Policeman-Blu-ray/155116/

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Parallax-View-Blu-ray/42659/

And since the dynamic range of a recording cannot be restored once it has been compressed-even with software like this https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html?srsltid=AfmBOoprArvJASWIn_nRl5VfwNTUTkD4b1iscv0adPnsn6rzV9aHxAcG -might we then be more inclined to instead choose direct radiator cone speakers for movie soundtracks with such audio quality problems? Perhaps even some of the better turnkey speaker systems?

https://www.crutchfield.com/g_12000/Floor-standing-Speakers.html?fa=1#&price=3070-7130

When is streaming audio quality planned for improvement? It's awful awful awful and could be so much better better better. What the hell is wrong with this planet where they can't do simple things like this?

I started with a 55” with my seating position 12’ from the screen, after a while, it began to look very small!  Switched to a 65” Sony OLED, it was much better, but it, too, began to look small!  Was contemplating an 87” but, bit the bullet when a good deal came up on a 98” and I jumped on it. So far, I’m loving the experience, still at 12’ viewing distance, and wondering how long it will take before, it too, looks small! When it comes to TV’s bigger is better. 

There are formulas that tell you the screen size compared to the number of feet from your eyes to the TV.  This is that when watching a movie your eyes are not playing tennis.  Using that formula I can get a 77 inch screen.

go with the largest TV possible.  A 55 inch is small. Larger than 65 is what you need.  Always go as big as you can.

hahahahaha NAFTA might get me?!