In Reply to: RE: 55" or 65" TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on November 15, 2024 at 13:03:57:
Yes, I remember our earlier chat on this. So far, you are the only one who like me is too badly space challenged for a 65" TV, 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. 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 from my pair of two-way horn speakers is a big concern.
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