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

Always get the bigger TV, always! Every time you watch it, you will be asking yourself if you should have got the bigger one. You are totally overthinking this.I would have a bigger one, but my better half has a thing about the TV hanging over the entertainment center, don't want to buy a bigger one and a bigger TV. 

65 is really not that big, vs a 55, it's less than 10in bigger the way they are measured. Think my bedroom TV is a 55in.

My room is slightly bigger, sit about 12ft back, have a 9.4.2 system, all horn speakers. My TV is a 85in, still thinking about getting a 95-100in. For movies, the center is the most important speaker, think something like 80% of all movie sound comes from the center speaker. Getting all the levels correct is very important. The entire front soundstage should be the same level across the board, where you can't tell if the sound is coming from the center or the sides, unless it's panning, if so it should be seamless. 

The Klipsch R34 is a good little center, easy to place, and not very big. But it is prone to reflections, if you place it on anything, it should be at the edge, so no driver is reflecting off the top of bottom of the cabinet/shelf. It's also good to have all  your HT speakers timber matches, as sounds pan/move they all sound the same.

Tape measure?

That’s when I lost interest.

Went back and looked at the end. I plugged Monsoon 9 planar "PC" speakers into the headphone jack. They sound better to me than any soundbar that I have ever heard, regardless of price and hype.

Living room is only 16 by 18.   Have a Sony 55 inch OLED TV kitty corner and perfect for the size room, as my audio system already takes up much of the room. 

I’d go with the bigger size, every time. My first flat screen was an NEC plasma, followed by a Pioneer plasma, then an LG 65" OLED. All these sat between my main speakers, which are quite large Quad ESL-2905 electrostatic panels. I also have a Velodyne 18" subwoofer up front. No center channel desired or needed.

I have six more speakers for surround and Atmos, two at the rear and four in the ceiling. I also have a pair of KEF Reference 1 speakers which are alternatives to the Quads (they play louder!) and fit between them. The seating is a 3-seat lounge where the outer seats recline.

My partner has a more modest set-up, but has the same size 65" Sony OLED TV between KEF LS50 speakers. plus a sub and two rear speakers. Her chairs are individual recliners.

I’d note that all the speakers I have mentioned by name are designed to emulate point sources of sound and have excellent imaging, which is one reason no center speaker is used.

These systems are in the main living rooms in our respective houses, and fit into a space about 16 feet wide.

The price of TVs is certainly falling! My first LG OLED developed a vertical line after about 5 years, and LG eventually agreed to a full refund. I bought its successor and had half the refund left over!  I'd also take OLED over the current alternative panels every time.  Look from increasing side angles and the reason becomes obvious.

If you have the chance, go to an IMAX theatre and ask if the screen there is too big! Happy viewing ...

I don't even own a TV. 

I watch all my sports and documentary's on my computer. 

Prefer live theater and music.