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Post by M57 on Mar 12, 2023 14:16:21 GMT -6
I highly recommend the LG DualUp. Been using it for a couple weeks and I love it. Ideally suited for a DAW. It's the same size as two stacked 24" screens. So it's slightly higher than it is wide. It also comes with a fantastic desk mount with a very heavy duty articulating arm. Matte finish to the screen. Really everything I was looking for. It can also take two different input sources and split the screen if you need such things. Honestly... buy it. Try it. Return it if you don't like it. I bet you'll keep it. Really interesting. In my studio it would mount to an elevated desk tier. Even with the articulating arm affording the bottom of the screen to touch the deck, I'm guessing the middle of the screen would be at or slightly above eye-level. My concern is that it could be uncomfortable if I need to look up a lot. |
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Post by RealNoob on Mar 12, 2023 17:20:54 GMT -6
I have 3ea 27" LG's. They are truly for double duty, work PC on one, mac on two. Since I do video work as well, I feel the LG's are pretty true to color without having to spend money on purpose built monitors. they can be bright in a dark room but with adequate light, it balances for the eyes just fine.
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Mar 14, 2023 9:38:39 GMT -6
I highly recommend the LG DualUp. Been using it for a couple weeks and I love it. Ideally suited for a DAW. It's the same size as two stacked 24" screens. So it's slightly higher than it is wide. It also comes with a fantastic desk mount with a very heavy duty articulating arm. Matte finish to the screen. Really everything I was looking for. It can also take two different input sources and split the screen if you need such things. Honestly... buy it. Try it. Return it if you don't like it. I bet you'll keep it. Really interesting. In my studio it would mount to an elevated desk tier. Even with the articulating arm affording the bottom of the screen to touch the deck, I'm guessing the middle of the screen would be at or slightly above eye-level. My concern is that it could be uncomfortable if I need to look up a lot. I haven't found that to be a problem. Maybe I just adjust where I put things on screen? Important stuff at eye level, other stuff higher? I don't know, but for whatever reason it hasn't been an issue. The DualUp really feels like a desktop where I can move things around as I please. Kinda makes me wonder why the widescreen setup ever became standard to begin with. Great for watching movies, not so great for other stuff. Also, this is a lame reason to like the monitor but... I play exactly one computer game which is Civilization VI and it runs natively in the 18:16 aspect ratio that the DualUp comes in and is SUPER fun in that format. |
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Post by M57 on Mar 14, 2023 10:28:52 GMT -6
Also, this is a lame reason to like the monitor but... I play exactly one computer game which is Civilization VI and it runs natively in the 18:16 aspect ratio that the DualUp comes in and is SUPER fun in that format. "Well, that is lame." he says, omitting the fact that he has been known to play Steam-powered Euro-style board games with friends on his studio computer. I need to do the math and determine which screen yields the most area. A 32" ultra-wide, or the DualUp? One thing that occurs to me is that a DU setup would result in substantially more space between the monitors and the screen. My Spidey-senses tell me that's probably a good thing sonically, with less surface area to bounce off of in the horizontal plane, ..not to mention it might leave enough space for stuff ..like the OSC-4 500 series box that currently sits awkwardly on my main desk. |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Mar 14, 2023 11:29:52 GMT -6
Also, this is a lame reason to like the monitor but... I play exactly one computer game which is Civilization VI and it runs natively in the 18:16 aspect ratio that the DualUp comes in and is SUPER fun in that format. "Well, that is lame." he says, omitting the fact that he has been known to play Steam-powered Euro-style board games with friends on his studio computer. I need to do the math and determine which screen yields the most area. A 32" ultra-wide, or the DualUp? One thing that occurs to me is that a DU setup would result in substantially more space between the monitors and the screen. My Spidey-senses tell me that's probably a good thing sonically, with less surface area to bounce off of in the horizontal plane, ..not to mention it might leave enough space for stuff ..like the OSC-4 500 series box that currently sits awkwardly on my main desk. Less reflection on monitors was part of my thought process as well. |
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Post by Tbone81 on Mar 15, 2023 8:07:36 GMT -6
"Well, that is lame." he says, omitting the fact that he has been known to play Steam-powered Euro-style board games with friends on his studio computer. I need to do the math and determine which screen yields the most area. A 32" ultra-wide, or the DualUp? One thing that occurs to me is that a DU setup would result in substantially more space between the monitors and the screen. My Spidey-senses tell me that's probably a good thing sonically, with less surface area to bounce off of in the horizontal plane, ..not to mention it might leave enough space for stuff ..like the OSC-4 500 series box that currently sits awkwardly on my main desk. Less reflection on monitors was part of my thought process as well. I'm trying to decide between a 32" and 27" for the same reasons. Currently using a 32" TV...but I think it may just be too big. Its definitely causing some acoustic problems...still, its hard to convince myself to "downgrade" to a smaller screen. |
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Post by svart on Mar 15, 2023 8:17:55 GMT -6
A lot of monitors will allow you to rotate them 90 degrees and use them that way if their base allows the rotation.
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 15, 2023 13:22:45 GMT -6
Less reflection on monitors was part of my thought process as well. I'm trying to decide between a 32" and 27" for the same reasons. Currently using a 32" TV...but I think it may just be too big. Its definitely causing some acoustic problems...still, its hard to convince myself to "downgrade" to a smaller screen. This is why I put my 32" on a VESA mount arm with a clamp to the back of my desk - I can swing it in really close if I'm editing, and I can push it away when mixing to minimize reflections. |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Mar 15, 2023 14:55:15 GMT -6
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 15, 2023 17:14:00 GMT -6
Yep, Martin. That display would work really well. You can tell your Mac to treat the UI as either 4k or 1080. Depending on the year of your 27” iMac, you might find the text to be even bigger on the Samsung you linked to. |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Mar 15, 2023 17:18:55 GMT -6
Thanks Mark.
I have a 2021 M1 Mac Mini now, but have to wait to use it because I need to buy a monitor and an external drive and can't afford that right now. Mine has 256, 16gb.
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Post by Tbone81 on Mar 21, 2023 12:21:45 GMT -6
I just replaced my 32" TV with a LG 29" ultrawide...the new monitor is quite a bit smaller than the old one, and one day in, all I can say is wow...going with a smaller monitor really helped with the acoustic interference I was getting from my speakers. I have a lot of tweaking to do with my speaker position but they were sitting just behind the computer monitor. The stereo image really opened up and I can really hear some details that were lost before.
The 29" UW is still a little too small for me however. Especially because I still need to back up the monitor an additional 6-8" or so to get optimal positioning. Just bought a 28" Samsung monitor to try out against the LG and will have to return the loser. We'll see.
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Post by Tbone81 on Mar 21, 2023 12:23:50 GMT -6
I'm trying to decide between a 32" and 27" for the same reasons. Currently using a 32" TV...but I think it may just be too big. Its definitely causing some acoustic problems...still, its hard to convince myself to "downgrade" to a smaller screen. This is why I put my 32" on a VESA mount arm with a clamp to the back of my desk - I can swing it in really close if I'm editing, and I can push it away when mixing to minimize reflections. I wish I had the room on my desk but when I built I made it a little too shallow to use one of those clamp-ons. I did just find a pole mount, clamp-on Vesa Mount arm. Just ordered it off amazon. I'll have to make a trip to home depot for some piping but I should be able to make my own stand pretty easily. Super stoked for my new setup. |
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Post by yewtreemagic on Mar 21, 2023 14:31:55 GMT -6
I'm trying to decide between a 32" and 27" for the same reasons. Currently using a 32" TV...but I think it may just be too big. Its definitely causing some acoustic problems...still, its hard to convince myself to "downgrade" to a smaller screen. This is why I put my 32" on a VESA mount arm with a clamp to the back of my desk - I can swing it in really close if I'm editing, and I can push it away when mixing to minimize reflections. I did the same a few years ago, but got fed up with all the forward/backward fiddling, especially since I could hear the degradation in stereo imaging when my computer monitor was in the forward position. In the end I realised that it would have been cheaper (those swing arms can be expensive!) to buy a larger monitor screen in the first place and leave it further back all the time. So that's what I did!  Martin |
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