After some 10 years I’m getting back to full time work on scores (including large ORCH) and looking for a larger monitor—specs and current and nice products working with Dorico notation software. An earlier thread suggested LD 28MQ780B 16:18 4K 2560 x 2880 with used in portrait mode with Vesa stand, but its generally no longer much available. Your wisdom and experience on this greatly appreciated!
Hi @mahler111 , and welcome to the forum!
Could you share more about your setup?
Mac/PC; desktop/laptop; how many displays you would like in your setup?
For example, in my case: Mac; laptop; internal + 1 external 32” 6K Asus display (PA32QCV).
Another well-known successful setup is: Mac; desktop; 2 displays, one horizontal, one vertical, both mounted on arms, MA320U and MA270U (one 32”, one 27”)
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I like my Dell 42" 4K monitor, which I chose because I wanted to see facing 17"x11" pages at actual size plus room for bordering pallets.
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I use the Samsung 49” G93SC Odyssey OLED G9, which is fantastic in terms of width and clarity, but after using it for a couple of years, I find myself wishing for a monitor with greater height.
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What distance are you sitting from your displays?
One arm and a hand so I guess about 70 cm.
Not knowing what platform you’re on, here’s a thread from 2022–2025 that might have some helpful comments: Size of screen to see Dorico Full orchestral scores recommendation
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That’s the perfect distance if you paid an arm and a leg for it. 
Jesper
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My biggest advice is to mount whatever monitor you get on a monitor arm. So much of this is about viewing distance and pixel density.
If you have good eyesight, once you acclimate to a monitor around 160 pixels per inch or higher, you won’t want to go back. My primary monitor is a Dell UltraSharp 27-inch 4K, at 163 pixels per inch. It’s mounted on a monitor arm, which allows me to adjust its distance as needed.
I would love to get a 6K monitor like this one (224 ppi!), but it feels like a bit of a luxury purchase.
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Be careful with that one and watch plenty of reviews. There’s quite a lot of negative details. I was also torn between that and the PA32QCV, but after seeing tens of reviews and also looking at the cheaper price (I don’t mind good plastic at all), I went for the Asus (also, it comes with 5 years warranty, a great plus for me).
I’m interested in this. You mean the 60Hz refresh? I’m fine with that. OLED would be nice, but I’ve only had one OLED screen ever (it was pretty great)…
Edit: the Asus looks nice as well.
Also the Asus is 60Hz. I believe there is no 6K 120Hz yet and for what we do it is not really necessary to go beyond 60.
The main pain points were, IIRC:
- it doesn’t rotate horizontally (!) as it is one block of aluminium
- the ports are parallel to the floor so very easy to break cable and connectors
- colour and brightness uniformity was quite poor for a 2K€ display
- it gets very hot during operation and it seems to have a noisy fan inside.
These were more than enough to convince me to veer towards the Asus, which also has physical buttons (yes!) on the front of the frame! No more blindly grasping behind the display!
It came Calman calibrated from factory with an impressive DeltaE (0.67 in the P3 spectrum!) and a certificate.
PS: it is not perfect or the quality of a Pro Display XDR or Studio Display, of course. When it is fully dark you can see four zones of light irradiating from the corners. I could get that fixed by calibrating it again but, for now, I’ve not found the need to do so.
PPS: the stand can be unlocked to mount the display on an 100x100 VESA arm.
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About 2 1/2 feet from the display.
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About 80cm
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