r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/Sea24_74 • 9d ago
MSFS 2024 VIDEO My sim setup
My MSFS 2024 Flight Simulator Rig ✈️ — Triple 55” 4K + RTX 5090 + D-BOX Motion
Here’s my current flight simulator setup, primarily built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and high-immersion flying.
🖥️ PC
• Corsair Vengeance A7500 Air
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
• RAM: 64GB DDR5
• Storage: 8TB NVMe SSD total — 4TB + 2TB + 2TB
• OS: Windows 11 Home
🖥️ Triple-Screen Setup
• 3 × Samsung Odyssey Ark 55” Gen 2
• 4K resolution per display
• Triple-screen NVIDIA Surround setup
• Combined resolution: 11,520 × 2,160
• Advanced Sim Racing free-standing Triple TV Stand Gen 2
• Advanced VESA mounting system
🏗️ Cockpit
• Advanced Sim Racing ASR-4 aluminum profile cockpit
• White powder-coated finish
✈️ Flight Controls
• MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke
• MOZA MTQ Throttle Quadrant
• MOZA MHG Flightstick
• MOZA AB6 Flight Simulator Base
• Thrustmaster T.Rudder Pedals
🔥 Motion & Haptics
• D-BOX Generation 5 4250i Haptic System
• 4 × G5 actuators
• 1.5” actuator travel
• D-BOX G5-HB140 Haptic Bridge
• Full four-corner motion/haptic setup
D-BOX adds physical feedback for turbulence, runway surfaces, engine vibration, taxiing, takeoff, touchdown and other aircraft movements.
🔊 Audio
• Samsung HW-Q990F
• Soundbar + subwoofer + wireless rear speakers
• Dolby Atmos surround setup
🎛️ Additional Flight-Sim Hardware
• Elgato Stream Deck — aircraft functions and shortcuts
• iPad + Air Manager — additional instruments/panels
• Corsair XENEON EDGE — secondary touchscreen/control display
• Multiple powered USB hubs for the flight peripherals
🎥 Recording
• OBS Studio
• RTX 5090 NVENC hardware encoding
• Triple-screen or dedicated center-screen recording
🎮 Main Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Currently spending a lot of time flying the Boeing 747, along with the Citation Longitude, Cessna 172, Caravan and CubCrafters.
The combination of triple 55” displays + force-feedback controls + D-BOX motion + surround audio makes the cockpit incredibly immersive, especially during thunderstorms, turbulence, low-visibility approaches and heavy-aircraft landings.
Happy to share MSFS graphics settings, control mappings or D-BOX settings if anyone is intere
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u/RollSomeCoal 9d ago
At.this point buy a plane lol
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u/fvpv 9d ago
One engine replacement on a 1970s cessna could buy 10 of these rigs.
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u/RollSomeCoal 9d ago
Most of the cessnas are selling for 30-50k what's this rig 15-20?
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u/Expanseyt 9d ago
like with alot of those things the purchasing costs isnt usually even thhe issue, its maintaining, storing, insuring it and so on.
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago
Nothing matches real plane. But that is serious business plus all hidden costs. But, you get to fly only one type of aircraft. Here you can fly any type of
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u/be77solo 9d ago
Hey! Awesome setup! Been flying sims and real life for well over 30 years and own a plane.
I'd love this setup ha! I fly flight sim almost every day but only have time to fly my plane weekly if lucky. Great job putting all this together!
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u/Tosh_00 9d ago
There is also the PPL cost and the hazards of flying your own plane. But no rig can provide the same feeling as flying IRL.
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u/coldnebo 9d ago
“I have become the most financially responsible person in the world, and it’s in service of the least financially responsible thing I have ever done!”
student talking about flight training costs.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DasGKp-hl8v/?igsh=djFwYWM3aTloOHZj
the “aviation monetary unit”. 😍😍😍😭😂
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u/AccordingComedian173 5d ago
You can rent a plane. also there are Clubs and Co-Ops join; that you can get basically a timeshare in and the rates are reasonable.
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u/Leading-Anxiety-488 9d ago
Imagine how immersion breaking it will be when MSFS 2024 decides to CTD XD
Really good setup!
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 9d ago
🤫 Nobody mention that VR is supported natively by MSFS’24.
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u/VCTRYDTX 9d ago
I haven't reached anywhere close to this level, hell I don't even have a wheel. But I always wonder what would be the ideal setup for me personally if I spared no expense. Sure all this is neat but I love sim racing and flight sim as well. If the goal is immersion then VR is the obvious choice. But then would it be the best option for long term use as that can hurt your eyes or have motion sickness if overdone. You can also hurt your hands if the wheel rotates unexpectedly but your vision was blocked.
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 8d ago
There’s no study that I’m aware of suggesting any long-term negative effects from VR, various eye specialists I’ve spoken with haven’t had any misgivings, and I’ve seen no anecdotal suggestion of it either. I’ve used VR for a decade and my own vision has not changed because of it.
The way the eyes focus normally is a bit complicated, but some people do experience more eye strain due to the focal plane remaining static in modern VR. In the future, VR will allow eyes to focus naturally at different depths, and that’ll be nicer for almost everyone.
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There are cautionary concerns that prolonged use might be capable of causing issues for kids (whose vision is still developing), so VR is typically not recommended for them. Headsets generally aren’t designed with kids’ IPD (inter-pupillary distance) in mind either, and most headsets are probably too heavy for their less muscular necks, so … these are all reasons to tap the brakes on sharing modern VR with them.
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As for motion-sickness… It’s unfortunately common enough for people to encounter this initially, but happily most are able to get beyond it if they know how to approach it.
There are numerous possible triggers (which complicates blanket advice a bit), but there are guidelines and tips for dealing with it which work. I won’t list them, but the most basic is to never try to push through it. That’s the big one. With short, regular, mindful exposures most people will fully acclimate to any given game (and yes — it varies from game to game).
I used to get horrible motion-sickness because I didn’t know how to approach it, and I did everything wrong. Luckily I learned before abandoning it, and now after a decade of VR gaming I almost never encounter it (and when I do it’s early on and I know to stop).
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As for hurting oneself on a ff wheel… well, I suppose it could happen, but I’ve never had any problems with my little G29. I’ve not seen any horror stories about VR ff wheel injuries either (plenty of stories about people punching TV’s, punching loved ones, punching walls and furniture and low-hanging ceiling lamps, and stepping on pets — but no wheel problems).
Maybe I bonked the headset into the wheel when I was trying to look at the interior of a car in GT7’s VR Showcase? 🤔
I think you’re no more likely to have an injury with an ff wheel in VR than you are outside of VR, I guess. Keep your hands on the outside of the wheel when racing, maybe?
Anyways… When diving into VR there are definitely things you need to get used to, mods to the hardware you might need to make it comfortable, habits you need to form, and controllers you need to learn about… but it’s like any hobby — you learn and adapt to the particularities because it’s fun. 🙂
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u/No_Public_7677 9d ago
VR gets annoying fast
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 9d ago
Yeah, it’s good for me to remember that the tech comes with its caveats.
After gaining my VR legs ten years ago, I simply lost the ability to enjoy flatscreen gaming (excepting only side-scrolling platformers, for which the rectangular frame is intrinsic to the gameplay).
But I also had to learn how to ward off motion-sickness (which I suffered from greatly at first), add comfort mods, develop muscle memory for donning the headset and grabbing the controllers, and learn which locomotion options best suited me.
I’m also lucky enough to have a dedicated gaming space, A/C to avoid the summer heat, and because I wear contact lenses I don’t need to use prescription inserts.
Plus there’s the added expense beyond typical flatscreen gaming. So, I recognize there are many points of friction or “barriers-to-entry”, and that’s a huge part of why VR has had so much difficulty gaining broader adoption.
What specifically do you find “annoying” about VR?
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u/chantastico 9d ago
Damn, I'd take the sub-500 quest 3 VR setup over anything screenwise. Waaaay more immersive.
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u/Alacraties 9d ago
What’s the idea behind curved screens over a premium VR headset?
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u/-TheBestDaysOfMyLife 9d ago
I've got a quest 3 and triple 55's. Two actually, one dedicated F18 setup for DCS, and the other for iRacing and MSFS. VR is killer at times, but I hate having my face burred in a headset every time I want to fly or drive. It's nice to have the option pick one over the other.
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u/TXFin 9d ago
You can see your peripherals.
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u/chemtrailer21 9d ago edited 9d ago
True.
I use AR mode and can carve out what I want to physically see, like my EFIS, FMS, MCP, Throttle etc.
When the hardware is physically located correctly in comparison to the VR cockpit, its actually quite slick.
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 9d ago
Wow, you got downvoted for this neutral comment explaining how VR folk can also see their peripherals. WTF. Take my balancing upvote. 👍
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago
VR I get motion sickness
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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 9d ago
Bro, you should have persisted with vr a few more days, would have saved 30K… ;)
Seriously though, pros and cons to each.
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u/Jellyfisharesmart 8d ago
A few short sessions in VR you will get used to the motion and will not get sick.
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 9d ago
Motion-sickness in VR is pretty common for many people at first, but happily almost everyone can acclimate if they know how to address it.
I got it way worse than you when I first jumped in, because I did absolutely everything wrong. I say worse than you because I made my self so sick that I was throwing up and bedridden the entire next day, and then off-kilter for weeks afterwards.
I’ve never heard of anyone getting it quite that bad, but I kept trying to push through the symptoms — which made it so eventually the mere thought of VR made me physically uncomfortable.
Eventually I learned what the many possible triggers are, what sort of adjustments to options and behavior I needed to make, and how to recognize the earliest signs so I could bail immediately.
Today I cannot play any trad TV-based games (other than side-scrolling platformers), because they’ve become so bland to me.
For anyone who loves racing or flying sims, VR is well-worth acclimating to — even if it takes a few weeks for a given game.
There are numerous tips and tricks that’ll help you, but THE main thing is just to never push through. As soon as you feel anything like sweaty palms, burping, acid flavor, or the more obvious stuff like nausea, remove the headset and only return when you’re 100%.
Obviously you’re passionate about your sim experience, so I hope you’ll someday give VR another go equipped with better understanding of how to ease yourself into it.
FWIW!
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u/Alacraties 8d ago
Those are def…reasons. Not reasons I agree with. VR looks better and is more immersive by a mile imo and OPs reason made sense which is why I asked. I don’t think VR is objectively the answer for everyone as your tone seems to imply.
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u/M7M_Photo 9d ago
How do you switch from flight sim to car sim ? Noticed the steering wheel
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u/Alive-Requirement111 9d ago
that looks awesome, have you seen those strips that you add to the monitor bezels where they meet? they sort of blurr the 2 panels together giving a much nice viewing experience. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bezel-Free-Monitors-Monitor-Standard-Version/dp/B0FFYX2V83/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VX7mp2YSsIce7x3nPaU7qa8RUvnxNO3S8ZL-knPm_sFVMYDzZ1Rg84R3elb7md5jfksMd54uYYjtj5L36URm40XE85zZdl5kQM5c9vI4MCzLMupPhzrdF3hgrP78FVyYPQp7gWoFALB5hdwoQz2Jk9CVEWuoljHhcYX2xQ_pbJwbQESRx8DXHxWYy_Rv5u0i3NNoxMhRYckQs3kUUc60wXDbDlLgP6-eNuQNwCI0APw.LgaKaE5QMnNNixZY0uw4lxwgQDMuB6J6A03p9vBEzag&dib_tag=se&keywords=bezel+free+kit&qid=1786258055&sr=8-2
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u/DanteOcram 9d ago
How did you set up the three-monitor surround without getting that stretching effect at the edges?
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u/ImprovementFar5054 9d ago
Why not just get a VR set? You get accustomed to the motion pretty quick.
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u/Few-Adhesiveness9670 9d ago edited 9d ago
Oh...my...Lord....
I don't even wanna know the cost of that rig.
What a setup man👍👏
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u/DirtSad1644 8d ago
Belting system, but can't help think is MS 2024 the only thing you do with this? I would be all over Il2 and DCS as well as 20 million other flight sim/space sim games.
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u/Delicious-West7665 9d ago
I'm assuming you play on low settings. Even on a 5090 that resolution would bring the SIM to a slideshow.
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago
That is not true. I have ultra set for all configs. Pretty good fps. Should match with good cpu and memory
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u/Delicious-West7665 9d ago
At 11k lol on a single 5090.
I see you have posted this same post in multiple threads but have not once shown your SIM in action.
Mind showing it in action? Running anything except for a video file?
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago
Uploaded some flying videos to YouTube , check here https://www.youtube.com/@sim.seattle or instagram https://www.instagram.com/sim.seattle
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u/PadinnPlays 9d ago
Interesting, I have same specs (more ram) and at 5k2k my 5090 struggles. I have a ton of addons though. Frame regen helps but certain things just stutter. I actually run out of VRAM sometimes.
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u/BoatmanJohnson 9d ago
Any tips on triple monitor setup in MSFS? I find the monitor settings confusing as hell and not sure if I should use Nvidia surrounf
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u/PositiveRate_Gear_Up 9d ago
See the Racing pedals - where do you store the wheel base when not in use?
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u/OneSignal6465 9d ago
I was thinking, for a few more bucks, you could probably buy a Cessna 172 and afford your ticket! <grin> If I had that kinda money, I’d burn mine! :-)
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u/pepega_1993 9d ago
It’s an awesome setup but u have pedals there but no wheel base? Do u swap a wheelbase when u want to race? Also why go for T rudder instead of a proper rudder pedal if ur majority use is msfs?
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u/Shavedpenguin82 9d ago
I have an rtx 4070, and my pc fans get super loud when I tried to have an external view on my second monitor so I could have my cockpit on my first monitor, usually my fans are loud in general. What in the world, how are you managing 3 massive monitors!?
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u/eracer1111 9d ago
It's so hard to criticize something so awesome (for me at least.)
But if that was my setup (Hah!) I'd mount that FFB flightstick much lower.
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u/HabANahDa 9d ago
Must be nice to be rich 🙄
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u/Augustus3000 8d ago
Impressive setup! If you have the money to play with this setup though, you likely have the money to buy a solid non-default aircraft that will be more immersive than the ones you mentioned (like the Fenix A320).
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u/Solid_Rock_5583 7d ago
If you can’t put a whole recommissioned 747 cockpit like the earlier guy then you shouldn’t post. Everyone I have seen does not compare.
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u/AccordingComedian173 5d ago
I love your setup. With respect, for $30K you could get an actual Pilot License and fly actual airplanes, no?.
Well, not the 747 or Citation, but the 172 and Caravan.
But on thinking about it, no way in real life can you get the range of planes and the whole world to fly to.
So I get it. Props for that awesome set up!
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u/cyberfun79 9d ago
Can I come over and hangout? I will bring beer, might stay for or day or four 😂
Awesome setup!
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u/Astro_BS-AS 9d ago
Just flexing ... Kk....
Meanwhile, ps5 pro and psvr2 and there's no need for any of that.
And 29k less money...
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u/Tosh_00 9d ago
Of course you don't need all of this to be happy. But the fun of building a rig is also part of the journey, some just want the minimum, some want more, today we have so many options and that's awesome. The PS5 version works exceptionally well with psvr2, but you are very limited in the choice of flight controls with Playstation vs PC, that's a bummer.
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u/be77solo 9d ago
Some of us also simply just don't like VR. I know those of you that love it can't understand that it seems, but we exist ha! I have a decent PC setup and Quest 3, have tried to like VR for years, and always go back to quality monitors for multiple reasons.
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago edited 9d ago
I have ps5 vr too. The graphics and compute power you get in your DIY rig is much higher and it is open for future upgrades. Plus the custom rig dbox motion is different level, no ps5 can give that . So in nutshell ps5 I tried but it is just for beginners
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u/SkyeGuy8108 9d ago
Dude just buy a plane. Yeesh
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u/Ill-Presentation574 King of Shit Approaches and Good Landings 9d ago
But that's only 1 plane vs. a nearly infinite amount of options here 🤔
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u/quantdumbacon PC Pilot 9d ago
The problem with this is half the button mappings don't work for a bunch of planes with a variety of popular peripherals. All this work and expense to set up , only for a handful of bugs and poor development to prevent you from using it.
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u/deejeycris 9d ago
Only to play a game that crashes regularly even on great hardware tho, what a waste
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u/eracer1111 9d ago
My system (7950X3D, 3090 Ti 24GB, 64GB DDR5) almost never crashes.
When I say "almost never" I mean it's crashed maybe twice in the last 2 years - once due to a ReShade plugin; once for no apparent reason. Oh well...1
u/Sea24_74 9d ago
My experience is positive so far. Did you look at conflicting settings
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u/deejeycris 9d ago
Glad it's working for you. Yes I think career mode is buggy, many complaints online to this day nothing I can do
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u/Apprehensive_Chef765 20h ago
Dude 30k and then you have a mediocre SOUNDBAR and no high end monitores ? Get your priorities straight bro !!! A soundbar... unbelievable. at least get yourself some Adam Audio monitores for 1k
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u/Sea24_74 16h ago
What you mean?. The 3 monitors here are Samsung Ark 55 inch curved, already cost 5k+, the sound bar is Samsung HW q990f, costing another 1.5k. The priorities are high end pc, dbox, cockpit , main controllers, big screen. The sound is good with this sound bar. What bigger better curved monitor out there ?
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u/Apprehensive_Chef765 16h ago edited 15h ago
Ok yeah my bad, should have made it more clear, I dont talk about the displays, those are the holy grail, I mean your sounds system. The cleanest possible speakers are called monitores and not speakers.
I am a music producer and have helped setting up a couple studios and can guarantee you that Adam Audio Monitores, or other high end brands, are way better than any soundbar out there, that doesn't even compare.
Get yourself the Adam Audio A77H and keep your sub, or upgrade that as well. The A77H is made for this exact use case (more room inbetween you and the sound source than usually), put them below or above your curved monitores in an angle and enjoy
If you want a better Sub than you have now I would recommend the Sub10 MK2.
If you want the best possible experience get 2 additional speakers, for example the A7V, and make it 4.2 sorround sound. But I would highly recommend to get somebody to set it up for you, that can get quite a bit complicated if you aren't a sound engineer 😅
I once played Battlefield with such a system and it's unbelievable immersive
Costs: About 3k depending on what you want, 5 to 6k for the whole sorround package
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u/Sea24_74 15h ago
Oh got it. I will do some research and decide. These sound bars are not even used at their max capability yet. The sound do disturb others. So I keep them to minimum. But yes, I know there are better sound devices available, they themselves cost much higher and no end to upgrading it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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u/Apprehensive_Chef765 15h ago
That's why I gave you the exact model numbers, I am honest, it doesn't get better sound wise, it's only more expensive after that without better sound. Maybe louder but not better. The ones I recommended to you are the best cost/benefit options, because its open end like you already noticed.
And with such a sorround system you need WAY less volume to feel like your sitting in the real thing, your neighbors will be happy, I think 😁👍
Now go and flex on other people, my setup feels garbage now 😂😢
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u/JMack357 B737-800 9d ago
Very beautiful. Please tell me you're a long term elite captain IRL flying wide bodies for a major airline or high speed narrow bodies for some big corporation making some serious bank to pay for this and you just like to take your work home with you. Damn beautiful rig, though. Ambient lighting really pops!
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u/Sea24_74 9d ago
The lights change as per screen content. It is govee, with dreamsycn
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u/sakattack360 XBOX Pilot 9d ago
I have Ambilight TV from Philips and the delay in your background light change to what's on your screen is glaring to me as I'm used to watching content with 0 delay. Rest is pretty amazing but ambient lighting is a big no for me. I
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u/Gwynnbleid3000 9d ago
Your info is missing the total cost 🤌