I love the idea of having one big huge monitor, but for me speaker position is too important. I have my speakers either side of my monitor (how confusing is it that the word "monitor" both refers to speakers and screens) and I like to maintain a nice equilateral triangle with them and my head for the best stereo image. That means I can only go as big as my 23-inch Samsung before the speakers are too far apart. 
 
So I have a second monitor instead (another 23-inch Samsung). This goes to the right of my right speaker and rotated inwards a little to face me. It makes for a little more head turning than I'd prefer, but you get used to it. And one thing I find better about two monitors instead of one large one is the organizational element. I like dividing tasks up between the two screens, for instance tracking on the main screen and mixing on the other screen. It feels tidier than having everything on one screen. 

soens

Moonlights as a drive-in DAW?

Thanks for the Fred craig!

bayoubill
Thanks for the Fred craig!

I'm cornfused. Is it fred or Craig?

bitflipper

craigb
Oh yeah, I still remember paying $1,300 for a NICE Sony 17" CRT monitor because it had the higher refresh rates that didn't give me a headache (completely worth it back then).

I had that same monitor! For years.
 
I'd driven 80 miles to grab it at the incredible sale price of just $1,000. At the time 17" monitors were typically 2 or 3 times that and normally seen only on high-end CAD/CAM workstations (who else would need anything that big unless you're designing airplanes?). I kept that beast for for way too long, just because I'd spent so much money on it I couldn't bear to retire it.
 
I recently had to replace a broken monitor, and shopped around to see if a single large monitor might be better than two small ones. I ended up sticking with dual monitors because two 22" monitors cost a mere $200. That's 44 inches total. I could have spent $600 for a single 42" monitor, and ended up with less screen space, or spent $800 to gain an extra 2 inches.

Back in the early 90s I worked on a high-end Unix workstation at my job that had a 21" monitor.  Once I saw how much more productive you could be, I had to have one for my home computer.  I paid maybe $1600 of my own money.  It was huge in all dimensions and weighed maybe 80 pounds.
 
The thing lasted maybe fifteen years before giving up the ghost.  I replaced it with a current flatscreen that offered about the same resolution (a bit wider but not quite as high) for which I paid about one-sixth the price of the earlier purchase and it weighed maybe a tenth as much as the original.

bapu

bayoubill
Thanks for the Fred craig!

I'm cornfused. Is it fred or Craig?

Craig b Fred? IFBHRN

I just now got used to calling craig craig. Fred it is! Just don't call me Ray

I can't wait!
 
And, yes, Bob got the size correction in that I was about to write to Dave.  Two 22" monitors is only half the size of one 44" monitor, so still much smaller than a 42".

Ham N Egz
I am blessed to have the real estate at my DAW for two monitors, an 32 inch and a 27 I am going to replace the smaller one with another 32 inch , It really . for me., makes the workflow easier with console on one and track view on the other.
 
 

Here Here - the only drawback for me with this setup is sometimes I wish I just had a monitor straight forward.....  however always looking one way for the console view and another way for the track view is good training for us types!