Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom

[J.M.D]

Welcome to the club J.M.D, and your tutorial was also added to post 1.

Thank You DanishDevil..

 

[DanishDevil]

Thank you for sharing the guide

 

[J.M.D]

Thank you for sharing the guide

My Pleasure

 

[slyfox2151]

hi guys, I can remember reading long ago that someone's control pod led display died, mine has just done it, what can I do(out of warrenty)??

Cheers,

Gerry

iv never posted it, but my Z-5500 Control Pod Backlit display light has also busted about 5 months ago

everything else is still working fine tho .... except the settings button witch got super glue on it lol.... but it works if u press hard enough.

Boost 22. No noise at all even in boost mode.

 

[nareshseep]

Hi Guys did some modding with the sub, I like the z5500 setup a lot, but dislike the boomy bass it has. So what I did was stuff the subwoofer with polyfill and closed the port by stuffing it with some old fabric. The bass sounds is much more defined, as has some punch but not as overbearing.

 

[J.M.D]

Hi Guys did some modding with the sub, I like the z5500 setup a lot, but dislike the boomy bass it has. So what I did was stuff the subwoofer with polyfill and closed the port by stuffing it with some old fabric. The bass sounds is much more defined, as has some punch but not as overbearing.

Rubber car mats work well but if you have the money there is specialized rubber that has the required circles on it for the sound reflection.

It would help others, if you guys could post some pic's of the modified setup !!!!

 

[TheGuruStud]

I found the that the boom was caused by high freqs passing through to it. When I cut it down hard with the sound card's crossover, it all went away.

 

[J.M.D]

I found the that the boom was caused by high freqs passing through to it. When I cut it down hard with the sound card's crossover, it all went away.

Right !! You can also perfectly get it done by slightly increasing the 125Hz(2-4dB) Cycle Band on the EQ.

 

[nareshseep]

It would help others, if you guys could post some pic's of the modified setup !!!!

well it it not that difficult to do, but will try to get some pics next weekend. All there is to it is to unscrew the amp at the back of the sub. Once the amp is unscrews you will have access to the enclosure which you can stuff to your liking. I used a piece of cloth folded a number of times and stuffed the port.

 

[DEFEATEST]

Hey guys, ever since I've moved to windows 7 home premium 64bit from win xp my z-5500's don't seem to work. My control box turns on and lights up but no speakers. My headphones work perfectly. I have an Auzentech prelude 7.1 and it's hooked up optically to my 5500's and has been working nicely for a year or more until windows 7. I've installed the drivers twice and to no avail. Any suggestions?

thanks

 

[J.M.D]

Hey guys, ever since I've moved to windows 7 home premium 64bit from win xp my z-5500's don't seem to work. My control box turns on and lights up but no speakers. My headphones work perfectly. I have an Auzentech prelude 7.1 and it's hooked up optically to my 5500's and has been working nicely for a year or more until windows 7. I've installed the drivers twice and to no avail. Any suggestions?

thanks

Its a different story in Vista/7. No Simultaneous audio output via Optical/Digital. By Default the audio will be outputted via only Analogue. You can hear on your headfone coz its looped with the Analogue output. For digital SPIDIF out you need to select the default audio device in control panel as "Auzentech Digital SPDIF out". By the way did u know that the Analogue output of Prelude sounds much better than "hook-via optical" mode in Z5500 ????

 

[DanishDevil]

Here's how to do it with W7 and an X-Fi Prelude. Select your output to Dolby Digital Live, and do it through Optical. Sends exactly what the sound card wants as DD Live, and it sounds great. That's my favorite method through optical, but analog would sound better.

DD Live has the sound card encode, then pass to the speakers to decode. Regular optical sends the signal straight from the source to the speakers, bypassing the sound card, making your expensive sound card worthless. Analog has the sound card decode, and gives the speakers channel-per-channel instructions.

 

[DEFEATEST]

Ok guys, that worked great!!.....however now my headphones dont work! lol, I have to disable the SPDIF out and select speakers as my default to hear my headphones. Again, this all worked in xp. How can I have both working when I need them?

 

[Mussels]

Ok guys, that worked great!!.....however now my headphones dont work! lol, I have to disable the SPDIF out and select speakers as my default to hear my headphones. Again, this all worked in xp. How can I have both working when I need them?

hook the headphones up to the speakers, or use a second sound card for the headphones.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'd do the first one.

 

[TheGuruStud]

My lights are getting finicky. I've had it for about 2 yrs

But, even if she ever goes completely tits up, I have a Z-680 as a backup

 

[DEFEATEST]

Well, if I hook up headphones to speakers, I don't see any hookup for my mic. If I go back to using analog for the speakers, will this all go back to the way it was? as in both working when I wanted them to? This is a bit much , especially for something that use to work fine as it was... lol

 

[Mussels]

Well, if I hook up headphones to speakers, I don't see any hookup for my mic. If I go back to using analog for the speakers, will this all go back to the way it was? as in both working when I wanted them to? This is a bit much , especially for something that use to work fine as it was... lol

its a limitation of your sound card. it disables analogue when the SPDIF/encoding is working.

 

[DEFEATEST]

So does this only happen in Vista/7? Just because it was working in xp.

 

[Mussels]

So does this only happen in Vista/7? Just because it was working in xp.

dont know. it varies between sound cards and user settings.

i can have stereo SPDIF and analogue at the same time, but not analogue + encoding... but then again, who wants to hear only the front two channels of your 5.1 audio in that setup?

 

[DEFEATEST]

Well I got it to kinda work, I set the speakers as my headphones and the spdif as the default communication device, and they both seem to work. But Ya I think that I'm only using 2 channels like you said Mussels. Me thinks me going back to good ol' fashion wires! Thanks again guys for all your help!

 

[Mussels]

i use my soundcard for optical + encoding, and have my front panel audio hooked to my onboard (and set as default) so that if i plug in my headphones it swaps to stereo.

doesnt work so well if i swap it real-time in a game (only get two channels) but if i do it before a game its fine. (mostly for LAN use)

 

[J.M.D]

Ok guys, that worked great!!.....however now my headphones dont work! lol, I have to disable the SPDIF out and select speakers as my default to hear my headphones. Again, this all worked in xp. How can I have both working when I need them?

Your headphones dont output anything because there is no Analogue output while your SPDIF is in use. This only happens in Vista/7.

its a limitation of your sound card. it disables analogue when the SPDIF/encoding is working.

Thats not correct. Its a complete limitation of the OS (Vista/7) which is weird as it worked flawlessly on XP- 32/64.

So does this only happen in Vista/7? Just because it was working in xp.

Yes. Definitely.

Well I got it to kinda work, I set the speakers as my headphones and the spdif as the default communication device, and they both seem to work. But Ya I think that I'm only using 2 channels like you said Mussels. Me thinks me going back to good ol' fashion wires! Thanks again guys for all your help!

Yes thats another way to get it to work on both (Analogue/SPDIF). But as, a stereo sound is intended to playback only on two channels unless you wanna alter the sound and push it to 5.1 channels, you can definitely get it to work on your Optical out by enabling the X-Fi CMSS-3D[Stereo Surround] + Dolby Digital Live , assuming your speaker selection is set to 5.1 in Creative console. As DanishDevil already Suggested , this is only the best method to get multi-channel sound thru a single Optical/Coax cable.


- JMD !

 

[techguy31]

Hi, so I have a ht omega claro plus and a z5500 and is having trouble configuring it to it's full potential. When I put in the output of the control panel audio to 6ch audio the background plays about 70% louder than when the characters are talking. But when I put 2ch output it is much it plays smoothly. I am having trouble configuring the speakers and the audio card. If anyone has the ht omega claro plus and the z5500 can you please help me out?

 

[techguy31]

I also have another question my pod volume button is kind of sticky when I turn it (it doesn't rotate smoothly, I have to use some force) How would I fix this without opening the pod. Is this normal?