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Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom

Rarely used it. You can always manually boost analog signals (not sure if the side one is included, but it may be) by holding down the mute button on the control unit and turning the volume knob up. You'll see "+xx" up to +11.
 
I've done it once to try it out... My dogs where RUNNING... lol
 
DanishDevil said:
You will be able to, but check with your TV's manufacturer to make sure that the sound will output 5.1. It also depends on your source. In order to have 5.1 sound, you need to keep it 5.1 from the source all the way to the speakers. Tell me your entire HDTV setup, including your sources and players.

It will work wonders with the DFI. How I used it.
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It's a philips/magnavox. I will have to look up the model #. Only players I use is my PC and of course the PS2.
 
How do you hook up the PS2 to it?

PC is going through Optical. Now we need to figure out whether or not the signal coming from the TV is going to be digital, and how it's going to get to the speakers, as well as how your PS2 plays its part.
 
Best Sound Quality

I use my PC primarily for Music/Movies/Gaming.

My question is this: In my sound card config, I've got an option to change the S/PDIF Output. This directly influences sound quality. From which option will I get the best audio quality?

Check the image.

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Edit: My speaker set is connected via direct(analogue) & optical.
 
Wingo,

If you want to listen to music in stereo, 192 KHz would be the optimal setting assuming the Z-5500's receiver can support it, Prologic could be applied to up mix it to 5.1. I'm doubtful that the Z-5500 could support 192 KHz via SPDIF with Prologic (correct me if I'm wrong because I don't personally own the Z-5500s)
But I would presume that since you bought the Razer AC-1 7.1ch gaming audio card you're interested in its DTS and Dolby encoding abilities, in which case DTS Interactive would be optimal. If you didn't buy the card for its encoding ability then you could of saved a lot of money and ran 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 96 KHz, or 192 KHz a cheaper card :)

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The Logitech Z-5500 specification says it supports "24/96", so you should be able to apply a maximum of 96 KHz at 24-bit without issue, but I'd personally use DTS Interactive.
 
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Darren said:
Wingo,


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The Logitech Z-5500 specification says it supports "24/96", so you should be able to apply a maximum of 96 KHz at 24-bit without issue, but I'd personally use DTS Interactive.
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If I may ask, why would you use DTS Interactive? I do use DTS when watching movies, will it be fine for music?
 
Wingo101 said:
If I may ask, why would you use DTS Interactive? I do use DTS when watching movies, will it be fine for music?
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There is nothing wrong with the way you've got your speakers/soundcard configured but onboard would of been sufficient for that configuration.
Although you get DTS from watching movies its only because the source is already pre-encoded for example DVD movies have Dolby Digital or DTS pre-encoded this data is just passed-through to the SPDIF for the receiver to decode the existing pre-encoded algorithms. Any soundcard with SPDIF can do this, including onboard.

Because the Razor's selling point is it's DTS and Dolby Digital encoding features, if you wasn't interested in those features you could of bought any cheap sound card for £20-30 with SPDIF out :)

By selecting DTS Interactive or Dolby Digital Live its able to up mix and encode stereo from MP3s or game audio in real-time to DTS or Dolby 5.1. Without these features you'd only get stereo from the Z-5500 when using digital out (in music/games) :)


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Legend of Leroy Bad said:
DTS is ideally for Movies and some Games. For music I'd stick with the Digital Outputs. 44.1. I'm unsure whether your card is upsampling upto 192Khz or is just giving you an option to play 192khz audio.
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I agree :)

It's a matter of choice, use the feature which you enjoy the most.

The Razer AC-1 7.1 Gaming Audio Card can handle 192KHz, I don't think the Logitech Z-5500 supports it via SPDIF however it might still work. But regardless The Razer AC-1 7.1 selling features is DTS Interactive and Dolby Digital Live, Wingo what feature made you buy the Razor? was it the cool looking box.


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Legend of Leroy Bad,

I would guess that if the game doesn't natively support 192KHz the soundcard would up-resample it.

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Wingo101 said:
I thought it best to bundle the Razer HP-1 Headphones with the AC-1 Soundcard, Razer promised the best performance if I did so.

Though... I am quite a Razer fanboy :p
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Its a great soundcard overall, well worth the money :)
 
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DTS is ideally for Movies and some Games. For music I'd stick with the Digital Outputs. 44.1. I'm unsure whether your card is upsampling upto 192Khz or is just giving you an option to play 192khz audio.
 
Darren said:
The Razer AC-1 7.1 Gaming Audio Card can handle 192KHz, I don't think the Logitech Z-5500 supports it via SPDIF however it might still work. But regardless The Razer AC-1 7.1 selling features is DTS Interactive and Dolby Digital Live, Wingo what feature made you buy the Razor? was it the cool looking box.
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I thought it best to bundle the Razer HP-1 Headphones with the AC-1 Soundcard, Razer promised the best performance if I did so.

Though... I am quite a Razer fanboy :p
 
Pid

Is it possible for another person to have the same PID as you?
 
I'm fairly sure that it is. I think PID really refers to the "batch" if you will of speaker sets that you have. They have made well over 700 of these sets, so if they were unique numbers, they would be well into the thousands.
 
DanishDevil said:
I'm fairly sure that it is. I think PID really refers to the "batch" if you will of speaker sets that you have. They have made well over 700 of these sets, so if they were unique numbers, they would be well into the thousands.
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I recently experienced a problem with my control pod fading out, I phoned the supplier who then said I must send in the control pod to be replaced.

Now I received it back from them with even worse problems (ie. right side fading away, control knob not turning smoothly)

I checked behind for the PID & to my surprise, it's different from the speakers.

The speakers: PID R815
The replacement pod: PID R625

If I am correct, they sent me an old control pod, which according to the logitech forums gave many problems.

What do you think I should do?
 
Call them and bitch at them for sending you a faulty one and say that you want them to overnight you a new one, along with a prepaid box to ship yours back to them.
 
Shouldn't I send in the entire speaker set, that way the PID will be the same for every speaker?
 
I wouldn't. Good GOD that would be expensive.
 
Alright, Monday morning they will be getting a call from me :shadedshu


PS. Can I become a member of this thread?
 
Here is my system:

Devices: Razer Barracuda AC-1 Direct & Optical
Firmware: Will tell you after I receive my new CP
M/N: S-0115B
PID: R815
Speaker Connection: Speaker Wire
Favorite Song: Basshunter - Angel In The Night
Favorite Movie: Comedy & Action
Favorite Game: Crysis, COD 4, NFS, BIA, GTA


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anyway i feel the need to say this: you DO want to use DTS interactive. Reason? not only will music/movies be multi channel, but GAMES will be too.

without dolby live or DTS Int, you'll only get stereo from non encoded sources (aka, stereo for evertyhing not a movie)
 
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WOW! COD4 with DTS Interactive... it's like I'm in a movie :eek:


Thanks guys. :respect:
 
wingo: can you reduce the file sizes above? it took me over a minute to load this page, and i'm on 8Mb net here.

800x600 res should be enough, we dont need to make out the weave on your tablecloth.
 
Resized... sorry about that Mussels :o
 
? The page loaded instantly for me....
 
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