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Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom

Thanks for the tip Mussels. Unfortunately, with the layout of my room, I've got no way of properly mounting them behind me :cry: I've tried to think of other room configurations, but it just won't work.
 
Thanks man. They've still got their Zune 80 sale page pulled :mad:
 
as mussels has said the position of the speaker is VERY inportant, i dont know about the Logitech Z-5500's but i have an older LG 5.1/DTS home thearter set up and i cannot but the rear speakers too far behind me as the set up is in my bed room but with my speakers i found adjusting the volume of the indivual speakers and playing the the delay for the indivdual speaker work wonders for my set up...
 
the new guy

Hi, sorry to interrupt. I was passing by and saw this Z-5500 Club while I was searching for some info about the bass settings of the Z-5500 (which I may add I own) with the X-Fi Extreme Gamer 7.1 soundcard. I'm having trouble getting a satisfactory configuration as I find the sub sounds somehow "muddy" with some music media. DVD movies sound great and Enemy Territory Quake Wars rocks the room :rockout:

I paid around $400 for them about a month ago. I could have ordered from a cheaper site but decided to go local (Costa Rica) because of the warranty. Oh well, with shipping costs and taxes price would have been nearly the same :ohwell:

You might want to know I did some quick tests and :
  • I can reach +22 no problem.
  • Holding input+settings didn't work for me.
  • Second skin worked but I like the first one
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Mine has speaker wire connections, M/N: S-0115A
Will send a pic when I clean up a little :D
 
hey thundershock, welcome to TPU & the Z5500 club :)
 
gerrynicol said:
They are back on the site still$200 (I paid £240 GBP for mine :mad:) not sure about the shipping though.
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Shipping is Free.

- Christine
 
Welcome Thundershock!

Btw, to you and everyone, try not to use your speakers in boost level unless you have a really low sound source (not even boost 11 let alone boost 22) because you can do damage.

I tried mine at boost 22 for some seconds and there was a 'warm electronicky smell' in the room... :eek: thankfully everything still works but I couldn't resist testing out boost 22... :o I've read on the logitech forums about guys ruining their sets in boost mode...:(

Has anyone here made heads or tails about which settings are saved when you switch off your set?
Mine apparently seems to save settings in a very random way.

I always have mine on:
PLII Music Effect,
slightly more than half-way bass,
slightly more than halfway surround,
slightly less than half-way for the centre speaker, and
just one and a half notches of volume (enough for the sounds while browsing, I put that up for movies/games/music:) )

However when I switch it on I always get these settings:
PLII Movie effect
only 3 bars of bass
0 bars for surround
1 bar for centre speaker
0 bars for volume

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hmmm i dunno about that... i use my soundcard to do all the processing for surround etc... and optical... so the settings arte saved in my soundcards control panel.

I am pretty sure that the circuitry & dsp of my soundcard is better for the task of surround and processing, so Id rather have it do all the work and let the Z5500's autosense the input and adjust accordingly.
 
twicksisted said:
hmmm i dunno about that... i use my soundcard to do all the processing for surround etc... and optical... so the settings arte saved in my soundcards control panel.

I am pretty sure that the circuitry & dsp of my soundcard is better for the task of surround and processing, so Id rather have it do all the work and let the Z5500's autosense the input and adjust accordingly.
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So you mean that when you power on your pc you get the same sound setting in your Z-5500 as you had when you switched everything off? Complete with bass, satellite, volume and effect setting? :eek:
 
I do...
 
Black Panther said:
So you mean that when you power on your pc you get the same sound setting in your Z-5500 as you had when you switched everything off? Complete with bass, satellite, volume and effect setting? :eek:
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i think so... but it dosent matter becuase i keep everything default on the Z5500.... i do all the tweaking in the soundcards software and have all my profiles saved in the soundcard so that i dont have to fuss with the headunit
 
i only run mine via digital (soundcard via coax, everything else into TV and then out via optical) and everything saves fine for me - that said, on digital i cant even use the dolby settings, therefore i dont know if they save or not.
 
Black Panther all my setting for volume, surround, etc remain the same when I turn the speakers off. I wonder if you are turning off the sub switch which I don't do ever. But even after a blackout all my Z-5500 remain the same.

About the soundcard settings, there's a known issue with the mayority of retail X-Fi soundcard drivers. It just won't save speaker configurations. Only Ausentech seems to have good drivers that save settings ..but mine is not Ausentech :(

Oh, and I didn't had any media playing when I made the +22 test, actually I'm a little too sensitive to some sounds, says my Otorhinolaryngologist. And that is not superhearing, it's just some frequencies that can give me headaches, the mayority of people won't even notice them. So it's nice to know the speakers are powerfull but, as many people here said, I don't think I will ever use the boosts.

I bought this speakers because in my research I saw a comment where someone said that he/she could hear instruments and voices with the Z-5500 that had never heard before with other speakers ...using the same media from their favorite song!

I'm very happy to tell you I had that same experience with many songs, but thats not achieved by turnning up the volume. Actually, if it is too loud you can't apreciate the music, even if it doesn't disort.

So if you want to wake up the neighbors it's OK, but really, they won't notice the diference between this and other speakers since this system has a sweet spot. If you are not in the sweet spot you are missing the point of having this speakers.

That said, I think it's cool to "feel" the bass once in a while :D
 
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thundershock said:
my Otorhinolaryngologist
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You have a dinosaur? :confused:



(I too have heard new and impressive things here. games in particular make me drool with this set.)
 
Hmmm no I don't switch off from the sub switch.

There it's happened again I just switched them on and they're on PLII Movie. I'm missing out something for sure because up to some weeks ago they had been switching on 6Ch Direct...
 
Well, even if I turn them off form the sub switch the speakers DO remember my settings. You must have a problem or a different firmware? :confused:
 
They've always been like that.

I checked Danish's first post of this thread, seems no one has firmware v2.0.9 like I have?
 
Hello everyone. I'm about 2 steps away from getting a Z-5500 speaker systems, but I have a question about the 6 channel direct cable. I can't find any pictures of it on the internet. Am I right by assumin that one end is 3 mini Jack plugs and the other end is RCA plugs?

Also does anyone know how the speakers sound with HD Audio like SACD? Cause I might buy an SACD player to go along with it.

Thanks for such a great forum and a dedicated thread to the Z-5500 guys!
 
Legend of Leroy Bad said:
Hello everyone. I'm about 2 steps away from getting a Z-5500 speaker systems, but I have a question about the 6 channel direct cable. I can't find any pictures of it on the internet. Am I right by assumin that one end is 3 mini Jack plugs and the other end is RCA plugs?

Also does anyone know how the speakers sound with HD Audio like SACD? Cause I might buy an SACD player to go along with it.

Thanks for such a great forum and a dedicated thread to the Z-5500 guys!
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both ends of the supplied main cable are minijack.... you dont have the use the supplied cable though and you can buy cables with RCA - Minijack from audio shops if you need.

alternatively you can use co-axial or optical... or 3 pairs of "RCA - minijack"
 
the 6 channel cables are 3 pairs of standard stereo plugs - the same as on the PC soundcard, or headphones for example.

The speakers themselves use RCA plugs on early models of these speakers, most that you'll get today use strands of wire (supplied, and a lot easier to attach/remove)
 
Ok thanks guys, I get it. What about hooking it up to an SACD player? Are the Z-5500 speakers good enough to take advantage of HD Audio?
Also are the speakers upgradable?
 
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i have no idea what an SACD player is, sorry.

Well they are THX certified, so at a guess... yeah. These are the best you can get in PC speakers, and they certainly challenge a lot of home cinema speakers. your definition of 'HD' audio leaves a bit to be desired. If you're talking onboard HD audio, that means next to nothing. If you mean digital audio like dolby digital and DTS, then yes - they decode those wonderfully.
 
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