Edifier S550 The Z5500 destroyers!

Andrew Moore · 25 Jan 2011 at 22:54

EDIFIER S550

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Well, after getting a set of these in at OcUK to look at and after previously owning a set of Z5500s I was very interested to see how well these performed.

The first thing that comes to your attention is the fact that that Subwoofer alone is bigger than the whole Z5500 package and weighs in at an horrendous 29kg! Thats 5 stone give or take :eek:

The satellites are built out of wood and resemble high end mini bookshelf speakers making the Z5500 affairs seem cheap in comparison.

The whole package is superior in every way when compared to the Z5500s blowing them clear out of the water for sheer volume and bettering sound quality to a point nearing the precision of the near perfect Aego Ms. The only let down is the fact that the Z5500s have digital connections (optical) which the Edifier are lacking making them only really any good for a home theater if connected direct to an amp although this setup would be leagues away from using a generic set of the logitechs.

Heres a few pics of the unboxed product...

Let me know your thoughts and feel free to ask any questions

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Sleeve · 25 Jan 2011 at 23:09

DO WANT!

xb8browney · 25 Jan 2011 at 23:13

An extra £100 and with the Z5500 being 5-6 years old they should be better.

Andrew Moore · 25 Jan 2011 at 23:16

xb8browney said:
An extra £100 and with the Z5500 being 5-6 years old they should be better.

With logitechs latest price increases they are actually £30 cheaper..

Those with cheaper stock still have stock at the old cost price so £200 Z5500s wont last much longer making these speakers 10% less and a better speaker. An absolute bargain when you look at what you get for the money

Fanatic · 26 Jan 2011 at 00:13

Free shipping on these beasts must be a killer for OcUK

Marsman · 26 Jan 2011 at 00:32

One good thing with these, over the Z5500's. If it is indeed true, that the Z5500's convert incoming analogue into digital, then back into analogue, that makes using a sound card based on sound quality, pointless. As these Edifer's are analogue only, the sound card's quality will be utilised.

valkia · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:49

They are absolute boss. A 5.1 system which produces some of the deepest bass's known to man and a fantastic frequency range. I want a pair

Maccy · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:56

Could do with these, but I just don't have that amount of money spare

Purgatory · 26 Jan 2011 at 09:59

Review here Logitech Z-5500 Vs Edifier S550

http://translate.google.com/transla...ua/article.php?task=art&art=182&sl=auto&tl=en

Review of Edifier S550: the opinion of our technical specialists

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Test Speaker Edifier S550

http://translate.google.com/transla...&u=http://article.techlabs.by/100_7632_1.html

Acoustic Test Logitech Z-5500 Digital

http://translate.google.com/transla...en&u=http://article.techlabs.by/100_6888.html

Looks at the Edifier S550's and says in next version add Digital inputs and processing then I want you !

Looking at my Logitech Z-5500's and wondering why the hell they built the sats out of plastic.... grrr

Andrew Moore · 26 Jan 2011 at 10:19

And here is an selection of images to show the main differences

So there you have it.. far larger, better quality satellites and instead of a 10" sub with port, the S550 has 2x 8" woofers and a 10" woofer in a closed box for tighter, deeper, more responsive base

NathWraith · 26 Jan 2011 at 10:29

Want these badly! Sound awesome with real music going through them

Andrew Moore · 26 Jan 2011 at 10:39

NathWraith said:
Want these badly! Sound awesome with real music going through them

Real music meaning instruments making noise as a collective din I take it?

Boozebeard · 26 Jan 2011 at 10:50

I wonder if this will force the z-5500's back down in price?

Lethagized · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:06

Looks like logitech need to step up their game. These look fantastic.

I read on here the other day that the Z5500's are being replaced, but what is replacing them?

Purgatory · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:10

RobRX-7 said:
I read on here the other day that the Z5500's are being replaced, but what is replacing them?

Logitech Z906's will be replacing the Z-5500's planned launch date April 2011.. No specs yet they could be cut down Z-5500's for all we know so far...

Andrew Moore · 26 Jan 2011 at 12:45

Boozebeard said:
I wonder if this will force the z-5500's back down in price?

Id like to think so but the only cheap Z5500s on the internet at the moment are old stock. When these go the cost will be high everywhere and Logitech dont seem in any mood to change it. Hopefully this little beauty will shock them into it

RobRX-7 said:
Looks like logitech need to step up their game. These look fantastic.

I read on here the other day that the Z5500's are being replaced, but what is replacing them?

These really are fantastic! Quality like the Aego M but horrendously powerful making the Z5500s sound weak. Where logitech get their 505w RMS from is anyones guess.

Purgatory said:
Logitech Z906's will be replacing the Z-5500's planned launch date April 2011.. No specs yet they could be cut down Z-5500's for all we know so far...

Z906s I should imagine will be similar to the Z623 but with all the added bells and whistles of the Z5500. Hopefully they will be priced below the S550 and will sound as good. But its all guess work at the moment as the Z906 are under NDA so no official details are really known about them yet.

Purgatory · 26 Jan 2011 at 13:45

Andrew Moore said:
Z906s I should imagine will be similar to the Z623 but with all the added bells and whistles of the Z5500. Hopefully they will be priced below the S550 and will sound as good. But its all guess work at the moment as the Z906 are under NDA so no official details are really known about them yet.

Hope not, just checked the Z623's and they look pretty naff to me... I hope they are all new speakers and nothing like the Z623's or I will be keeping the Z-5500's or looking at the S550's or their replacement in the future.

Global_Inferno · 26 Jan 2011 at 15:36

These do look pretty sweet... Now if only I wasn't on a quest for a "perfect" headphone gaming setup these might have had a chance! They look waaaaaayyy better than the "older" Z-5500s that my father has, almost as good looking as separates, I wonder how they'd fair against my Kef setup!?

Andrew Moore · 26 Jan 2011 at 16:25

Purgatory said:
Hope not, just checked the Z623's and they look pretty naff to me... I hope they are all new speakers and nothing like the Z623's or I will be keeping the Z-5500's or looking at the S550's or their replacement in the future.

You know you want some S550s

Global_Inferno said:
These do look pretty sweet... Now if only I wasn't on a quest for a "perfect" headphone gaming setup these might have had a chance! They look waaaaaayyy better than the "older" Z-5500s that my father has, almost as good looking as separates, I wonder how they'd fair against my Kef setup!?

To be honest they fair reasonably well however I have a mission setup with a KEF sub and it is better but cn you really compare a £300 set of S550s to that sort of system at £1000+?

Andrew Moore · 28 Jan 2011 at 08:50

These are now in stock and creating a hell of a lot of attention.

Go on, buy a set, you know you want to

** Edifier S550 ** The Z5500 destroyers!

Edifier S550 The Z5500 destroyers!