listerning to music question

[Phil2008]

I have the z680 5.1 speaker system. While listerning to music in winamp, all 5 speakers work... is this right or should winamp only be using 2 or 4 speakers?

 

[wellibob]

Set your logitech system to output your desired sound effect. I assume you got it connected via optical out.

 

[fish99]

I believe there's a setting for both soundcard and speakers, they can both upmix stereo music to 5.1.

 

[jbloggs]

speedy2004:

On the Control Pod, you have a choice called Input, here you can select what kind of signal input you get into your speakers, ie Direct (analogue), Coaxial (digital) or Optical (digital), I have both Direct & Coaxial set up.

Then on the "Effect" setting, you also have a selection you can make, with Direct selected you can have Music, Movie, 6 ch Direct, Stereo and Stereo x2.

With Coaxial select you get a choice of Music, Movie, Stereo and Stereo x2 to choose from.

I find for playing music, I get the best sound from having the Coxial and Effect set to "Music", this gives a 5:1 sound, if you ONLY want a traditional "stereo" effect then choose "Stereo".

 

[james.miller]

music is ment to be 2 channel. end of.





/however, how you want to play it is entirely up to you. Most software/hardware combo's defualt to multi channel for music, though i'm firmly in the 'music is 2 channel camp'. Well.....2 channel + subwoofer