Logitech Z-5500 // Anyone got?

I bought a set just last week. Fantastic set of speakers if you have the spare cash. It tooks me 2 weeks of deliberation to finally drop the cash for them, and I'm really pleased with them so far!
 
if you have opportunities to blast them then id say go for it. Being a uni student @ halls i usually have them on over full volume. At home for 2 weeks for easter I dare not turn them up past 1/4 volume.

For connectivity its awesome, especially if you have a 360/ps3.
Everything at the press of a button is nice :)

I'd say get them, they are very nice to have
 
Must have had them over 2 years now and they are fantastic

Sound quality is superb and the amount of connectivity options is a really good feature

Highly recommend them
 
I've also had them for over 2/3 years too. Excellent piece of kit . . they sound awesome, they're super loud and Logitech have the best CS I've personally experienced. You won't find better value for money! :)
 
Had them for over a year now and I totally agree with all the above posts as they are awesome.

Some points to bear in mind however;
The sub is HUGE! I mean really HUGE nearly died lifting it out of the box!

The control centre is bigger than it looks in the pictures but it looks even better in real life.

The cable linking the sub to the control centre is not that long so you may want to think carefully about where you are going to place everything!
 
When I got mine it blew its fuse the second time that I turned it on! Since then I have gone through about a dozen fuses that went when I turned the power off and then on at a later point so mine was on standby for long periods :D .... Eventually Logitech sent me a fuse a few months ago and it has been OK since. Had it nearly 18 months now ... I built my computer table to house the woofer perfectly :p

Overall I am very happy with them (apart from the fuse issue!) but my wife aint that pleased at times - guests have been somewhat impressed by my computer speakers. I use them for games and sometimes music when I am working from home ...
 
Its a great speaker system, had it over 2 year now, RMA'd once, but best £211 spent. Dont quite get people who say the sub is HUGE and HEAVY though, I'm pretty weak person but I can lift it with one arm lol, it looks heavy and huge but you havent seen some subs if you think the z5500 is huge look at propor HT subs :eek:.

What I think about the set is, for movies, BRILLIANT!, I was watching transporter 2 on it couple weeks back and had it wacked up, really clear bass and all that and it was pretty immersive. Its OK for music, some music sounds awsome on it, especially that on DVD's, but some music is just ok, the high's can get abit irritating sometimes, its abit hard to explain but its like sometimes you hear like a squeak or it just vibrated in your ears and causes abit of pain on some frequencys when the volume is quite high but apart from that its really good. For games yea its brilliant, IMO any speakers would do for games unless you like to play with volume wacked up and heaps of bass.

This fuse issue people complain about, it seems it happens mostly when people turn the set off at the back of the sub, should avoid doing this really as it does cause the fuse to blow, I just switch it off at the wall.
 
willhub said:
This fuse issue people complain about, it seems it happens mostly when people turn the set off at the back of the sub, should avoid doing this really as it does cause the fuse to blow, I just switch it off at the wall.
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Make sure the pod is OFF before turning of at the wall.

Power surge through the cack fuse in the sub causes it to blow. :) (ever turned the plug off or a light on and the sub gone "POP" in a deep bass way? Bye bye fuse :D
 
but you havent seen some subs if you think the z5500 is huge look at propor HT subs .
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That driver is a 12". And it's got four of them.
 
ive also noticed with some dubstep I have, the sub bottles out at the lower freqs, and at high volume i usually have to have the sub on ~2 bars of "volume" else it cant cope.

Still, it copes very well and has done with whatever Ive thrown at them. I can feel me wanting richer deep bass (when I can afford it lol)
 
Psypher5 said:
ive also noticed with some dubstep I have, the sub bottles out at the lower freqs, and at high volume i usually have to have the sub on ~2 bars of "volume" else it cant cope.

Still, it copes very well and has done with whatever Ive thrown at them. I can feel me wanting richer deep bass (when I can afford it lol)
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you'll find thats just a design limit of smaller ported subs. you generally need either a bigger cone area or more cone travel (how far in and out it can move) to drive those lower frequencies, or both is even better lol. a small ported box will have a high tuning frequency, for something like that sub it could be around 40-50hz!, and so below that the box stops working as a cushion for the driver and it unloads itself very quickly. try playing some test tones at 20hz or so, not too loudly lol, and you'll see it'll flap about madly but you'll get very little output from it.

ive just gone from a ported 12" to a sealed 15" driver. the response is damn incredible for a £50 subwoofer. apart from a hump i have at 50hz (room problems, happens with the main speakers to), the responce is near flat (+/- 3dba or so) to 8hz. it obviously needs quite a lot more power being a sealed subwoofer, and wont have such a high output, but it does sound remarkably better than the 12" driver it replaced with music. The audyssey room correction on my amp shoudl sort all that out hopefully.
 
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Aye james. I'm still surprised how it copes with lower freq's to be fair, I know if i heared something like your on about it would blow me away and I'd hate you for letting me listen, but for the joe bloggs who wants loud bass that aint that bad its a defo thumbs up :) But in time you'll appreciate what they are (as you say, just a small ported sub) and get the upgrade itch :P


@ OP let us know what you think of them when you get 'em :D Pics are a must ;)
 
I've seen some 12" 500W RMS subs and even a 15" one at a well known computer store and they are only like £50, think they are called Lanzer or something, I was thinking of getting an amp and that and building a box and wiring my Z5500 sattelites on it too.

When I play a 20Hz test tone the sub has like 1+" excursion, posted it on youtube, and in some parts of the room what I hear is LOUD, it sounds more like 35Hz though and not 20Hz that its trying to play.

Also on some songs I've wacked it up to the point of bottoming out, then turned it down one bar, waited like 5 seconds and wacked it past the point were it was bottoming out and the weird thing was it was no longer bottoming out, but I have to watch how long I play it that loud as the voice coil heats up abit.

I have abit of Hardstyle on here and some chavvy beats lol and wack those up and they shake the room and are very loud, thats the only reason I listin to those sort as the bass or mid range is very loud and thumping. Played this song called H two O or something and the bass or mid range on that really does pound! And its loud were I sit in the corner but when I go to the window its at least twice as louder to my ears, also when I'm sitting at the PC and turn it up my vision shakes about.
 
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