Logitech Z-5500 Question

smids · 27 Mar 2006 at 18:34

speedy2004 said:
someone said analog is 0 and 1s and digital is waves

No, no, no. Analogue is like a sine wave (remeber from maths?). Like a wavey line. Digital is 1's and 0's and there is only either on,1, or off, 0. This is why when you have bad digital TV reception, you either get a crystal picture or nothing at all. Analogue works all over the place because it has a full range from one peak of the wave to the other. It is also the reason you can get ghosting on TV as waves reach the aerial at slightly different times, causing them to go out of phase - anyway, I think that is probably enough of an explanation.

Blue Peter style

Psypher5 · 27 Mar 2006 at 19:00

LMFAO you copywrited it.

smids · 27 Mar 2006 at 19:05

Psypher5 said:
LMFAO you copywrited it.

Damn straight!!

Psymonkee · 27 Mar 2006 at 19:42

It's wonky as well

Very Blue Peter :>

DarkShadow · 27 Mar 2006 at 21:33

smids said:
Damn straight!!

Brilliant!

And you sir, have the post of the day

Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2006 at 11:48

I have an Audigy 2 and just bought the Z-5500s

I have currently connected it together with the supplied cables... but I want to connect it via a digital connection too, using the digital out on my sound card... what cables do I need etc?

smids · 4 May 2006 at 15:35

Danger Phoenix said:
I have an Audigy 2 and just bought the Z-5500s

I have currently connected it together with the supplied cables... but I want to connect it via a digital connection too, using the digital out on my sound card... what cables do I need etc?

Get a Coaxial cable (male both ends - audio cable) and then you need a coax (aka phono - female) to 3.5mm MONO male jack (look for one single black band on the 3.5mm jack end). Then plug it into the digital out and the coax onto the back of the control pod - exactly what I did

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Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2006 at 15:37

smids said:
Get a Coaxial cable (male both ends - audio cable) and then you need a coax (aka phono - female) to 3.5mm MONO male jack (look for one single black band on the 3.5mm jack end). Then plug it into the digital out and the coax onto the back of the control pod - exactly what I did .

Any pros and cons for using digital over analog?

I could have both... but which is better for the following uses:

MP3s
DVDs
Games

DarkShadow · 4 May 2006 at 15:54

I have optical cable (digital) hooked up aswell as analogue.

I prefer analogue, as my dinovo doesn't like volume controls with digital.

Sounds fantastic too!

Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2006 at 16:00

I rarely watch DVD films anyway, and the Audigy has a good decoder anyway, so not really much point in investing more money for a digital connection, is there?

DarkShadow · 4 May 2006 at 16:09

If you're not going to be using it for multiple sources at once, I don't see much of a reason to.

Sounds fantastic through my current set up

smids · 4 May 2006 at 17:21

Danger Phoenix said:
I rarely watch DVD films anyway, and the Audigy has a good decoder anyway, so not really much point in investing more money for a digital connection, is there?

Thing is, for music and DVD's I use digital and for games analogue (e.g. EAX which requires analogue). It doesn't cost much to use digital anyway (cost me about £5 for both cable and converter) so I thought I might as well use digital and use the decoder on the sub to receive digital surround for films.

sunlitsix · 4 May 2006 at 17:41

for the digital out, on the options for the xfi should i set it to 48khz or 96khz sampling rate?

smids · 4 May 2006 at 17:56

sunlitsix said:
for the digital out, on the options for the xfi should i set it to 48khz or 96khz sampling rate?

I just set mine to 96 - didn't notice any difference though - though the higher number seems better

james.miller · 4 May 2006 at 17:58

you wont see any difference.it may make a difference for 2 channel 96khz encoded material, but you try and find any lol

sunlitsix · 4 May 2006 at 22:50

well i set it to 96Khz, and yup noticed no difference at all

using coax btw (and analogue for games)

ic1male · 15 May 2006 at 23:24

I think I've decided on a set of these speakers.

So I can use the analogue 3-jack connectors for my PC and the optical connection for an Xbox 360?

smids · 15 May 2006 at 23:33

ic1male said:
I think I've decided on a set of these speakers.

So I can use the analogue 3-jack connectors for my PC and the optical connection for an Xbox 360?

Yes.... Similar to mine except I only have a PS2

- but I'm waiting for the PS3

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