Tell me about the... Z5500's

Nice speakers, quality is awesome. Few problems I'll mention ...

Fuses blow often (for me anyway) so you will deffo want a few spares. This tends to happen when I move speakers around while the system is unplugged.

If you move speakers around often then the screws under losening them and you can't tighten them as they've been glued to prevent people unscrewing them and losing the inside nut. You can if you melt the glue and then use a screwdriver but at your own risk.

Sometimes when I power the system from dead (unplugged from wall or sub off) the control centre wont boot unless I use the remote which isn't a problem just something I've noticed.

I wall mounted my rear ones by using a screw in the wall which wasn't hard really and they've stayed up well ... we'll see in 6 months time.

All in all they are good speakers for <£200 I doubt you can get a better 5.1, cheaper.
 
Yep your are correct about the fuses.

I powered on my speakers in one room to test them... unplugged them and moved them - Blew a fuse... went and bought a pack of 10! - All within an hour of getting the speakers.

Not powered them off again so dont know if a higher quality fuse will work any better!
 
Didnt notice any problems with the fuse but I was VERY careful when moving them, I've displugged it twice now with the button on the rear...


Cool about the 2nd skin volume, it changed it from linear to logaritmic :D, wich is nicer as I can finetune the lower volume levels more ( I usually listen upto 1/3rd of the normall skin volume, wich still sends some furniture rattling in my room ( closet doors, and the window above my entry door) and coz I don't want to pee off the neighbors too much from listening to insane loud music for hours at every day lol) but I dont think the max volume has changed. Will renember tho for next time that if it breaks I must replace the fuse.

Also tx for the extra boost info, so actually I still havent had it even halfway of it's true max volume, wich is well er awesome.


Still haven't properly mounted em yet all, the cables are going straight through my room and only 1 sat is screwed to the wall the others are just standing loose.
 
I've been listening a bit more just now and I have to say even with the sub volume lowered, this set is lacking in high and middle tones compared to lets say the ages old amp set of my dad downstairs ( wich costed 1500+€ at the time it was bought).

Would a better soundcard ( eg. asus xonar or XFI extrememusic) make the higher and middle tones sound a bit better ( atm got an Audigy SE to repeat for lazy ppl :p) ?
I've also read on another forum that replacing the cheap logitech wires by some proper wires improves sound quality by quite a bit, would the change be significant ?

I've also read that if you got some knowlage with equalizers, even a software one can improve the quality of the middle and high tones by a lot, does anyone know something about this ?
 
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changing the wires on a cheap set of speakers is likely to do bugger all as the problem are the speakers themselves. you have already quite quickly noticed the shortfalls of a cheap sub+sat set - no midrange beeing one of them.


with equalizers yes you can do something about it, but it'll never come close to a set of speakers that get it right first time.
 
Well after a few weeks of usage I can say my money was superbly spent, I'm listening to more music than ever ( 1010 trakcs a week according to last.fm) and with DFX in light processing mode adding ''4'' dynamic boost it sounds great. A lot of stuff that used to sound good ( eg. standard car stereo) now sounds as complete bass-less rubbish to me.

I highly recommend the z5500's to anyone that has something worse and that doesn't have rubbish neighbors. Best buy in years for my pc.
 
I had the Z-5500's, thought they were amazing till i bought a Yamaha DSP-AX761 and a pair of Mordaunt 902i's.
I still have 3 of the Z's in my 5.1 atm, but the 902's realy bring out the faults in the Z's.
 
Perhaps when I get cash in a year or 2 I'll upgrade again, but atm I'm a broke jobless teenager so I'm stuck with the Z5500's, not that I really mind atm.
 
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