Z-5500 Control Pods' headphone jack.

Supernaut91

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Ok heres the issue, I have got a new set of headphones.

Just listened to Porcupinetree - Voyage 34 on my iPhone 4 and my the bass was just incredible with the sound just melting.

I connect the headphones up to the z-5500 control pod which has a headphone 3.5mm jack on the side. The sound quality is no where near the same. I thought this could be my sound card (PCI X-Fi Fatal1ty Xtreme Gamer Professional Series)

Tried on the onboard and it sounds a lot more accurate with sounds being punchier and much deeper.

So whats the isssue, must I use a socket on the PC itself? Any help will be greatly appreciated. :p
 
Hi, I've got a set of z-5500 and although I don't normally use the headphone output I'd be a bit surprised if it sounded radically different from the soundcard's output.

Are you connecting your sound card to the Z-5500 via digital or analogue? Could there be surround effects / processing being applied at the soundcard or in the z5500s to make them sound different - e.g. filtering low frequencies out of the satellites' outputs which is what you might be hearing with the headphone output?
 
From what I read the 3.5mm on the control pod is meant to be brutal for amplification and sound quality. Read it here when looking for an amp. Tried mine tonight on my modded pc350s and it didn't sound any better than my onboard and there was a good bit of interference but my jacks never been used in the years I have owned them.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/397485/logitech-z5500-built-in-headphone-amp-any-reviews/15
 
Headphone sockets on speakers are there for convenience. Poor cheap components ensure the sound is butchered by the time it gets to the headphones, that's why so many people tell others to connect direct to the sound card.

It makes me laugh when people who have decent headphones, connect them to a PC speaker headphone socket.

Shows how many lazy people there are, and would rather take the easy route, than the one that offers the better sound quality.
 
Marsman said:
Headphone sockets on speakers are there for convenience. Poor cheap components ensure the sound is butchered by the time it gets to the headphones, that's why so many people tell others to connect direct to the sound card.

It makes me laugh when people who have decent headphones, connect them to a PC speaker headphone socket.

Shows how many lazy people there are, and would rather take the easy route, than the one that offers the better sound quality.
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This whole thread is designed in order for me to get the best sound quality through the headphones and was only a matter of enquiring to what the headphone jack is actually like.

I have purchased an gold plated 1.5m male-female extendable lead which will lengthen the cable.
 
As has been mentioned, the headphone out on the z5500's is awful. Even cranked up full it is very quiet. What i have done is connect my headphones to the rear analogue output. As i have the pc connected via digital coax, all i do when I want to use headphones is go into sound devices and select 'speakers' as preffered device as opposed to 'digital'. Don't even need to connect or disconnect the headphones.
 
Supernaut91 said:
This whole thread is designed in order for me to get the best sound quality through the headphones and was only a matter of enquiring to what the headphone jack is actually like.

I have purchased an gold plated 1.5m male-female extendable lead which will lengthen the cable.
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I apologise, I didn't mean to have a go at you personally.

There are too many people using decent headphones, who plug them into a speaker headphone socket, just because it's easy.

Using a 3.5mm extension lead, is a much better way. :)
 
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