jds21

the sub is your main bass source, if you turn your sub off... there is next to no bass left running through your system.

I have the G51 and I can tell you in confidence that they are a great system. Sound very good for music and movies.... and of course games. They are nowhere near as powerful as the Z-5500s but if you have a small area then the G51 will be plenty. I have them in my bedroom and they are more than enough but if you have a bigger space and like everything loud then the Z-5500s or other high RNS output systems would be better for you

When it comes to which speaker is which... the G51 have colour coded cables so instalation is easy and each speaker (i.e front right, front left, centre, reas left, rear right) are easily distinguishable by the cable colour and cable length...

hope that helps

Gravite

I just bought the x-530 and it sounds average i dunno why i kept getting headache

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mkjaekmi

so 5 speakers is including the bass or no? It's for back corners, 2 for front corners, and 1 speaker in the mid and 1 bass correct?

So a subwoofer is basically a bass, correct?

WhiteFireDragon

IMO, logitechs are the best bang for your bucks. i have the z-5450 for about a year (i bought it right before it got discontinued). wow they are powerful with clean sound. volume wise, i never get to go past 1/3 of the way because i live in an appartment and any lounder than past 1/3 up, i get complaints. and the z5500 is even a little bit louder. both models can be used for gaming and a home system because they both have plenty of connection options. i don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but the z5450 is wireless on the rear and it totally dominates my whole wireless system. if you have a wireless mouse or connected a laptop to a router by wireless, you will get bad signals from everything else if you turn on the speakers.

jds21

the Z-5500s, are the most vercitile speakers around imo... they can easily be hooked up to a PC, TV, gaming console or home theatre and be more than enough for all of them.... i have heard them before coz i friend of mine has them and if it is up half way, we can hear it down the street.... it really is a VERY LOUD system

Yes, there are 5 speakers and 1 subwoofer... that's why they are called 5.1

and i also agree that logitech are the best bang for buck and quite simple to setup and use. The X range is the budget end, the G51 is the middle range and the Z range is the high-end systems

mkjaekmi

how is g51 better for gaming if it's half the price with less power? What does it have that z5500 doesn't have?

Also, I can hook up g51 or z5500 to my t.v? How will it sound with g51 with my t.v?

Also, is it possibly toh ook up my z5500 or g51 to my pc and the t.v at the same time?

Gravite

its weird that i can't get my musics to work with all speakers... Only works when i play games that support 5.1 sounds and movies that supports 5.1. Anything else like 2 channels won't work... And alot of people said theres a way to make it work but i don't know how...

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Here is a rundown to relieve any confusion.

- z5500s can hook up to a Coaxial, Optical, or 3.5mm (headphone/PC) jacks

- If money is not an object then the Z-5500s are easily the best logitech has to offer.

- 5.1 mean 5 speakers and a subwoofer
the .1 is for the subwoofer because it is used to play the lower 10% of the sound spectrum.
5.1 = surround sound
6 speakers:
Center
Left Front
Right Front
Left Rear
Right Rear
Subwoofer

- A subwoofer is a special speaker that is the biggest speaker in a package because the bigger the speakers, the lower frequencies it can play.
- The smaller the speaker, the higher the frequencies it can play. This is why you see most high-quality stereo systems with varying speakers size, so the speakers can reach all of the frequencies on the sound spectrum.
- The Z-5500 has a 10" subwoofer, the biggest logitech has to offer in terms of PC speakers. Subwoofers are the difference between BOOM and thump when something blows up in your game.
- The G51s are being recommended because they sound great at $100 less, you didn't give a budget of how much money u were willing to spend so its hard to recommend a speaker system. Hell if you wanted you could go spend $5000 or more on a speaker system.
- RMS is a rating (incorrectly) used to measure the average peak power the amp in the speakers can put out without distortion.
- G51 = 155 watts
Z-5500 = 505 watts
This means that the Z-5500 can go MUCH louder with no distortion to the sound also there is much more power used to power the big 10" subwoofer and the rest of the speakers for a boost in overall sound quality.

- either speaker sytem will sound fine on your TV because they use something called a "decoder". Since most audio sources only have a left audio channel and a right audio channel (this is called "stereo) normally this would only allow sound to go to 2 speakers, A decoder is used to make the left and right channel sound output to all 6 speakers.

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mkjaekmi

So is bass a stereo or the sound? Cause I here people saying they sell bass, never herd them saying subwoofer, or is it because bass is easier to say?

Subwoofer is basically the bass stereo. bass is basically the boom sound. Correct?


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CG man

Bass is the sound of the lower end of the sound spectrum they say bass when describing the type of sound. All normal spekers produce bass sound but no normal speaker can hit the low end of the sound spectrum like the subwoofer can hit. With a subwoofer pluged in an explosion in a game will be heard by everyone in the house it gives a huge thump to the floor at the same time as hitting the low notes.

For my PC sound I prefair seperates amplifier and Speackers designed for music more clear and powerfull sound and more sound detail than any PC sound package.

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