Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround Speakers Review

**ian** · 02-08-2009, 04:50 AM

http://www.techzine.com/2009/02/07/l...ound-speakers/
This review was by http://www.techzine.com/author/nevakonaza/

Schonza · 02-08-2009, 09:05 AM

Nice! Good to see a CF member doing these kind of things.

Show your knowledge!

**epidemik** · 02-10-2009, 05:37 AM

Thanks for the review.

How well do they work with music. I have a friend who got some logitech surround sound speakers (dont knwo which model off the top of my head) and he only could get music to come from the front speakers. Is that the case with these as well?

**Nevakonaza** · 02-10-2009, 08:02 AM

your welcome

They are honestly realy great speakers,i didnt expect them to be as good quality as they are for the price.

all speakers work listening to music,playing games,movies etc and if you switch on the "Matrix" Function in films the voice and talking comes through one dedicated speaker which would be the one that mounts above your monitor.

however i have found that in some movies,and games the metrix system doesnt work right and you dont get any voice but thats easily fixed by just turning off matrix.

still sounds great with it off

voyagerfan99 · 02-11-2009, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by epidemik

Thanks for the review.

How well do they work with music. I have a friend who got some logitech surround sound speakers (dont knwo which model off the top of my head) and he only could get music to come from the front speakers. Is that the case with these as well?

Get a card like the 5.1/7.1 SoundBlaster Audigy. It comes with equalizer and tuning software. It has a feature called CMSS 3D and you can choose to have sound play out of all 5 speakers. The matrix mode sucks to be frank.

mahnac · 02-11-2009, 05:19 AM

My friend got these speakers and I realy liked the little hand control module, it makes everything a lot easier.

MouSe · 02-11-2009, 11:33 AM

I have the older version of these speakers. Mine doesn't have the wired remote, I have to control everything on-speaker. Still though, I paid the same amount of money they are now today. That part sucks for y'all honestly. Other than that though, I will NEVER give things up unless they just quit working. Then I'll just buy another set LOL!!

SRcobra · 02-22-2009, 03:39 PM

Just ordered mine, should be here by tuesday

Cheers for the review, told me just what i wanted to know.

One thing though, how long are the cables for the back speakers? cant seem to find an answer :/

Cheers

-Sach

**Nevakonaza** · 02-22-2009, 03:50 PM

a rough guess because i dont have a tape measure at hand,they are around 3 metres long.
not all that long if you want them each corner of the room,especialyy if you have a big room anyway

i suppose you could buy some sort of cable extentions for it though.

where did you order your speakers from sach?

SRcobra · 02-23-2009, 08:12 PM

Amazon, i think ebuyer may have been cheaper but i forgot my password, then i forgot what my favourite film for the secret question was, haha.

I think ill get some phono extentions from maplin, my room is fairly small, but its gonna be a tight, they'll either just make it or be just off the mark.
Its a shame logitech didn't include longer cables or an optical input, ah well

-Sach

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Nevakonaza Yottabyte Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: UK Age: 23 Posts: 18,527	your welcome They are honestly realy great speakers,i didnt expect them to be as good quality as they are for the price. all speakers work listening to music,playing games,movies etc and if you switch on the "Matrix" Function in films the voice and talking comes through one dedicated speaker which would be the one that mounts above your monitor. however i have found that in some movies,and games the metrix system doesnt work right and you dont get any voice but thats easily fixed by just turning off matrix. still sounds great with it off __________________ Core i7 860 @ 3.8Ghz\|Asus P7H55-M/USB3\|8GB Ripjaws 1600Mhz CL7\|MSI Frozr III 6950 2GB "Power Edition" 2x Vertex 2E 60Gb SSD \|2x Barracudas 250GB\|Asus Xonar D1\|7 Home Premium X64 SP1.

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mahnac Byte Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 32	My friend got these speakers and I realy liked the little hand control module, it makes everything a lot easier. __________________ MAHNAC

02-11-2009, 11:33 AM	#7
MouSe Kilobyte Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 342	I have the older version of these speakers. Mine doesn't have the wired remote, I have to control everything on-speaker. Still though, I paid the same amount of money they are now today. That part sucks for y'all honestly. Other than that though, I will NEVER give things up unless they just quit working. Then I'll just buy another set LOL!! __________________ --Gaming Rig-- Cooler Master HAF 932 MOBO: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 3.2 GHz PSU: 850W Corsair RAM: 3x2GB Corsair DDR3 HDD1: 500GB Western Digital HDD2: 1 TB Western Digital HDD3: 1 TB Western Digital GPU: 2x XFX NVIDIA GTX 285 1 Gig

02-22-2009, 03:39 PM	#8
SRcobra Kilobyte Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: UK Posts: 243	Just ordered mine, should be here by tuesday Cheers for the review, told me just what i wanted to know. One thing though, how long are the cables for the back speakers? cant seem to find an answer :/ Cheers -Sach __________________ Monitor - Dell 2409W. Case- Antec 300. Motherboard - Asus P5N32-E Sli. CPU - Intel E7200. Memory - 2GB OCZ 800Mhz,. Graphics Card - XFX 9600GSO. HD - Samsung Spindrive 500GB.

02-22-2009, 03:50 PM	#9
Nevakonaza Yottabyte Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: UK Age: 23 Posts: 18,527	a rough guess because i dont have a tape measure at hand,they are around 3 metres long. not all that long if you want them each corner of the room,especialyy if you have a big room anyway i suppose you could buy some sort of cable extentions for it though. where did you order your speakers from sach? __________________ Core i7 860 @ 3.8Ghz\|Asus P7H55-M/USB3\|8GB Ripjaws 1600Mhz CL7\|MSI Frozr III 6950 2GB "Power Edition" 2x Vertex 2E 60Gb SSD \|2x Barracudas 250GB\|Asus Xonar D1\|7 Home Premium X64 SP1. Last edited by Nevakonaza; 02-22-2009 at 04:21 PM.

02-23-2009, 08:12 PM	#10
SRcobra Kilobyte Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: UK Posts: 243	Amazon, i think ebuyer may have been cheaper but i forgot my password, then i forgot what my favourite film for the secret question was, haha. I think ill get some phono extentions from maplin, my room is fairly small, but its gonna be a tight, they'll either just make it or be just off the mark. Its a shame logitech didn't include longer cables or an optical input, ah well -Sach __________________ Monitor - Dell 2409W. Case- Antec 300. Motherboard - Asus P5N32-E Sli. CPU - Intel E7200. Memory - 2GB OCZ 800Mhz,. Graphics Card - XFX 9600GSO. HD - Samsung Spindrive 500GB.

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