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This sound system has brought my computer to life. Games, movies, youtube music videos, I do it all on my computer now and the experience is amazing. The built-in feature is also a great bonus. The price isn't cheap, but you are really getting the bang for your buck.
These speakers blew me away, by far the best computer speakers one can own. My neighbors more than likely but they'll get over it. These speakers definitely thump so be prepared.
Like the product fine. THE FOLLOWING DAY Amazon reduced the price substantially. Looked at it on Amazon for over a year, hoping to get a better price. Finally decided to purchase. I requested the new purchase price, got a terse, "sorry, but no" response. Kept the product.but Amazon lost a buying customer.
Logitech should really update this design to meet the growing technology. 500 watts with THX certification. For the money, as countless others have stated, this system can't be beat. I highly recommend you purchase this system. It's a pain running speaker wire all around the room and trying to hide it from view. So, I can overlook this flaw.
Buy your cables from monoprice.com for a few dollars a piece and you're ready to rock. I actually purchased this system from a competing company to amazon, for $198 plus free shipping. forget what others say, this system is LOUD. So loud, it shakes my whole house and can be heard blocks down the street if I have a window open and crank the volum up to boost mode. I've had the Z-5500's now for about 9 months and my opinion of them hasn't changed since day 1. So, anyone who says they sound "hollow" or "tiny" when placed in a large room is full of crap. My only real complaints are: It would be nice to have wireless rear speakers, for obvious reasons.
AND, the speaker wire they give you isn't nearly long enough if you're not using this system in a small dorm room, so be prepared to shell out for your own speaker wire. Also, no HDMI input/output. If I don't feel like turning the ps3 on to listen to music, I'll just connect my iPod directly through the auxillary imput. Forget about buying anything else and get this system, that is, unless you have the money to build a system, piece by piece. However, for the price, this isn't a sticking point.
I use these speakers as my livingroom surround sound, hooked up to a Samsung 46-inch 550 model and PS3 for Blu-ray, DVD, and mp3. These speakers more than fill up a room that is 350+ square feet when watching a movie. I mean, this blows away competing systems at 2 times the price and 5.1 through optical hookup still sounds pretty darn good. Use the money you save for a good blu-ray player, like a ps3
Pros: Digital Dolby, DTS, THX certified, sounds great on HBO HD and all the channels that support Digital Dolby, i'm using an optical cable, with the cox box & PS3 as well as the Power Mac G5, aux for the iPodCons: not any really wish the cable for the speakers were longer
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