I did that jump from X-Fi XtremeMusic to Asus Xonar D2X, never regretted my decision.

Its either Asus Xonar or Auzentech Prelude for me.

No more creative sound card anymore.

Maybe can buy new control pod from factory gua, send an email to Logitech HQ ask 1st.

Yup, through a sound card, modding, use better speaker cable.

Yea totally agreed with you. I made that jump too no regret as well especially when its pair with z-5500D + Xonar D2X + foobar with ASIO = heaven

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Added on October 10, 2009, 10:02 pmIts not like tat . It depends on your house electrical output. My speaker is entering its 5th year already the fuse never blown before. Even its using old technology but if u compare to alot of speaker around its same price its still better

I also having the pod problem. The text is fading but still can see.

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 10 2009, 10:02 PM

Woo i'm also jumping from Xtrememusic to D2X. Can't wait for it to arrive.

Fuse blow is a good thing. It's not the speaker's fault. It's the voltage spike that caused it. Better than Creative S750, no fuse the whole board fried. >_> So far in 3 years (i think...) i've change the fuse... twice.

Yea those speakers without fuse if it blows the speaker blows

Damn. Asus Xonar D2X definitely sounds different and better compared to the X-Fi. I'm hearing sounds i've never heard before even in mp3s. Using 24bit 2ms ASIO and it's not even stuttering!

Yes asus make good cards with better SQ than creative. Creative, the money you pay goes into the features rather than SQ.

Welcome to my world. Try with foobar with some tweaks it sounds even amazing.

What tweaks are you using?

some ppl tweak and some dont depends ur taste. but you absolutely must try lossless.... best tweak ^^

ahem dun scold me when you cant stand mp3 anymore

This post has been edited by dlyz: Oct 15 2009, 02:26 PM

Yeah i do have some FLAC lying around. BT's This Binary Universe in 5.1 sounds awesomer than before.

Listening to Armin Van Buuren ASOT 2009 FLAC, totally blown away by the tight and solid bass, something rarely heard when describing Z5500 bass.

This post has been edited by Joseph Hahn: Oct 15 2009, 05:48 PM

Nah no matter how good it is try listening to 5.1 surround music or DTS music. Its very beautiful its like you are there

FLAC are only better compression.

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 15 2009, 10:55 PM

No the power to z5500 is not enought or unstable that why is blinking.

This post has been edited by OlgaC4: Oct 23 2009, 03:47 PM

Yo guys....
Just bought an used z5500 set. Just wondering izzit possible to convert spdif to optical output?? Erm... My soundcard is a very old soundblaster 5.1 live.

Can anyone tell me the name of the convertor?? Wanna get better quality hopefully from optical cable.

why optical and not coax??
what u need is 3.5mm monopole-to-rca..




This post has been edited by jerren: Oct 26 2009, 04:57 PM

Ok... I see whether can find this in pasar pudu or not. Dont know they understand what I want also or not.. lolz..

copy the photo into ur hp and show it to them..

is the quality the same as direct and converting?

im not sure as i doesnt tried passing thru the digital signal from a creative card to Z5500..
all i know is tht if u wanted to use the creative spdif, then u need this type of converter..

One more thing... I've got a weird problem.
I think I've connected it properly since my soundblaster got color-coded miniplug output. Just find n match.

The funny thing is everything is working except my center speaker.
I tried to test speakers utility in creative software (those left,right,center thingy) and it does work.
But when I played my mp3.... I dont get 5.1. I think its 4.1 onli. How come?

My current setting now is : Input Direct : 6channel surround. (Onli this one works fully when I run the test speakers location thingy).

What am I doing wrong here?