Center Speaker problem

Alright I got a Audigy 2 ZS card and Inspire T5400 5.1 speakers. Somehow my center speaker doesn't work, and it didn't even pass the test either. But when I unplug and replug it I can hear it do the scratchy sound. Anyone know what my problem is?

I have a similar problem to the above message. I have SB Live! LS sound card, and a Creative 5.1 speaker set (not sure which one). When I test the 5.1 surround speakers with Creative AudioHQ, I hear the test voice say, "Center speaker." But, in all other applications I hear nothing out of the center speaker. Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, EAX enabled games, none of them put sound out the center speaker. Please help.

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Hi, I have T5900 speakers on a soundblaster live! 5.1 soundcard (build .4). I don't get music playing out of my center speaker. I only hear sound effects in games etc, and the speaker works using the tests. I have read other threads, and so know that the problem can normally be solved using CMSS (because the music isn't coded for 5.1). The creative website says that the live! 5.1 has the capability, but DOESN'T tell you how to turn it on, and I cant for the life of me find the option in EAX or anywhere else in the creative software. I have used the site automatic update to check I have the latest software and drivers, so that's not the problem. (It tells me there is nothing I need to update)
But CMSS doesn't seem to be an ideal answer to it, as people get distortion in the rear speakers etc, so any solution is welcome.
And YES I have made sure it is all plugged in correctly.
And YES I have made sure that the computer is set up for 5.1 speakers in the windows "sounds and audio options" in control pannel, and in the creative soundblaster software.
Also friends of mine have this problem using the Audigy 2 ZS soundcard and 5.1 speakers, but that looks fixable with CMSS, my main problem is my soundcard is a live! 5.1.
Thanks in advance for any help.

one place i know the cmss button is located is in the advanced tab of the mini view of creative media source. no its eax which will give you "distorsion" in the rear speakers its technical names include "delay" and "reverb" cmss just emulates the channels not accounted for.good luck

Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700 center speaker problem

I have a SB Audigy sound card, here is my problem when i run the speaker test they all work and when i put effect on CMSS Movie or CMSS Music all the speakers work but when i put in Fourpoint 5. Din and run lets say EAX Goldmine, lisen to music or play a game i dont get sound from the Center speaker. All the other work just fine and sound come from the right direction exept if there is sound in front of me i cant hear it, any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
JL

Jlt_230
The Fourpoint/5. DIN mode acts as a bypass mode for discrete multichannel Digital DIN and 4 channel Analog signals from various sources and passes these signals direct to each speaker output. Therefore when playing back non Dolby Digital 5. (AC3) signals such as Stereo, you will only get Stereo (Left & Right channel) signals without the center signal.
You should be able to get the center channel when you playback Dolby Digital 5. (AC3) sources.
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I've had the Megaworks 650 for about a year now. I use the DDTS decoder as well and have it hooked up to my TV and xbox. The problem is, for some reason the center speaker's volume is almost inaudible now. It's not the wire or the speaker itself, I've swapped them with other speakers and wires. It's almost as if there isn't enough power going to that center speaker or something. Has anyone else had this problem?

It is the front center speaker, sorry. There is no hissing noise, just very very soft sound that should be the center speaker. I think it might be a problem with the amp, but I have no way of knowing if it is, or how to fix it.

Center speaker problems

Hi, I installed sound blaster live 5.1 to my computer yesterday and hooked up the altec lansing surround sound 5.1. The speaker test passed on all of the speakers but the center speaker does not play music even though it passed the test. What is the problem? Please help. Thank you, Larry

I purchased my Creative 5.1 Inspire 5200 speaker system alongwith SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card about a week ago.
However, due to some reason, I have not been able to obtain any sound from the Center Satellite Speaker while playing music. The speaker works fine in the speaker test but does not produce any sound while playing music. I have looked around for any concerned options but haven't located any that might solve the problem.
So I guess my problem is pretty much the same as lkma9's. Let's hope some smaritan drops by to solve our miseries

Creative Inspire T5400 Center Speaker Problem

Hey Creative,
I use the Audigy Platimum Sound Card with Audigy drive with Inspire T5400 speakers. Ever since i got the speakers I have noticed either the center speaker plays so quiet its almost not hearable or it doesn't play at all. This happens for music alot. I checked all the hookups and I got the AudioHQ and Windows set for 5.1 surround speakers. What is the problem?
Thanx
Adam

Adamb10,
You will need to enable CMSS though Playcenter for the Audigy. Launch playcenter and put it in player mode (not jukebox mode) on the right hand side there is a button that expands out the player to display a number pad. At the bottom of the numbers there is a button marked CMSS, set it to on or movie mode and it should give you what you want.
Jeremy

Inspire 5200 Center Speaker problem !!

I use onboard Nforce2 MCP-T sound card. My speaker is Creative 5.1 5200. My center speaker doesnt work when i play MP3 or games. But in speaker test, it works fine.
How can i fix this?

Problem Fixed by:
1. Click Start->Run
2. Type in regedit and press enter
3. click Edit | | \/ Find 3. Type in createcenter , make sure all the boxes are ticked, and press enter. 4. For every key that it finds, double click the value and change it to .
5. click Edit | | \/ Find Next (F3)
6. Rinse. Repeat.
7. When it says "Finished searching document", reboot.
8. Enjoy your center channel
9. You're welcome.
Resource: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/sat-...-vp507550.html

Audigy 2 with THX550 set, Sound Problems, Rear and Center Speak

Hi there !
Got a problem, everything worked fine before.
Same p.c. just an old and tired Windows 2000 Prof installation, moved to a new house, same computer, reinstalled everything with Windows XP Professional, and now.. my center speaker barely makes sound, my rear speakers.. the same. front 2 speakers blast with sound.
Changed the wiring, no effect.
Changed the settings, no effect.
Changed all the software, no effect.
I am lost for solutions.. does anyone know what is going on ?
The only thing i can come up with is that the volume for the center speaker and 2 rear speakers is not set right.. however in the software everything is set correctly.. even full power to the rear speakers wont increase their volume.
It also seems that the sound for the rear speakers is actually also coming from the front speakers.. real strange..
Anyone? PLZ!!!
Greetz,
MeMpHiSMessage Edited by MeMpHiSGT on 09-03-2006 :09 AM

@MrClueLess
The settings are synchronised, everything is set right. I cant find anything wrong with it, using the latest version of drivers, software etc. I have no other sound sources connected on my pc other the my webcam.
a complete new fresh install of everything when i moved in where i am living now.
Only things different from previous setup is that a Hauppage TV card was removed, added a Logitech webcam with Microphone.
Already disconnected the webcam, no effect
Its really bugging me because this setup from the creative stuff makes good sound, now suddenly i cant even watch a dvd anymore, simply because i cant hear the people talk.. the center speaker just wont increase its volume (like the rear ones).

Side, back, and center speaker on inspire p7800 not working, PLEASE HELP!

I have had the inspire p7800 speakers for awhile, and they worked great, the sound was really great. Then a little while ago, the side, back, and center speaker stopped working. If i turn the volume up, i can hear a kind of static noise in them, but when i play a game or listen to music they don't do anything. i have an Audigy 2 zs sound card, and i just installed all the creative mediasource software. I was using the speakers fine without the software, but i read on a different post, that you can turn on cmss in the EAX control panel. i installed all the stuff, but i can't find the EAX console anywhere on my computer. all the mediasource is is a music player, and a file converter. The speakers stopped working about a week before this, and i unplugged everything and repluged it. After that the center speaker didn't work, but the others did. but now only the front left, and front right speakers work. Please help me with this problem.
Message Edited by Will99 on 10-19-2005 12:42 AM

Warran wrote:
I just got the speaker system in today and was trying to set it up, I plugged all the wires in all the right places and the system would not power up. I saw the light for the wired remote flash just once. I thought it was? a power malfunction so I got a different power cord and tried it out, but still nothing...could somebody please help me. Thanks in advance.
If it doesn't power up then it's either the subwoofer or power adaptor that's faulty. So the only thing you can do is contact customer support or the vendor.

X-FI ExtremeMusic Center-Speaker Prob

Hi, I've got Problem with my Creative X-FI ExtremeMusic Soundcard.
I have a 5. Sound-System but it won't recognize my Center-Speaker for some reason.
The Configures are set to 5. in the Creative Sound Options as well as in the Windows Audio Options. Reinstalling the Drivers a few times hasn't worked either.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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can anyone please help, for some unknown reason my center speaker is playing through my sub woofer,? i have a soundblaster li've 24bit external, with a logitech 5. surround system. every thing else works, except center speaker playing through sub, i don't understand how this could be. any info would be great. thanks, Rick

I've dabbled around, and increased the default volume for centre speaker to around 80%. This seemed to have fixed the problem. I must admit, this is rather embarassing. lol.
But is this really the source of the low volume? Or is my increament of volume from default a compensation of it's
Thanks
edit: i used Creative Mixer to do itMessage Edited by kimhu on 03-04-200604:36 PM

No sound from my center speak

Hello,?I have a sound blaster audigy 2 card and 5. logitech THX speakers. I can not get any sound out of my center speaker. I used ot have a diagnostic program that tested my speakers and would let me reset them if I encountered a problem. I can no longer find that diagnostic problem. If anyone can help me by either knowing how to get sound back or how to get that diagnostic tool back I would be greatly appreciati've. Thank you for your help and your time.

What?kind of speaker system are you using if I may ask? I believe the card has only 3 holes to connect speakers to and line-in?where your surround set might have more. If you've got a Creative Inspiron set or something similar you might want to check if the cables which go into the central unit, the subwoofer in most cases, are connected properly?too. Greetings,
M

No center speaker sou

I have a Sound Blaster Li've! 5. sound card and just recently bought some Inspire P5800 speakers, I had alot of trouble getting them to work at first (problems in AudioHQ) but eventually I got those sorted out. Now all the speakers work but the center one. When the speakers weren't working I could unplug the rear speaker cord and get sound from the center speaker as if it were one of the front speakers, so I know it's not a problem with the speaker itself. Since I fixed that I haven't been able to hear a thing out of the center speaker, but I know it's working because when nothing is playing it makes the same very light hissing noise that the other speakers make. I've tried everything I know to do and still no luck. Also, it makes no sound in a Speaker Test. I have looked through the forums and not been able to find anything about this kind of problem, and if there was something I didn't see it. Is there anyone that can help me?

I have a similar problem. Config:
- Alienware P4 .3Ghz
- 52 MB RAM
- 80 GB X 2 (C & D)
- SB Li've Platinum with Midland 5. speakers
- Plexwriter 2/0/32A
- DVD -R/+R burner
- ATI 9800 All-in-wonder card with 28MB of memory (plugged into line-in)
- XP Home SP2 (upgraded from WIN ME)
- Directx 9.0b
- Current drivers for above.
I only get sound out of the center speaker, or more often than not, the right front speacker. When I run the test on the AudioHQ and the center speaker is the only working speaker:
Test FL - No sound
Test C - No sound
Test FR - No sound
Test RL - "Rear Left" comes out of the FR speaker
Test RR - "Rear Right" comes out of the FL speaker
When only the FR speaker is working I get:
Test FL - No sound
Test C - No sound
Test FR - No sound
Test RL - "Rear Left" comes out of the FR speaker
Test RR - No sound
I have a Midland 5. speaker system with a controller that sets the 5. balance, analog/digital and Prologic. This device could be the one that is causing the problem, but I don't know how to circumvent the controller to see if I can isolate the problem.
If I play around with AudioHQ (i.e. switching modes back and forth) I can get all the speakers to work. This problem seems to be random. I do reboot and that only works part of the time.
I just loaded the KX drivers I saw mentioned elsewhere. They are very nice. Really makes the card perform. But same problem popped up this morning. A reboot fixed it.
I tried running the TV and got sound on the front speakers, but not the rear. Switched back to Rhapsody and now get it on all speakers, but not the subwoofer. I was thinking maybe the ATI drivers were messing things up, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I just seems to happen after the computer has been on for awhile.
Any suggestions?Message Edited by playbak on 02-7-2005 07:38 PM

X-Fi Titanium: Almost no sound from center speaker in 5.1 mode (optical out)

Hi everybody,
I have searched the forum, but not found any post regarding this problem, so I'm gonna post myself.
First of all: I have an X-Fi Titanium that is connected to my Home Theatre Dolby Digital/DTS Decoder via optical cable, so I use the DTS Li've encoding feature of my X-Fi to get 5. surround sound.
But from the beginning I've had the following problem: When I start a game, the sound is perfectly normal, but suddenly (not at a specific action, just out of nowhere) the sound from my center speaker is almost inaudible, extremely dull. So I can still hear, for example, the explosions or voices that come from the sides or the back, but everything that is right in front of me or is played back only through the center is almost silent.
When I quit the game, start the THX-Console and click on each speaker, all of them except the center speaker play back the test sound (like "front left", "front right" or whatever it is in the English version, I have the German version).
Switching to another mode (game, entertainment or the third, don't know what it's called in the English version), resetting the sound card via the control panel or clicking on "Standard" (or maybe "Default" in the English software?) does not bring back the sound on the center speaker, all I can do is switch to two-speaker- or headphones-mode so the center speaker is not used. Even rebooting windows does not work. I haven't figured out yet what exactly helps, but usually after a while suddenly the center works again.
The only reliable solution is to reinstall the whole software and driver, but with the slow Creative servers, it always takes hours to download all updates with Auto-Update, and installing everything with each single file for each little software module isn't much faster either.
I must say that I am very disappointed by Creative. Before my X-Fi Titanium I had an X-Fi Platinum, and the drivers really sucked. I hoped that this was because at that time, the X-Fi series was still quite new. But almost nothing has really improved since then. I would like to have ONE installation routine for the whole software package, with checkboxes to choose what I want to install, and not only when using the original CD, but also with the update files for download. And, most of all, I want the driver to just work! Since the beginning, I've only had problems with these cards.
Anyway, I hope someone can help me on this. Thanks a lot in advance.

I think I see what is happening now.
When using the analog outputs (5.), you have to enable bass redirection, and set the front or back speakers to small in the "Bass Management" screen of the THX control panel.
Bass redirection does not send anything to the subwoofer if the front and back speakers are all set to large. There should be a bypass switch for this, so the bass can be sent to full size satellites and the subwoofer.
When using the spdif DDL output, my receiver would decode and send bass to the subwoofer on it's own.
Only buggy part I'm noticing now is that I lose all bass occasionally on boot, and must do an "Auto Detect..." in the "Speaker Configuration" screen of the THX control panel to get it back.

Audigy 2 ZS+LogitechZ5300 5.1 Center Speaker Whis

Hi, I am having trouble with my Center Speakers volume level -- it is a whisper compared to the front and rear speakers. I have updated my drivers completely and in the EAX speaker tuning the volume level slider for all speakers is "normal" (in the middle) while the center speaker is MAXED out. Maxed out yet the quietest.
I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling the newest creative drivers, switched PCI slots and disabled the onboard sound. The funny thing is that when I uninstall and reinstall the creative media player stuff - no matter what - the center speaker volume slider is MAXED out.
I switched out the center speakers plug from the subwoofer to another channel (rear/front left/right) and the volume is PERFECT. If I plug in any speaker to the center speaker port then that speaker will whisper.
I'm thinking somehow the config file for my speakers are not being deleted with each uninstall and the fubar file is messing everything up.
Help!!!! Half-life 2 is coming and I wanna game with 5. sound! Thanks.
Joseph Twu
Lamebrain/bort

Bortin,
When you run the speaker test in Creative Speaker Settings does the center output remain low? If this volume output is consistent regardless of the source then we should try a cleansweep and reinstall:
http://us.creative.com/support/kb/ar...asp?l=2&sid=72
If this results in the same problem then you will probably need to contact Technical Support to arrange a repair on the Sound Card. Their contact information is found here:
http://us.creative.com/support/custsup
Jeremy

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