Z-5500 and CMMS 3d Surround probl

Two days ago i bought Z-5500 5. Speaker system and X-Fi Fatalty.
Yesterday everything worked fine but today when i went to thx setup console and started to test surround sound i found some big problems like i didn't hear anything from my right front speaker and stuff like that but i searched some old topics about that problem and surprise suprise there was some good information and it helped.
But soon as i started to listen some bass heavy music i instantly noticed that something is wrong my subwoofer didn't sound good as it sounded before (before this problem sub gave very big boom sound but now it only gave very distant and small boom sound..eh).
Then i started to investigate the problem but of course i didn't find any problem but i found one thing,when i turn off CMSS 3d Surround sound my subwoofer goes dead and i can't even hear that small boom sound anymore..i dont think this was the case yesterday when i was fooling with options and i turned CMSS off and on many times.
what could be the problem? is it x-fi? maybe subwoofer? or something else?
What should i do.Message Edited by MakeMonroe on 08-2-2006 09:45 AMMessage Edited by MakeMonroe on 08-2-2006 09:45 AM

It's the Fatalty, I switched from the X-fi Platinum to the Fatality and my bass is not what it used to be. I also have 5. and they are the 5300e and I have problems with one of the rear speakers not giving off any sound every now and then. So the only thing I could tell you is this, get a different brand name sound card. The X-fi series works for some people and not for others. Good luck because you will need it with this card and it will give you a headache you will never forget.

Similar Messages

Nokia 5500 and iTunes

I have a Nokia 5500 and have not been using the MP3 facility as did not have computer previously that accepted Nokia Music Manager software. We have now purchased an Apple iMac which of couse has iTunes as its music management software. I have used it to drag and drop a couple of songs onto my phone, but it is not recognising the artist or the album.
Do I need to load the Nokia software onto my Mac and use it instead or as well as the iTunes software?

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Apple has used in iTunes their own DRM technology called "Fairplay".
DRM is a way to encrypt the songs (music tracks) so that they can be only used on devices Apple controls or software Apple controls.
It is a way for doing copy protection (or protecting the rights of music labels).
If you have Apple DRM protected songs, then they will only play in iTunes, on an iPod or iPhone.
You can also "burn" a CD with iTunes, and then "rip" the songs back to your PC as unprotected MP3 files, for example.
Apple also sells nowadays DRM-free music, but I think the songs are more expensive and not all iTunes music is yet available without DRM.

Can an OS upgrade for Power Mac 5400, 5500, and 6500 be used for the 7200?

I have a Power PC 7200 with OS 7.5.1 and got an upgrade to 7.6.1 off ebay. The disc
is labeled 5400, 5500 and 6500 series. Can I use it on my 7200?

Looking at the initial sell date of the various models reveals the following:
7200 - Aug 95
5400 - Apr 96
5500 - Feb 97
6500 - Feb 97
Since the 3 models listed on the CD were released after the 7200, I would think that it probably would not work. But I would try to see if it works. You might get a message saying you can't install it on the 7200. What you might do is duplicate the System folder on the 7200. Then try to install. If the install doesn't work or corrupts the system files, you can trash the "updated" and then use the duplicated system folder.
 Cheers, Tom

Centre Speaker Problem with Z-5500 and X

When I have entertainment mode enabled (not sure if its the mode's problem or not) the centre speaker doesnt play alot of the music (I heard the voices are supposed to come from centre while ambience comes from the other speakers) most of the sound is coming from the other 4 speakers. Also, when the song gets real intense (or a word starting with "s" is said) the speaker starts to crackle and fizzle, and it makes me think the speaker is dieing or not able to handle that sound. However, when I enable game mode and play counterstrike or such, with the volume pretty high (about halfway for the Z-5500 is deafening) I can shoot and throw grenades and such but the centre channel (which plays alot more sound then when Im playing music) doesnt crackle or fizzle, it handles pretty much 80% of the sound) I especially hear the crackling/distortion or whatever it is when Im playing System of a Down's Chop Suey, when he says the line "self righteous suicide" it crackles and causes a fuzzy sound when he says it, and some other songs have parts of it when this happens. Just wondering why the X-Fi is causing this (i dont think its the modes problem cause I have the problem with game mode too) but it cant be the speaker as it works perfectly fine in game.

Hows it going mate. i have a very similar setup to you and have the same problem. the sound only comes out of the front and centre speakers. even the surround sound comes out of the fronts. this is because the vista drivers do not support dolby digital or dts. lol what a waste of money. there is no warnings about this when you purchase the card. i am appauled at this. It is false advertising.

Audigy 4 (Non Pro) and center channel surround sound - from 2 channel aud

Hi all,?Is there a way to have voice coming from the center speaker during TV programs like you could using an external receiver with Pro Logic? I can't for the life of me, get my Audigy 4 to do this. I run MCE 2005 on a couple of machines in the house. On my other machine, with built in audio, I let the Purevideo decoder handle this and I get? a nice surround, complete with center channel voice on it while watching TV. On the machine with the Audigy 4, not only will it not give me the center channel while watching TV, but I can't get it to stop processing the sound so that I can simply use the decoding of the Purevideo Decoder... Stumped!?Thanks,?Stu

Hi all,?Is there a way to have voice coming from the center speaker during TV programs like you could using an external receiver with Pro Logic? I can't for the life of me, get my Audigy 4 to do this. I run MCE 2005 on a couple of machines in the house. On my other machine, with built in audio, I let the Purevideo decoder handle this and I get? a nice surround, complete with center channel voice on it while watching TV. On the machine with the Audigy 4, not only will it not give me the center channel while watching TV, but I can't get it to stop processing the sound so that I can simply use the decoding of the Purevideo Decoder... Stumped!?Thanks,?Stu

ITunes, Mac Mini and 5.1 Surround - No Joy!

Greetings,
I'm having problems with getting 5.1 Surround Sound out of my Mac Mini with iTunes.
Here is my hardware setup:
Mac Mini (Mid 2010 model, has built in HDMI output, running OS X Lion 10.7.1 and latest iTunes version)
Pioneer VSX-1121-K Amplifier
Panasonic TV
I've got the Mac Mini connected to the Amp with HDMI, and I've also tried a digital audio cable to the amp.
I'm trying to play a movie (The "Art of Flight" by Travis Rice... GREAT movie!) that I purchased in HD from the iTunes store.
When I look at the "info" about the movie in iTunes, it states that it does have Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
When I play the movie in iTunes, with Controls -> Audio & Subtitles -> English (Stereo Audio) in plays fine.
When I change Controls -> Audio & Subtitles -> to English (Surround Audio), the movie freezes and will not play.
When I play the movie directly in Quicktime Player, I can't find any way to set the audio output options from within Quicktime player.
I've tried using both HDMI and Digital Audio out in the Sound Preferences Panel
I've tried using the Audio Midi Setup program in Utilities to configure both the Built-In output, and the HDMI output.
I've set both the Built-in Audio Output and the HDMI to "Encoded Audio".
In Audio Midi Setup, when I go into "Configure Speakers..." button, select "Multichannel", I see "Stereo" selected in the drop down box. But when I click on the drop down box, the options for "5.1 Surround", "7.1 Surround", etc are all greyed out.
No matter what I try, I get stereo output, instead of surround sound.
Help??

Well, a bit more experimentation and I have some additional thoughts.
I read the discussion https://discussions.apple.com/message/2530573#2530573 here.
I installed Perian, didn't seem to change anything.
I read the discussion http://geekwithfamily.com/2007/07/05/home-theater/howto-5-easy-steps-to-output-d olby-digital-from-quicktime-player/ here.
When I go into Audio Midi Setup it still says the output is Stereo only. BUT, when I play the movie in Quicktime now, I can hear sound coming out of my rear surround channels now. The receiver still indicates it only has stereo output enabled. But it does sound like I'm getting stereo output.
Still not clear why in iTunes they have the option for Controls -> Audio & Subtitles -> to English (Surround Audio), but when that is selected the movie won't play at all. Bug in iTunes, or elsewhere in the system? I don't know...

Movie Purchases and 5.1 Surround

Recently I've been noticing some movies (such as Casino Royale and the just released Australia) come with 5.1 Surround Sound. When these are downloaded through iTunes, will they play in Surround on a Machine (given a proper system of course) or is it only for use with AppleTV? Also, are these movies capable of being purchased only in Stereo?

Just purchased my first HD movie through iTunes with DD 5.1.
My home theater uses a Mac Mini w/ iTunes to view content. With optical audio, all necessary equipment, etc...
To my surprise, when selecting DD 5.1 in iTunes, there is no audio.
After digging around on these forums and other places online, I have learned that iTunes, Quicktime, your "computer", will not play 5.1. You will only get 5.1 on AppleTV.
This is a major oversight on Apples part that they need to fix. Send them a message through iTunes feedback and let them know.
They are advertising 5.1 on your "computer" which is completely untrue.

Navigation that works for a8-5500 and how to fix GPS signal

Found out that these navigation systems works fine with at 5500-f tablet:
Navigon.
Route 66.
Sygic.
iGO Primo.
If you now of others that works (TomTom, Navfree etc), please let us know
However, the A8 5500f and other tablets from lenovo seems to have a problem with the GPS fix. It takes forever to acuire a decent signal. There is a soloution to this problem:
A) Have WI-FI ON, if possible.
B) Launch the navigation, eg Route 66.
C) After some seconds, turn off WI-FI.
D): Ready!
This procedure will allow the navigation to download the assisted GFS. But it seems like the WI-FI, when ON, is making it difficult to reciewe a clear gps signal. If no WI-FI, it will take a minute or so to reciewe a clear GPS signal without A-GPS.
There is also a third solution. Download a app that is keeping GPS alive all the time. Like ActiveGPS - GPS booster or so. This will allow you to keep WI-FI ON all the time. How much batteri that will eat up, i dont know.

Hi,
When you stram from a bin file repeatedly, it will run first time but will lose lock because when it comes tothe beginning of the file, its time suddenly jumps and the receiver does not accept this. For example, lets say your bin file is from GPS time t1=0 to GPS time t2=30000s. When you loop back around the file, the time increases from 0 to 30000 and then jumps back to 0 and that is not acceptable by receiver. You will need a direct streaming from 5671.
I can put that up for you soon if you want.
Regards,
Sastry
Sastry Vadlamani
RF and Communications Software R&D
National Instruments

TIP: Apple TV and 5.1 surround...

don't know if this is old news but you CAN get 5.1 surround out of an AppleTV..
just encode the 5.1 surround (DTS or Dolby) into Dolby ProLogic II (can use Handbrake to achieve this) and use the analog audio outputs to your receiver. Prologic will carry the 5.1 surround signal and the analog 2 channel signal and your receiver will decode it into 5.1 surround. if it can decode Doble ProLogic II (most with Dolby Digital can... almost all will be able to do this) I just tested this today and it works
also AAC file format does support up to 7.1 surround an the AppleTV does support AAC surround and will happily ship it off to your receiver but your receiver doesn't know how to decode it... couldn't find even one receiver that can decode AAC 5.1, 7.1 etc.
so it would be nice if AppleTV supported Dolby Digital and DTS but you can get around that limitation but using Dolby Prologic II.

OK, I'm looking for a definitive answer to the AppleTV 5.1 question. I don't want simulated PLII surround sound. I'm talking about Handbrake (latest version) ripping my own copy of a DVD with it's 5.1 DD or DTS mix, and playing it from AppleTV (latest firmware) via HDMI through my home theater receiver to my 5.1 speaker system.
Now, when I play a DVD, my receiver detects Dolby Digital and automatically sets the correct listening mode. When I play a ripped movie from AppleTV, I get a PLII setting, which is wrong. I've carefully ripped my DVD's using the 5.1 mix and a 6-channel discrete setting. When I "inspect" these files in Quicktime, it clearly identifies the audio as discrete 6-channel. So why isn't AppleTV outputting the signal correctly, if I've selected Dolby Digital in the settings menu?
Message was edited by: speck2001

ITMS and 5.1 surround

Hello,
I cannot find any information about songs from iTMS if whether or not they are recorded for 5.1 Surround Sound. Can anyone enlighten me?
Thank You.

well, imho the audio midi setup interface should win an award for "most unintuitive dialog box design" since, after reading your reply, i finally found the "properties for" list box. i say that because the entire window is laid out, logically, with "inputs" on the left (including clock source) and outputs on the right (including the speakers). the reason for placing the "properties for" list on the left, and in the middle of everything else vertically, is beyond me.
moving on, with my mini-toslink inserted, the only option in "source" is "digital out". in the "format" list box i have options for 2-channel output with several bit-depths as well as an "encoded digital audio" option. when i select that and go into "configure speakers", the only available option in "multichannel" is "stereo". all the other surround options are grayed-out.
i'm only trying to figure this out in order to get 5.1 output in front row and quicktime. however, this is starting to get really unnecessarily complex (considering that, in vlc, i can just choose audio > audio device > encoded audio).
still, out of curiosity, any ideas why the multichannel options are not available?
thanks again.

WLC 5500 and ISE

Hello,
I am going to deploy Cisco ISE with WLC 5500. I have two kinds of users one for which I want to deploy just open access Wi-Fi network, without working with Cisco ISE and Second group of Users for which I want to deploy Cisco ISE services like advanced authentication, posture and profiling. For both users I have just one WLC. Is there any problem to just deploy two SSID one for open access (without Cisco ISE) and second Secure with Cisco ISE ?

Thank you for helping.
I have read your proposed document, but didn't understand details beside SNMP probes.
The reason I don't want to enable ISE authentication/profiling and posture for guest is that I don't have enough licenses for all guests. I am planning to create separate SSID for guest which will have just open “authentication” without any key or ISE. In this case why ISE will profile guest users, it even doesn’t be associated with this WLAN profile?

Imac and 5.1 surround

hi all
i've hooked up my 20" intel imac to a surround amp with a mini-toslink cable, however i can't seem to get any audio out of the mac except the left and right channels.
i've got a quicktime file encoded in ac3. in its audio settings i have 6 channels which i can route to any output (left, right, center, lfe etc). but nothing arrives at the amp (which recognizes the digital in signal as "linear pcm l-r-sw", except that even the sub doesn't sound).
a trip to audio midi setup reveals that i can only select "built-in output" which is not configurable (gray letters say "output is not supported"). i'm using the imac's internal output. what's going on here?
thanks for any help.

well, imho the audio midi setup interface should win an award for "most unintuitive dialog box design" since, after reading your reply, i finally found the "properties for" list box. i say that because the entire window is laid out, logically, with "inputs" on the left (including clock source) and outputs on the right (including the speakers). the reason for placing the "properties for" list on the left, and in the middle of everything else vertically, is beyond me.
moving on, with my mini-toslink inserted, the only option in "source" is "digital out". in the "format" list box i have options for 2-channel output with several bit-depths as well as an "encoded digital audio" option. when i select that and go into "configure speakers", the only available option in "multichannel" is "stereo". all the other surround options are grayed-out.
i'm only trying to figure this out in order to get 5.1 output in front row and quicktime. however, this is starting to get really unnecessarily complex (considering that, in vlc, i can just choose audio > audio device > encoded audio).
still, out of curiosity, any ideas why the multichannel options are not available?
thanks again.

ITunes and 5.1 surround sound problem

The iTunes won't play my music in 5.1 surround sound. Now my PC is equiped with sound card capable of producing 5.1 surround sound and my windows media player is playing my music files in full surround sound. iTunes on the other hand won't do it for some reason.
All my sound and audio options in control panel are on 5.1 surround sound so i don't know what's going on with my iTunes...also all other programs play my audio and video files in full surround sound.
How do i get the iTunes to play my music in 5.1 surround sound?

If the files are just standard stereo MP3 files, iTunes is only going to play them to two speakers. Windows Media Player may do some kind of procesessing of the stereo signal to simulate surround sound and play to 5.1 speakers, but iTunes does not do that.
iTunes will play true DTS 5.1 channel audio files under certain conditions, but those are special files, not just standard MP3s.

5500 and itunes

Hi. Can anyone tell me how to get music from my itunes library on to my 5500 Sport. I've tried bluetooth to no avail, and I've tried sending files to a memory card via a card reader, and that won't work either. I get a message saying "card reader cannot be modified".
I have the phone synced to the mac using a plugin, and everything works fine there.
Any help appreciated. Thanks

Thanks Deggie, I have set the preference for my playlist, but my Nano is "over capacity" and does not synch, so I need to find a way to delete the songs already in the Nano to clear the space.

5500 and Quickoffice viewer

Could 5500 install free Quickoffice viewer?
Where to download this software as I couldn't find it in Nokia website for 5500?

Someone posted his bad experience in installing QuickOffice in 5500 unsuccessfully in another forum.
I just want to know if everyone got this experience and installed Quickoffice successfully.

Z-5500 and CMMS 3d Surround probl

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for