Z-5500 Surround speaker problem

Not sure of the warranty on these speakers - but if I could fix the problem myself I would prefer not going a week or whatever without them that repairs require. There are two side ports on the main interface: one for headphones, one for another speaker system (basically a headphone output that doesn't turn off the speakers). I use the latter a lot to sync the speaker system with the one in the other room, but this port has mysteriously stopped working (incurred no damage). Any ideas for repair, anyone else have this problem? Thanks for your help.

I have the z-5500 And im not having any problems what so ever. So not sure why you having that problem. Id call up Creative regarding the issue.

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Have you checked to make sure that the wire is connected to the receiver? Are there any breaks in the speaker wired that goes from the receiver to the speaker? One thing you can do to check is take a double A battery and connect it to the speaker wire by the receiver, you should here the speaker clicking. If you do the speaker wire is fine and you did not have it connected properly into the receiver. If you don't there is a break or cut in the wire at some point and I would rerun that wire or a different one.

XP x64, all surround speaker signals going to front speakers

Wanted to document an issue I found while trying to use my audigy 4 card with XP x64. Yes, I know you are probably looking at my spec at the bottom and asking why use XP x64. Or why after spending so much money on the pc, could you not afford a better sound card? Or why not use the on-board audio?
Well I am awaiting to upgrade the sound card until a few more HDMI enabled cards come to the marked this year. Also I wanted to play some older games that support eax (which my on-board audio does not support fully) and did not want to go through setting up the emulation stuff in Vista.
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Odd I thought since vista, I am using on my another hard disk (I just select which HDD I want to boot from at boot), using the same driver version, the sound works perfectly (so not a hardware or cabling issue).
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SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_8_000.exe
SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_006.exe
SBAX_PCDRVBETA_US_2_8_000.exe
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Then just for a laugh after hearing about old resolved issues with the drivers on systems with more than 4 Gb's of Ram, I removed some of my memory. And low and behold when only one? of the 3 channels of 2 Gb of memory is installed then it all works, full surround is back. But with 2 channels for a total of 4 Gb or 3 channels for a total of 6Gb of ram, I get this problem of only getting sound from the front two speakers.
When I get the time I will try installing XP x32 to see if it not being able to all of my memory will help. Will post if it makes any difference.
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DFI Lanparty UT X58 (on-board audio disabled in bios)
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Message Edited by ph0b0s23 on 0-29-2009 0:5 [email protected]

@Re: XP x64, all surround speaker signals going to front speakers& Same hell to me with my old Audigy 2 Value. Rear was redirected to front, and center was upmixed with front, all in 5. nati've mode. Stereo surround worked well although. In my old mobo, Asrock Dual Sata 2 had an option to disable the 4Gb ram detection. Although I had 3Gb, with this option disabled I only accessed 2,8 Gb, no big deal. I survi'ved. But with my new Asus M3A32-MVP there was no option to disable 4Gb detection, and for that, the issue is always present in XP x64.
It's driver compatibility with XP x64. That's all. Audigy driver can't handle it in XP x64. In Vista/7 is fixed, but not in Windows XP x64 Edition. I tried the same steps that you did, with the same results. XP 32 bit worked well, because it also didn't recognize the full RAM.
The funny thing is I contacted CL tech support and they said all worked well for them. Furthermore EAX effects doesn't wok either (check F.E.A.R. for example).
Sorry, CL tech support HAS TO fix this. I don't know why they have forgotten XP x64 users.

Ipod 4th gen volume buttons not working. Volume bar not showing in music or video apps, not a speaker problem as this works fine when testing built in alarm tones???

Ipod 4th gen volume buttons not working. Volume bar not showing in music or video apps, not a speaker problem as this works fine when testing built in alarm tones???

Have you tried the standard fixes:
- Reset:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore the iPod from backup via iTunes
- Restore the iPod to factory defaults/new iPod.
If still problem you likely have a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genus Bar of an Apple store is in order.

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i've played the AC3 files on the cdrom and Dolby pro logic surround, I get sound from all fi've speakers on my Denon D-850 w/ Dolby surround pro-logic
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I've uninstalled all SB Li've software and drivers from the unipack, and reinstalled the orignal drivers and apps from the CD-ROM SBP5-CDSD-W-US MID : 32680 5-Sep-2000 and the Li've!Surround speaker setting reappears in the Surround Mixer.
Is the Li've!Surround setting no longer available in the new Surround Mixer in Li'veDrvUni-Pack (English) SBLW-XPWEB-W4-US 28-Feb-03 ?
Message Edited by klin on <SPAN class=date_text>2-2-2004 <SPAN class=time_text>06:4 AM
Message Edited by klin on 2-2-2004 2:45 PM

so I found this post...
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...7?dmode=source
it seems Li've Surround is no longer supported in the new drivers
....so what would be the best setting to play ac3 files or DVD's through my receiver with only 2 analog inputs (left and right) available w/ Dolby surround prologic. Should I set it to 2 speaker or 4 speaker setting in the Surround Mixer in order to send the best signal to the prologic decoder on my receiver with 5 speakers (2 front, center, 2 rear)

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Hi, i have 4 speakers and a subwoofer. Mainboard is asrock xtreme4 which come with realtek hd audio.
You may know the famous "rear speaker problem" on windows products. While speaker test just works fine, rear speaker never works on media player, winamp etc...
But recently it become really interesting because, that rear speakers works fine on firefox browser 22.0. So it gave me hope the solve this problem once and for all.
Right now, when i listening any thing on firefox, rear speakers works fine. But not working on Chrome and other stuff.
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hey have you tryed connecting other speakers to the bad connected one and see if it was not a bad channel? if so then let me know and I will look in to this problem more and try my best to get you the answers your looking for ok

Solved my scratchy speaker problem. Do a hard reset. Home,sleep button. Hold till screen goes blank.

Had a scratchy speaker problem and strange sounds when ipad shutdown. Hold the home button and sleep button till screen goes blank. Turn on after a minute or two. Fixed it on ipad 4. Good luck.

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Nokia N93 Speaker Problem Please help!

Hello guys, i have bought a n93 because my Qtek 8300 was damaged severly, alright so i get the n93 and i cant use it becuase of a big problem. When i make calls on the recieivng side of when ppl c all there is a flickering noise (the speaker where ppl talk to you) or when i record video the noise happens again. Im so fraustraited becuase i cant use it to make calls only on the headset, so im sure this is speaker problem right? Someone please help me and tlel me what i can do.

29-Mar-2008 09:06 PM
bigboy_245 wrote:
Hello guys, i have bought a n93 because my Qtek 8300 was damaged severly, alright so i get the n93 and i cant use it becuase of a big problem. When i make calls on the recieivng side of when ppl c all there is a flickering noise (the speaker where ppl talk to you) or when i record video the noise happens again. Im so fraustraited becuase i cant use it to make calls only on the headset, so im sure this is speaker problem right? Someone please help me and tlel me what i can do.
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I have an iPhone 4S. I have been having speaker problems for a while now and am slowly realizing when using and doing certain things that my sound is not working. When I take a video my sound does not work, when I facetime with someone they can't hear me but I can hear them. When I try and put someone on speaker phone they can't hear me. I can listen to music and listen to videos from facebook, youtube, etc. So my question is what could be causing this because I have sound otherwise, I can hear text message sounds, facebook notifications, etc. Help is appreicated. Thanks.

Hi serena36,
This sounds more like a microphone issue that a problem with your speaker. I would suggest using the steps in this article to troubleshoot -
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5183
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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Brett L

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It sounds like you need to turn VoiceOver off, see this Apple doc -> iPhone: Configuring accessibility features (including VoiceOver and Zoom)

I got speaker problem on iPad 2 once after I upgraded to iOS 7.3. Any idea? Please help

I got speaker problem once I upgraded my iPad into iOS 7.0.3. Any idea? Please help.

Go into the settings and reset all settings. See if that helps.

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.

Z-5500 speaker problem.

. Ok first of all i have Creative Z-5500 speakers and i also have the creative fatalty sound card, i checked all the cabes to the speakers and they are connect right... for some reason when i play any music i only hear it from the rear speakers... all of the 3 front ones are totally dead... i unistalled and re-installed the driver for the sound card and same thing... its set on 5.... and im just running out of ideas why is that happening? Thx

Have you tried any of the following
Plug a different device into the speakers to test the front two
Plugged the front speakers into the rear speaker jacks to test if the speakers are actually physically damaged
Change the speaker settings in the Creative Audio Control Panel (or Creative Consolel Launcher if you prefer) and change to 2. instead of 5. and see of sound can be heard from the front L/R speakers.
Run creative diagnostic utility to check if there is a problem with your creative card. You should change your speaker configuration back to 5. before you run this.
Make sure that the 3 audio cables needed for 5. (Green/Orange/Black are the colors of my cables) are plugged in to the correct spots on both the card and your speakers. The manual that came with your creative card will show you which holes are for what cables. The color codes are: Green=Front, Orange=Center/Subwoofer, Black=Rear. The back of your z5500's already has those colors on the holes so no need to wonder there.
On your z5500's there is a switch on the back to the far right that switches between "Stereo -2" and "6ch direct". Make sure the switch is on Direct.
Also make sure the effect for the Direct input on your z5500's is set to 6-channel Direct.
These steps should help narrow down what could be causing your problem.

Speaker problems with Inspire 5.1 digital 5500

Hi can anybody help me, I have just connected my surrounded sound Inspire 5.1 5500 but the rear and the centre speakers are not working, the left and right are fine. When I did the test they all seemed OK, but now there is no sound from those three I mention. Can somebody please help.
Thank You
Sarah.

Thank you for the information.
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Audigy 2 ZS Platinum & Logitech Z-5500 Digtial Speake

Does anyone really know how to set up digital sound with this configuration?
I have found the cables for enabling digital sound. I went with a Monster Standard THX Certified Digital Coax RCA to RCA with an RCA to stereo miniplug. The system detects Coax and setups up accordingly. However, with my soundcard speaker setup, all sounds are produced from front speakers and I have tried every setting under control panel, Creative Volume Control Panel, and AudioHQ to get the speakers set up properly. Any assistance in resolving this would be appreciated. I purchased the Z-5500 speakers specifically for the great surround sound they can produce but am saddened that I cannot get it to work. Please advise.

khaught wrote:
PJC-
Have you read the digital connections sticky at the top of the board? Only DD/DTS will be in 5.. ?
Hmmm.... did I say I was illiterate?! Don't think so! Yes I have read just about every post I can. I have since determined that I am not alone with this problem. Why is it that some consumers experience no problems and the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves? Do I not have the right soundcard to take advantage of the superior sound? I think not. Rather than criticize, how about giving some constructi've solutions? If not, then bow out and keep your posts to yourself.
Message Edited by khaught on <SPAN class=date_text>04-30-2006 <SPAN class=time_text>06: PM
What are you talking about? Did I say you were illiterate - No, or perhaps you misread my post!
It was a simple question, not criticism! Some people miss that sticky.
You haven't said exactly what you are trying to do. You just mentioned you only get stereo using coax; in most circumstances that's normal. Since you aren't illiterate, you will have discovered that SPDIF connections only carry stereo PCM signals; so CMSS upmixing, the speaker test, games, EAX environmental effects and using the soundcard or DVD software to decode AC3 will not give you 5. over the coax connection. These are all uncompressed PCM sources and the coax cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry all the channels. If you are using the Z-5500 as the decoder and are having problems with Dolby/DTS passthrough, then does the Z-5500 display the Dolby Digital/DTS logo when you play a DVD? If not, then it's not receiving the raw data, and assuming you have disabled the soundcard's internal decoder, then either haven't enabled SPDIF output in the DVD software, or it has a bug. You may want to try a different DVD player to eliminate that possibility. AC3Filter ver 0.7b with WMP0 will work if you enable SPDIF in the AC3Filter options.

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