I recently purchased a new Z5500 system. Which I must say first of all it is da bomb! Really nice looking. Amazing Sound through the optical input coming from my xbox360. My wife is so impressed by it and the amazing clarity of the sound. I gotta say though it was a pain in the *** mounting the speakers on the wall :x But my main question, or questions actually, are the following:
I use an Audigy2 ZS card on my PC, which is located about <20ft away from the Z5500 system. The Z5500 came witht the 6-Channel Direct Audio, which my Audigy2 card has the outputs for. However, these cables are only like 3ft long. I need longer cables!! now I have noticed that these cables apparently look like your standard 3.5mm Stereo cable, however do they actually sell a set of 3 just like the one the z5500 came with, or am I gonna have to purchase 3 separate cables and run them. Also, even though they look like standard 3.5mm cable, they do have anything special, I mean, would using a standard 3.5mm cable lower my sound quality?
Last question I have is, does anyone sell somekind of splitter for the digital Optical input? What I mean with this, is that this z5500 system only has one Digital Optical Input. I have several devices that use this kind of input (Xbox360, Netgear's EVA8000 and DVR system), and I have been forced to having to unplug the cable and plug it to another source everytime I want to change devices. The only thing that's helping me a little is that my DVR also has the Digital Coaxial Output so I've been using that but I've been told that the Optical is better Quality. Any Ideas?
BTW, thanks for all and any help!
I use an Audigy2 ZS card on my PC, which is located about <20ft away from the Z5500 system. The Z5500 came witht the 6-Channel Direct Audio, which my Audigy2 card has the outputs for. However, these cables are only like 3ft long. I need longer cables!! now I have noticed that these cables apparently look like your standard 3.5mm Stereo cable, however do they actually sell a set of 3 just like the one the z5500 came with, or am I gonna have to purchase 3 separate cables and run them. Also, even though they look like standard 3.5mm cable, they do have anything special, I mean, would using a standard 3.5mm cable lower my sound quality?
Last question I have is, does anyone sell somekind of splitter for the digital Optical input? What I mean with this, is that this z5500 system only has one Digital Optical Input. I have several devices that use this kind of input (Xbox360, Netgear's EVA8000 and DVR system), and I have been forced to having to unplug the cable and plug it to another source everytime I want to change devices. The only thing that's helping me a little is that my DVR also has the Digital Coaxial Output so I've been using that but I've been told that the Optical is better Quality. Any Ideas?
BTW, thanks for all and any help!