Best Speakers to go with audigy 2 ZS

Hi.i just bought a audigy 2 ZS 7.1 THX soundcard and i am now confused as to which speakers to get.

I am intrested in the Logitch z5500 5.1 digital or the creative gigaworks s750 7.1. both are THX approved. price is not as issue, but would it be worth buying 7.1 speakers if they arent digital, how much difference is there in the sound quality. also is it possible to conect the logitech speakers to the creative soundcard to give me digital sound?

thank you

2nd that... I have the ultras and I cant get enough of them!

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The Digital moniker most likely is related to the fact that the Z-5500 has its own external decoder. If you go digital you won't get surround sound in games unless you have a card capable of encoding descrete analog channels in real time to digital. Creative never implemented this because almost all gamers uses analog, powered computer speakers.

Using digital would be using the Z-5500s DACs instead of the Audigy 2ZSs (that's why it's called digital "pass-through"; its just bypassing the processing for later). While its up to you to do this with the ZS, there are cheaper 7.1 cards for this purpose ($20 Chaintech AV-710 with optical digital out comes to mind).

The ZS has a minijack digital out. Go to Radioshack for a minijack to RCA adaptor. The left, white (mono) channel would be the digital out in this case.

go with the z5500 i love them but make sur you have room for a huge Subwoofer.

This was the primary reason I went for a 3.1 setup with real loudspeakers in the end for my gaming/HTPC rig. The sound quality is just surreal compared to PC speakers. And I'm not talking about "I went from a Audigy 2 to an X-Fi--WOW!" or "Z-560 to Z-5500--WOW!"...I'm talking about speakers that are 400% more accurate than PC speakers (60-20KHz +/-1db...as opposed to your usual 80-20KHz +/-5db...)

You really have to go logitech...much better quality (unless your willing to pay tons of money) the logitech gets much better ratings...look at the RMS power not peak. also look at klipsh forums a lot of bad reviews.

I donno something about only have a single driver speakers puts me off to Logitech, for that price cant they at least make a decent 2-way sat??

im obviously, like i am with lcd's, ignorant to flaws of some products. i think the gigaworks are great. music sounds nice and clear and games sound great. how anyone cannot like these i don't know. how anyone can play games in anything other than 7.1 is another mystery to me.

they are the best multimedia speakers around i say.

I have the 2.1 Pro Media from Klipsch and with my XF-i it's the best sound I have ever heard from my systems. Both the speaker and sound card have worked well in producing outstanding, heart-pounding, crisps, clear and ground shaking sounds for my entertainment and games. I was actually planning to getting the 7.1 but I don't want lots of speakers around the room, so I got my 2.1 speaker instead. As for gaming, with CMSS turned on with bass and treble crank up, man, BF2 sounds really good. Wow. I can hear everything clearly. I'm pretty satisfied with the Klipsch 2.1 and I would definitely upgrade to 7.1 when the time comes.

I have the Logitech Z680's, I like em a lot. I am using the optical in from my X-Fi Fatality. I can't complain about these at all. I've had others such as Altec Lansing, Creative Labs that sound very well. I've sold the Klipsch as well, they are quite impressive. Lot of choices for great sound out there but for the $$ spent, I've been very happy.

on your desk should be fine. i mean't with surround sound setup. if you have 5.1 or 7.1 they don't sound as good on the floor. a 2.1 setup like yours will be fine.