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I have had my z5500s for about 7 months now and I still love them.

However, from the moment I got them I thought the volume was lacking in the first 50% of the pod's volume control. I find that I often have the z5500 volume set to 40-50%. I have my windows volume control set to 65% for both master control and wave control and my iTunes volume set to about 85%.

The way people describe these speakers I would think that having the volume control on the pod set to 50% would blow my eardrums.

z5500 owners, what volume level do you have the z5500's pod set to for normal everyday listening?
 
Everyone is built differently. If it doesn't achieve close to the max SPL levels published, then you might have a defective product, or just a large room. The levels are measured at 1m, like all audio products.

In AVSforum there is a guy and his wife who keep blowing the HT speakers they have, and then run their floorstanders with 1000W mono amps, and STILL clip the amps and blow the speakers. They talk as if 120db SPL at 15 feet is nothing to them. That's called a hearing deficiency.

Most computer users I know of set their master control volume to 100%. The voltage gain from a soundcard is a much better place to amplify your signal than force an amp to pump in raw watts to achieve the same goal.
 
Originally I had my windows volume controls up to 100% but I kept getting clipping and popping. I was told that I should only have them up to 60-70%.

Is this not true?
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
personally i leave my klipsch at 75%, and control volume using my multimedia kb's volume control buttons.
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You leave the speaker controls at 75%?

EDIT: Figured out what kb stood for. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Everyone is built differently. If it doesn't achieve close to the max SPL levels published, then you might have a defective product, or just a large room. The levels are measured at 1m, like all audio products.

In AVSforum there is a guy and his wife who keep blowing the HT speakers they have, and then run their floorstanders with 1000W mono amps, and STILL clip the amps and blow the speakers. They talk as if 120db SPL at 15 feet is nothing to them. That's called a hearing deficiency.

Most computer users I know of set their master control volume to 100%. The voltage gain from a soundcard is a much better place to amplify your signal than force an amp to pump in raw watts to achieve the same goal.
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Can you break this down to newbology for me?

Are you saying it is better to turn the volume up higher using my windows volume control than using the volume controls on the speaker?
 
oh, just a keyboard with decent controls for volume and such. i use an ergo microsoft multimedia keyboard. found online in oem form for about 25bucks. has big volume controls and works in games and everything. some old or cheesy kb's have tiny or badly designed controls that are so similar you have to be too careful when using em. my older ms kb had that problem.. all were tiny blue circle buttons without printed labels.. a row of round buttons just asking u to hit the wrong one😛 bad design
 
Originally posted by: binister
Originally I had my windows volume controls up to 100% but I kept getting clipping and popping. I was told that I should only have them up to 60-70%.

Is this not true?
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as far as i know the wav out can be maxed without his/pop since its digital. just don't max out the master volume, and mute noisy line in or other inputs you don't need
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: binister
Originally I had my windows volume controls up to 100% but I kept getting clipping and popping. I was told that I should only have them up to 60-70%.

Is this not true?
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as far as i know the wav out can be maxed without his/pop since its digital. just don't max out the master volume, and mute noisy line in or other inputs you don't need
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Ahh, forgot to mention. I am connecting the z5500s to my Audigy using the 3 analog line outs (for 5.1). I am not using the optical inputs on the z5500s. So all of the sounds/music are being sent to the z5500s over an analog connection.
 
mines all analog too. probably doesn't matter all that much now with todays high end soundcards. but it used to. raising the master volume too high would introduce noise/distortion..but that was long ago.
 
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