Yes the PS2 sounds very good on them, as does my Xbox and my mac... You have to buy the digital cables though My only gripe about the speakers are the stands (which aren't as nice as the metal ones on my z560s) and the wires (which are integrated RCA plugs). However, the speakers sound great, and the bass is considerably tighter than it was on my z560s (same sub as on the z680s). I would recomend them to anyone!
No I mean the z560s use the same sub as the z680s. The new z5500s use a 10inch sub (the others used 8" subs). The z5500 sub is quite a bit tighter than the previous logitech systems, and sounds even marginally better than the Klipsch ultras... and yes I've had plenty of experience with both. I have the z5500s and my neighbor here in the dorms has the Promedias (which also sound amazing).
So I have an audigy 4 sound card set up with the logitech z-5500 which sound great by the way. So I'm messing around with the sound blaster settings and I discover that only the front side speakers are test able even though I get all speakers with movies and games. After messing around with it I decided to call logitech because the speakers didn't seem to work properly with the realtec onboard audio on my asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo either. So Logitech tells me that I have to turn off the digital encoding on my Audigy 4 as it conflicts with the onboard decoder! So basically, if you have a sound card and this set up your sound card becomes obsolete according to logitech. Didn't like that at all so I called soundblaster who pitched me on their speaker set up but I think I'm going with the klipch pro media 5.1 ultra instead. Anyway, so I learned how to disable the audigy 4 and the speakers still had the same problem with the test. Either way I'm hugely disappointed with logitech for not makeing it possible to disable the decoder and a little disappointed with tom's hardware for missing such an important detail. I just lost $100 in shipping costs. Anybody want to pick up my set-up in L.A.? Price is $210 (I paid $254+$50 in shipping) or you can pay for shipping everywhere else $50. I'll also throw in the digital coax cable for free (a $10 value). BTW, don't get me wrong here, I think it's a great deal for someone who doesn't already have a sound card and is using the onboard or for some one who is using it for their dvd player. Just don't want to lose out on already purchased audigy 4.
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