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Logitech Z-680 Dolby 5.1 PC Speakers Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the woofers-and-tweeters dept.

PhatBass writes "PC Speakers certainly have come a long way from the little buzzers we used to listen to before the days of SoundBlaster. Remember the 'Windows Speaker Driver' that gave you more than beeps and buzzing through the little cone in your case? Well now we have full Dolby Surround Sound setups, THX Certified, the works, for Gaming, DVD and Multimedia bliss. Take a look at the sweet Z-680 setup from Logitech that is reviewed here, they sport 1000 Watts of Peak Power, a hardware Dolby Pro Logic II 5.1 Decoder, Digital Inputs and serious style."

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  1. Nice but... by natron+2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the price of most PC Surround sound speakers and cards you could buy a nice Surround Sound stereo system and run your PC audio through it, and it usually sounds alot better. I have seen it done mayof times and the sound quality is superb.

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  2. 1000 Watts? by hcdejong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When will speaker manufacturers stop quoting meaningless figures?

    • You can't add power figures for separate speakers.
    • 'peak power' is equal to 'pick any number that takes your fancy'. It has no bearing on reality.
    • RMS power figures don't mean much, either. You need to specify the distortion that occurs at this power level.
    • power figures say nothing about how loud the system is. You need the speaker efficiency for that.
    • The power rating says nothing about sound quality, so it has no place as 'the most prominent feature' of a speaker set.