Wii surround sound on Logitech Z5500 speakers.

Mathesar · 12-04-06, 11:02 AM

Does anyone have Wii hooked up to Logitech Z5500s? (Or Z680's being they have the same inputs), The Logitechs have a Pro Logic 2 setting Im just curious how I would go about hooking up Wii's audio, it doesnt have any RCA inputs so not sure how to go about it ..heres a shot of the back:

Zelda_fan · 12-04-06, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Mathesar

Does anyone have Wii hooked up to Logitech Z5500s? (Or Z680's being they have the same inputs), The Logitechs have a Pro Logic 2 setting Im just curious how I would go about hooking up Wii's audio, it doesnt have any RCA inputs so not sure how to go about it ..heres a shot of the back:

it's actually quite possible, and would work very well seeing as the Z5500s can decode Dolby ProLogicII.

You will need one of these bad boys though:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...ormat=2&style=

toxikneedle · 12-04-06, 03:50 PM

it has always pissed me off that the z5500's dont have an rca input. why they didn't include one is beyond me.

Zelda_fan · 12-04-06, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by toxikneedle

it has always pissed me off that the z5500's dont have an rca input. why they didn't include one is beyond me.

They included three of them. You simply have to buy a $1.50 adapter to use them.

toxikneedle · 12-04-06, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Zelda_fan

They included three of them. You simply have to buy a $1.50 adapter to use them.

Yeah but my cheap altec lansing have a rca input, so it's kind of odd that logitech didn't include even one.... and yeah i understand that $1 adapters are cheap and all... but still out of the box at least 1 should be there.

Mathesar · 12-05-06, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Zelda_fan

it's actually quite possible, and would work very well seeing as the Z5500s can decode Dolby ProLogicII.

You will need one of these bad boys though:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...ormat=2&style=

Ah yea I figured i'd need something like that , would I just plug it into the Front input then? Thanks.

Zelda_fan · 12-06-06, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mathesar

Ah yea I figured i'd need something like that , would I just plug it into the Front input then? Thanks.

No, plug it into either the green, black, or orange 3.5mm input.

Mathesar · 12-06-06, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Zelda_fan

No, plug it into either the green, black, or orange 3.5mm input.

Heh yea thats what I meant by "Front" (as shown in the pic, #1 input) , but I didnt know any 3 of those inputs would be fine, Thanks.

Zelda_fan · 12-06-06, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Mathesar

Heh yea thats what I meant by "Front" (as shown in the pic, #1 input) , but I didnt know any 3 of those inputs would be fine, Thanks.

You would need to flip that little switch that says "Stereo 1-3" to do it.

Braveheart80 · 12-07-06, 08:30 PM

Just what I needed to connect my z5500 with my beloved Wii

I have set up (through wii settings) surround sound and connected the red and white cable as shown in this thread

I have one last question though ; In the lcs screen of my logitech it says Input Stereo1 and Effect Stereo
For the Effect I have the following choices
Stereo,Stereox2,Dolby PL 2 Movie,Dolby PL 2 Music

To listen to surround sound i must set this to Dolby PL 2 movie?
If not which is the right setting?

MustangSVT · 12-07-06, 08:51 PM

Does the Wii have surround sound in the first place? Surround sound is 5.1 and assuming it's Dolby Digital 5.1, that would show up at DD Digital on the Z-5500s with no "mode" to change through. If you can select Stereo, Stereo x2, Dolby PLII Movie & Dolby PLII Music, then the Wii is outputting stereo.

Dolby PLII is like remixing from Stereo to 5.1. You could use the "Movie" setting for games I guess.

Braveheart80 · 12-07-06, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MustangSVT

Does the Wii have surround sound in the first place? Surround sound is 5.1 and assuming it's Dolby Digital 5.1, that would show up at DD Digital on the Z-5500s with no "mode" to change through. If you can select Stereo, Stereo x2, Dolby PLII Movie & Dolby PLII Music, then the Wii is outputting stereo.

Dolby PLII is like remixing from Stereo to 5.1. You could use the "Movie" setting for games I guess.

I think that DD Digital etc can only be displayed from digital sources (optical,coaxial ) , not from analogue ones

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Braveheart80 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2	Re: Wii surround sound on Logitech Z5500 speakers. Just what I needed to connect my z5500 with my beloved Wii I have set up (through wii settings) surround sound and connected the red and white cable as shown in this thread I have one last question though ; In the lcs screen of my logitech it says Input Stereo1 and Effect Stereo For the Effect I have the following choices Stereo,Stereox2,Dolby PL 2 Movie,Dolby PL 2 Music To listen to surround sound i must set this to Dolby PL 2 movie? If not which is the right setting?

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MustangSVT Stop looking at me Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,653	Re: Wii surround sound on Logitech Z5500 speakers. Does the Wii have surround sound in the first place? Surround sound is 5.1 and assuming it's Dolby Digital 5.1, that would show up at DD Digital on the Z-5500s with no "mode" to change through. If you can select Stereo, Stereo x2, Dolby PLII Movie & Dolby PLII Music, then the Wii is outputting stereo. Dolby PLII is like remixing from Stereo to 5.1. You could use the "Movie" setting for games I guess. __________________ 1. Q6600 @ 3.2, ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo, Powercolor HD 4890 CrossFire, 4GB Mushkin DDR2-1066, 3x 24" LCD, Matrox TripleHead2Go, Audigy 2 ZS 2. Q9550 @ 3.7, ASUS P5K, Galaxy 8800GT G92, 2GB Mushkin DDR2-1066, Samsung 710N + Samsung 205BW, Audigy 2 + SB Live! 5.1 (hooked up together, really), dad's comp 3. XP-M 2500+ @ 205x11.5, Gigabyte nForce2-400, GeForce4 Ti4200, 2x512MB OCZ DDR-400 "Premier", oldie

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