A question about speakers

Matthew on 3/12/2008 at 17:20

Hello again T&T. I'm currently using some older speakers, namely the (http://www.guru3d.com/article/inspire-t7700-71-speakers-review/) Creative Inspire T7700 7.1 speaker setup. One thing that I have noticed with these speakers is that, when I activate EAX or somthing like that in games any sound effects / speech coming from straight in 'front' of me is very faint to the point of being inaudible, whereas anything from the side or rear is not.

Anyway, what I was wondering was whether I would see a big difference if I switched to a THX-certified system like the (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-gigaworks-s750.html) Creative Gigaworks S750 or even the (http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-298-1.htm) Logitech Z-5500s, even though that would be 'dropping down' to 5.1?

bikerdude on 3/12/2008 at 20:12

Quote Posted by Matthew

One thing that I have noticed with these speakers is that, when I activate EAX or somthing like that in games any sound effects / speech coming from straight in 'front' of me is very faint to the point of being inaudible, whereas anything from the side or rear is not.

Ok this sounds like a software issue, have you checked that the center speaker isn't faulty, by swapping its connection with one of the other speakers..?

Also what version of windows you got and what sound card r u using..?

biker

Matthew on 4/12/2008 at 22:27

It's happened on both Windows 95 with a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS and Windows XP with an X-Fi Fatal1ty. I'm not too worried about it, tbh, I suspect it's a hardware issue since purchase - hence my interest in upgrading to some serious boom-boom speakers!