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theneb
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My creative 6700 6.1 set has been one of the poorest investments I've ever made! Nothing but trouble and this is trouble for every unit.
Firstly there was popping sounds which was solved with a psu, but my sub woofer had past the point of no return and was blown.
Now recently the volume varies at lower volumes and very recently the speakers hiss like crazy, this is very annoying when watching dvd's, I've turned down the treble quite low but this doesn't excuse the simple bad quality of creative speakers, Some may say to go down the warrenty road, but I've read the creative support forums and it seems a large amount of users are having the same problems at the same time, thus a replacement unit would only probably have the same problems and it'll cause me more hassle. So I'm sat here just under a year later debating on new speakers, the 6700's cost just under £100, when I first got em they were great. But features that lack are digital inputs and no decoder, it's very much a pc biased unit, there's no remote and other aspects of creative soft I'll discuss later in this post.
This time around I'm looking for a unit up to £250 and I have my eye on the logitech 680 system , so far my experience with logitech has been a great line of mices & my latest keyboard combo. At just £233 from savastore.com they seem relatively cheap and they come with some nice features such as THX cert, decoder, remote, ac-3 and many other cool prices. Has anyone else got this unit and can anyone comment on logitech's speaker lifetime?
One thing I have always placed my trust in are the soundblaster line of cards, they have always been good and the audigy 2 zs with thx cert seems tempting but would it be better looking elsewhere, one thing I hate about creative is that fact that they chuck that much rubbish onto my computer even with minimal install settings, the horde on resources is just plain silly, Even though I make a point of chucking every application onto another partition nested in c:\programs
So what ya think?
http://www.savastore.com/products/product.asp?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10258967&pid=1
Firstly there was popping sounds which was solved with a psu, but my sub woofer had past the point of no return and was blown.
Now recently the volume varies at lower volumes and very recently the speakers hiss like crazy, this is very annoying when watching dvd's, I've turned down the treble quite low but this doesn't excuse the simple bad quality of creative speakers, Some may say to go down the warrenty road, but I've read the creative support forums and it seems a large amount of users are having the same problems at the same time, thus a replacement unit would only probably have the same problems and it'll cause me more hassle. So I'm sat here just under a year later debating on new speakers, the 6700's cost just under £100, when I first got em they were great. But features that lack are digital inputs and no decoder, it's very much a pc biased unit, there's no remote and other aspects of creative soft I'll discuss later in this post.
This time around I'm looking for a unit up to £250 and I have my eye on the logitech 680 system , so far my experience with logitech has been a great line of mices & my latest keyboard combo. At just £233 from savastore.com they seem relatively cheap and they come with some nice features such as THX cert, decoder, remote, ac-3 and many other cool prices. Has anyone else got this unit and can anyone comment on logitech's speaker lifetime?
One thing I have always placed my trust in are the soundblaster line of cards, they have always been good and the audigy 2 zs with thx cert seems tempting but would it be better looking elsewhere, one thing I hate about creative is that fact that they chuck that much rubbish onto my computer even with minimal install settings, the horde on resources is just plain silly, Even though I make a point of chucking every application onto another partition nested in c:\programs
So what ya think?
http://www.savastore.com/products/product.asp?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10258967&pid=1
