Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System - THX, Dolby Digital and DTS Digital Certified - Black

I had the Logitech Z680 system since around 2005 before getting the Z906.The Z680, for the time, was a phenomenal set of speakers for a computer system. 400+ watts made my house shake.Now, 23 years later, the Z680's finally died on me...not the speakers, the electronics that are contained on the back of the bass speaker. I was deeply saddened and simultaneously almost in a panic as my music is extremely important to me and there was no way I was going to be able to use the el cheap-o 2 speaker setup I kept for just whatever. I also live on a fixed income, so I needed to be able to afford something as good or better for a similar price I paid for the Z680 setup.I naturally went back to looking at Logitech. There was the Z5500, but way, way too costly. Then found the Z906. The price, for me, was still a little high, but not so much so that I couldn't somehow work it out, so I purchased it after reading all the info I could all over the internet about them.When they got to the house, the first thing I notcied was a big 2"x3" hole where it looks like someone was carrying the box and ran into the corner of a desk or something. Unfortunately the puncture went all the way through to the inside box and into the grill of one of the satellite speakers and dented it pretty good, enough so that I had to take the faceplate off the speaker and gently tap the grill away from the speaker itself so it could work properly as the grill was actually pressing down some on the speaker itself.Once everything was back together, I set the system up on my computer. I'm at the computer at least 10 hours a day, and my music is important to me, so I have a very nice sound card for my system. I'm not a gamer though, so the speakers weren't important in that way for me at all.I The system is really easy to set-up, it's just a little time consuming, especially if you want to do it right the first time.I didn't need the supplied wire for the satellites as I simply had left the wires for my old speaker system setup where they were and they were perfect for the Z906 satellites.Plugging everything in to the bass was also nice and easy, everything is labeled nicely, so I had no trouble moving all the stuff that was plugged in to the Z680 bass over to the Z906 bass.The control panel is a bit nicer than what came with the Z680, and much easier to adjust to whatever one needs, though you still have to have two hands to do so - one to hold it down and the other to press the buttons. My advice here - *USE THE REMOTE CONTROL*. This makes things so much easier. It's actually the one of two things I like best about the Z906 over the Z680 I had, the other being the bass weighs about half as much.The one con I had about the Z906 system is that Logitech went el cheap-o and didn't supply speaker stands. I found that to be pretty lame on their part.Once it was all set-up, I turn on some music (I'm extremely eclectic and can listen to anything from head-banging skin-head stuff, to Mozart and Wagner...I *won't* listen to (c)rap or this bubblegum pop BS nowadays). Again Logitech didn't disappoint. These speakers *WILL* make the house shake. They have plenty of highs and the bass does a great job of thumping if the music calls for it.Every kind of music needs to have the sound set differently for it. For example, I wouldn't leave the bass set as high for Beethoven as I do for Black Flag. So I don't understand the reviews saying bad things about either too much or too little bass or highs (tweets). The levels of this system can be set to do whatever one wants for whatever type of music one is listening to. If you want to listen to Chopin, then turn the bass down to what you want for that. If you want to listen to some Disturbed, then turn the bass up for that.I also am able to adjust things even more on my Linux system computer, and I'm sure people using that garbage called Microsoft Windows are able to do so too, but I believe they simply don't know they can or maybe even simply lazy and don't *want* to have to make adjustments for the music they're listening to at the moment. Whatever. I just know that these speakers, with the correct adjustments made for each type of music I might be listening to, can, for instance, make me feel like I'm in some fine music hall, center seating, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125 'Ode an die Freude' is playing live because I'm back in time and it sounds that good...at least to me, heh.Overall, these are well worth the price if you want something halfway decent and can crank up and really impress your neighbor(s)(hood) or make them come looking for you with torches, pitchforks and rope! Learn to adjust the levels for what you might be playing, then sit back and enjoy, because these speakers *for your computer* will *NOT* disappoint. Put in a nice sound card to make sure you get the best from them, I have an Audigy RX which works perfectly for me, giving me all the power the Z906's will want and the clarity and surround sound and everything else a non-pro audiophile will want. These Z906's are fantastic at movies too.

I understand why this one is revered for the value you get for the price. I wanted a good setup that I could link a TV and computer too, so I could enjoy music and gaming at good volume, but also have options to direct and control the sound when I wanted to watch something at night and didn't want the noise to keep people up in other rooms. This one checks every box I was looking for. The controls are very simple, the functions allow me to do exactly what I need to do in very simple fashion, and on top of that - its just really fun to listen to music on this thing. It has options for upmixing stereo sources, or you can hook an actual surround source to it, or just listen in stereo - it all sounds good. After hooking this up, I just spent the better part of several days using my freetime to do dedicated music listening. I couldn't wait to here what my next favorite song would song like. I have an existing home theater in a box system, so I'm not new to multichannel listening, but this thing just blows my old Samsung completely out of the water.I was quite impressed that, despite being an affordable setup, nothing at all felt cheap. The speakers were more solidly built than I anticipated. Only downside to this one, which should be evident from other reviews, is that it doesn't seem to work with a lot of common mounting systems. So at present, I haven't figured out how I should do their permanent setup in my room.This one is fantastic for listening to a lot of music, but I will say that if you are listening to music made around 2000-2010ish (loudness war era) that stuff isn't gonna get the most of this system. Stuff that has more dynamic range absolutely rips and moves in this thing, but with stuff is mastered within an inch of its life, those big moments just don't come because everything is at the same volume level and that really takes away what makes this thing so fun to listen to.

The might cost a pretty penny but sound quality and options are amazing! I had a Logitech 5.1 surround system on my PC for 12 years and they finally died and replaced them with this set cause I liked the last set. Definitely does not disappoint. Comes with plenty of cable length and wires are good quality and all speakers are individually adjustable (great function you don't normally see) for perfectly balanced sound with no distortion. 100% recommend, great value for the money.