Last Ray of Hope

Having just upgraded my XBox 360 monitor to HD, I was now lacking a descent sound system to back it up with.

When watching films at a friends house, we have 5.1 surround sound, and I’m often noticing the sounds coming from different directions, which is something I’m not use to with only having 2.1.

So my requirements for speakers would be first to be 5.1, have a remote control for turning down at night, and to support optical for the better sound quality.

After a bit of searching, and dismissing a lot of speakers that come with DVD players, I came by the Logitech Z-5500 5.1 THX 500W Speakers.

And with luck, they were also available on Misco, which was surprising since I couldn’t find a speaker section on the website. Ordering them for Saturday delivery, they didn’t arrive, so on Monday I was going to book some holiday for Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, but they early and my neighbour signed them for me.

Opening the huge box, I found where most of my money went, the subwoofer. It has a hilarious notice with it, telling me to keep it two feet away from any other electronics, which after rearranging my room I was able to achieve.

The only downside was that I couldn’t use them til Tuesday, since despite paying £230, they didn’t give me an optical cable with it. Speaking of which, Maplin sells a gold plated optical cable… how does that even make sense?

Playing Borderlands later that night was a lot easier to know where enemies were shooting me from.