Cambridge
DTT2500 5.1 speakers
review
Posted by Thomas
McGuire on May 10, 2000 - Page 3/4
Company:
Cambridge
Soundworks Product:
Desktop
Theater 5.1 Digital
The Speakers
I placed the 5 speakers & subwoofer as outlined in the Soundcard/Speaker tweaking guide.
After a few minutes I found my “happy place” with how they
were positioned. The DTT2500 also comes with a handy little
button on the Digital amplifier entitled Speaker test which
outputs sound to each of the 5 speakers & subwoofer. Its
useful for adjusting volume levels as each channel is played
separately. The sound is perfectly
clear too I should add.
The 5 speakers are magnetically shielded, the subwoofer
however isn’t. This quite important as one of the speakers
should be placed on your monitor (center speaker) & would
normally get interference as a result. Obviously this isn’t
the case due to the magnetic shielding on them.
Another area that some of you may have experienced is radio
station interference, I have experienced this fairly
frequently on my old, non-shielded FPS 1000 when they were
powered on. The DTT2500 doesn’t suffer from this problem
either. Two big thumbs up to Cambridge SoundWorks for the nice
job in this department.
Subwoofer
The subwoofer’s output is extremely good & can be
heard all over my house, my house is quite big. Placing my
hand on the table I can feel the strong vibrations that’s
caused by the subwoofer. This is equally great in DVD movies,
CD audio & of course, games. Turning up the subwoofers
volume to full & the ground does literally move beneath
you. I’d recommend leaving it at about 1/3 or so though.
Digital amplifier
The Digital amplifier that comes with the DTT2500 is quite
special. Apart from the Dolby Digital decoder that’s in it,
it also has a few more things that you can do with it.
Independent
controls for the Master (overall volume), Center,
Subwoofer & Surround volume.
The aforementioned Speaker test is very useful for separately adjusting volume levels to each of the
speakers.
Creative multi speaker surround. There are 4
options selectable with this button – Music, Movie,
Fourpoint & Stereo. These are each fairly self-explanatory
in what they do. E.g. if you’re listening to an audio CD,
you should select Music. The Fourpoint mode should be selected
when playing 4 channel positional audio games like those that
support DirectSound 3d, EAX or A3D. The Quick reference guide
explains what each of these does & when to use what
setting.
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