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ASUS Xonar DS Quick Start Guide
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1 Microphone In port
Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm port for
voiceinput.Built-inhigh-qualityMicrophonepre-amplier.
1 Line In port
ConnectanalogdeviceslikeMP3players,CDplayers,
musicsynthesizersandotherline-levelsoundsourcesto
this 3.5mm port for audio recording or processing. (Through
Ultra-highdelity102dBSNRA-Dconverter)
2 Headphone/Front
Out port
Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to this
3.5mm port. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to
the front left/right input on the powered speakers.
3 Side Surround Out
port
Connects to the surround channel input on 4/4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
4 Center/Subwoofer
Out port
Connects to the center/subwoofer input on 5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
5 Rear/back Surround
Out port
ConnectstotheBackSurroundinputon6.1/7.1powered
analog speakers.
5 S/PDIF Out port
Optical TOSLINK digital output port. Connects to external
digital decoder or digital speaker systems, Home Theater
systems,AVreceiversforoutputtingdigitalaudioincluding
PCM, DTS Digital, DTS, WMA-Pro, etc.
6 Front panel audio
header
Intel HDA front-panel compatible and supports HP jack-
detection and automatically switch audio output from the
back panel to the front panel.
Supports both front-panel and sound card mic input mixing
7 Aux Input Header
Usually connects to the Analog Audio output of TV tuner card
or other sound source inside your PC system. (To monitor
yourTVtunercard’saudiofromthisAux-In,youmustenable
the “monitor” function for Aux-In in the Xonar DS Audio
Center‘srecordingmixer.)
8 S/PDIF Out header
Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.