Xonar D2/D2X 7.1 Channel Audio Card 192KHz/24Bit DuplexHDTM Featuring Dolby and DTS Technologies for Home Entertainment ® ® RMAA V.6.0.5 Test Guide and Results Revision: 1.2 Date: Sep.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 The Xonar D2/D2X sound card package includes RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) v.5.6, popular software intended for testing the quality of audio equipment, be it a sound card, portable MP3 player, consumer CD/DVD player, or a speaker system. However, the latest RightMark Audio Analyzer v6.0.5 is now available. This document describes the test guideline with RMAA v6.0.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 1 2 3 2. Set analog output to 2-speaker mode (to get rid of any channel processing over RMAA stereo signals in the driver) If the Windows platform is Vista, please mind to also select “2 channels” for Audio Channel as the following picture. Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 3. Turn off all sound effects including Dolby, DTS, 7.1 speaker shifter, EQ, Environment, etc. A quick way to do so is to enable the “Hi-Fi mode” button in the Audio Center. 4. Go to the Mixer Recording page and select “ALT” as the recording source. Click “Reset” to make sure the recording volume is on the default highest level (0dB). This is actually a high-quality onboard loop-back path from the Line-out directly to the Line-In.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 4 Note: You may also choose to use an external 3.5mm line cable as follows (as short as possible) to connect the Front-Out jack to the Line-In jack for loop-back testing. In that case, please select “Line In” as the recording source on the mixer page. However, this external cable may cause unexpected performance drop depending on its cable quality. 3.5mm Line Cable Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 5. Turn the master volume knob to the MAX level (0dB) 6. Click “Reset” on the playback volume mixer page to keep the volume to default settings. (i.e. WAVE volume to max (100) and LEFT and Right channel volume to default level (76)) 6 6 5 2.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 =>open “Properties” => Click “Advanced” tab => select “24bit, 48000 Hz” in the format pull-down menu (for 24bit/48KHz test in RMAA) 2.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 Again, in the case using a line cable for loop-back test, please set the format for “Line In” device in the recording page. 3. Configuration and Test with RMAA Start RMAA and follow the setup procedure below. 1. On Vista, please select the playback device as “[DirectSound] Speakers (ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Device)” (or [MME] Speakers (ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Device) and recording device as “[MME] ALT (ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Device)”.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 1 2 3 4 5 2. Select 24bit and 48KHz for the test signals. (Before you change the format here for next test, please remember to go back to set the SAME sample rate output first in the Xonar D2/D2X Audio Center and Vista sound properties like the above procedure as well. Please mind that Xonar D2/D2X currently supports 44.1K, 48K, 96K, and 192KHz. 88.2K, 176.2KHz, and 32bit(float) tests are not supported.) 3.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 or low level may affect the test authenticity). Begin the test by clicking the “Start test” button. 6 If the recorded level is not high enough, please check and make the WAVE and Master Volume have been at the maximum level; Instead, if the recorded level is too high, please lower the WAVE and Master volumes gradually until the level is ok.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 After starting test, there will be a pop-up progressing bar and please wait a few seconds. 7. Select one empty slot to save the data and you may change the name. Then click “OK”. 7 8. RMAA will pop up the Test results window as follows. You can click the “Select” checkbox and click to “Make html report”. Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 8 9. Check and key in the report name/options as follows and then click “OK” to generate the HTML report in an assigned directory. 9 Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 4. Xonar D2/D2X RMAA Testing Results The following tables copied from RMAA disclosed the complete test data results for DirectSound_16bit, DirectSound_24bit, MME_16bit, and MME_24bit. Each table contains 44.1K, 48K, 96K, and 192 KHz sample rate tests. Generally speaking, Xonar D2/D2X can achieve arround 116dB SNR for 24-bit and 96~103dB SNR for 16bit in RMAA loop-back test. Most important, all results can get “Excellent” general performance credits.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 MME 16-Bit Test Results MME 24-Bit Test Results Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 5. Xonar D2/D2X HTML Test Report You can review the HTML report including the graphics for the test plots. Open the html file you created and saved in the test above (section 2), and it will display the report with both data and plots in your browser.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 RMAA Version 6.0.5 20 Hz - 20 kHz filter ON Normalize amplitude ON Mono mode OFF Calibration singal, Hz 1000 Polarity inverted/correct Summary Frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB +0.08, -0.04 Excellent Noise level, dB (A) -116.3 Excellent Dynamic range, dB (A) 116.2 Excellent THD, % 0.0003 Excellent THD + Noise, dB (A) -105.0 Excellent IMD + Noise, % 0.0009 Excellent Stereo crosstalk, dB -115.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 From 20 Hz to 20 kHz, dB -0.11, +0.09 From 40 Hz to 15 kHz, dB -0.04, +0.08 Noise level RMS power, dB Left Right -115.0 -115.2 Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 RMS power (A-weighted), dB -116.2 -116.4 -92.8 -93.2 -0.0 -0.0 Left Right Dynamic range, dB +115.0 +115.1 Dynamic range (A-weighted), dB +116.2 +116.3 -0.00 -0.00 Peak level, dB FS DC offset, % Dynamic range DC offset, % THD + Noise (at -3 dB FS) Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 Left Right THD, % +0.0003 +0.0003 THD + Noise, % +0.0005 +0.0005 THD + Noise (A-weighted), % +0.0006 +0.0005 Intermodulation distortion Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 Left Right IMD + Noise, % +0.0010 +0.0009 IMD + Noise (A-weighted), % +0.0005 +0.0004 Stereo crosstalk Left Right Crosstalk at 100 Hz, dB -116 -112 Crosstalk at 1000 Hz, dB -115 -114 Crosstalk at 10000 Hz, dB -112 -112 IMD (swept tones) Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
ASUS Xonar D2/D2X Audio Card RMAA v6.0.5 Test Guide V.1.2 Left Right IMD + Noise at 5000 Hz, 0.0006 0.0006 IMD + Noise at 10000 Hz, 0.0005 0.0005 IMD + Noise at 15000 Hz, 0.0005 0.0005 Copyright © ASUSTek Computer Inc. All Right Reserved. http://www.asus.com/ P.
