Quick Start Guide

5ASUS Xonar D-KARA

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1 Microphone In port

Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm port for

voice input. Built-in high-quality Microphone pre-amplier.

2 Line In port

Connect analog devices like MP3 players, CD players, music

synthesizers and other line-level sound sources to this 3.5mm

port for audio recording or processing.

Headphone/Front Out

port

Connect your headphones or 2 channel speakers to this 3.5mm

port. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to the front

left/right input on the powered speakers.

4 Side Surround Out port

Connects to the surround channel input on 4/5.1 powered

analog speakers.

Center/Subwoofer Out

port

Connects to the center/subwoofer input on 5.1 powered analog

speakers.

6 S/PDIF Out port

Optical TOSLINK digital output port. Connects to external digital

decoder or digital speaker systems, Home Theater systems, AV

receivers for outputting digital audio including PCM, DTS Digital,

DTS, WMA-Pro, etc.

Front panel audio

header

9-pin Intel AC’97 / HDA front-panel which supports audio jack-

detection and audio FP Headphone selection for Analog Out on

the Audio Center.

8 Aux Input Header

4-pin header. Usually connects to the Analog Audio output of

TV tuner card or other sound source inside your PC system. (To

monitor your TV tuner card’s audio from this Aux-In, you must

enable the “monitor” function for Aux-In in the Xonar D-KARA

Audio Center’s recording mixer.)

9 S/PDIF Out header

Connects to the supported graphics card with HDMI.

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