User manual

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ASUS Xonar DSX
No Item Description
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.
1 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 (through an ultra-high delity 102dB
SNR A-D converter).
2 Headphone/Front
Out port
Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to this 3.5mm
port. For multi-channel speaker systems, this port 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
Connects to the Back Surround input on 6.1/7.1 powered analog
speakers.
5 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.
6 Front panel audio
header
Intel HDA front-panel compatible and supports HP jack-detection and
automatically switches audio output from the back panel to the front
panel.
Supports both front-panel and sound card mic input mixing
7 Aux Input Header Connects to the Analog Audio output of a 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 DSX Audio Center‘s recording mixer.)
8 S/PDIF Out header Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.
9 PCI Express Bus
Golden Fingers
Insert into the PCI Express slot on your motherboard.