Contents

Contents.......................................................................................................

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Notices..........................................................................................................

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Safety information.......................................................................................

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Trademarks..................................................................................................

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License.........................................................................................................

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1.

Introduction......................................................................................

1

 

1.1

Package contents...............................................................

1

 

1.2

System requirements..........................................................

1

 

1.3

Specifications summary......................................................

2

2.

Hardware overview..........................................................................

4

 

2.1

Xonar HDAV card layout.....................................................

4

 

2.2

H6 DAC extension board layout.........................................

6

3.

Installing the hardware....................................................................

7

 

3.1

Preparing your computer....................................................

7

 

3.2

Installing the Xonar HDAV 1.3 card....................................

8

 

3.3

Connecting to a TV tuner card..........................................

10

4.

Installing software..........................................................................

11

 

4.1

Installing the card driver....................................................

11

 

4.2

Installing the TotalMedia Theatre software.......................

12

5.

Connecting speakers and peripherals.........................................

13

 

5.1

Connecting digital speaker systems (Home Theater).......

13

 

5.2

Connecting Headphones..................................................

14

 

5.3

Connecting Analog Speaker Systems..............................

16

 

5.4

Connecting Microphone....................................................

23

 

5.5

Connecting Line-In Audio Sources...................................

24

 

5.6

Connecting Digital Audio Sources....................................

25

6.

Xonar HDAV Center.......................................................................

26

 

6.1

Xonar HDAV Center GUI..................................................

26

 

6.2

Audio-Main Setting...........................................................

28

 

6.3

Mixer/Volume....................................................................

38

 

6.4

Effects...............................................................................

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6.5

Karaoke............................................................................

43

 

6.6

FlexBass...........................................................................

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6.7

AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation)...................................

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6.8

Smart Volume Normalization............................................

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