10.RMAA Test Guide

Xonar D2 driver CD includes RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) v5.6, which is a popular software intended for testing the quality of analog and digital sound sections of any audio equipment, be it a sound card, portable MP3 player, consumer CD/DVD player, or a speaker system. The measurements are conducted by playing and recording test signals, as well as using frequency analysis algorithms. The following provides a step-by-step and easiest loop-back test guide for your Xonar D2 audio card.

10.1Setting Up Xonar D2 Audio Card

Open Xonar D2 Audio Center. Do the settings below:

1.Select sample rate you will be using with RMAA (here we set 48KHz for testing 48KHz/24bit signals).

2.Set analog output to 2-speaker mode (to get rid of any channel processing over RMAA stereo signals in the driver)

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 “Hi-Fi mode” button in the Audio Center.

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