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Item

Description

 

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Microphone jack

Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm jack

 

 

 

for voice input. Built-in high-quality Microphone pre-

 

 

 

amplifier.

 

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Line Input jack

Connect analog devices like MP3 players, CD players,

 

 

 

music synthesizers and other line-level sound sources

 

 

 

to this 3.5mm jack for audio recording or processing.

 

 

 

(Through Ultra-high fidelity 115dB SNR A-D converter)

 

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S/PDIF Output jack

Optical S/PDIF output jack. Connects to an external

 

 

 

digital decoder or digital speaker systems, Home Theater

 

 

 

systems, AV receivers for outputting digital audio including

 

 

 

PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS, WMA-Pro, etc.

 

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Headphone/Front

Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to

 

 

Output jack

this jack. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to

 

 

 

the front left/right input on the powered speakers.

 

3Side Surround Output Connects to the surround channel input on

jack4/4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1 powered analog speakers.

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Center/Subwoofer

Connects to the front center/subwoofer input on 5.1/6.1/7.1

 

Output jack

powered analog speakers.

5Rear/back Surround Connects to the Back Surround input on 6.1/7.1 powered

Output Jackanalog speakers.

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Front panel audio

Connect one end of the front panel audio cable to the front

 

header

panel audio header on the D1 card, the other end to the

 

 

chassis-mounted front panel audio I/O module on your

 

 

motherboard.

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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 Audio Center software’s recording mixer.)

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S/PDIF Out Header

Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.

ASUS Xonar D1

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