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Description

 

1Microphone In port Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm port for voice input. Built-in high-quality Microphone pre-amplifier.

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

 

 

Ultra-high fidelity 102dB SNR A-D converter)

2Headphone/Front Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to this

Out port3.5mm port. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to the front left/right input on the powered speakers.

3Side Surround Out Connects to the surround channel input on 4/4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1

portpowered analog speakers.

4Center/Subwoofer Connects to the center/subwoofer input on 5.1/6.1/7.1

Out portpowered analog speakers.

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

Out portanalog 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

Intel HDA front-panel compatible and supports HP jack-

 

 

header

detection and automatically switch audio output from the

 

 

 

back panel to the front panel.

 

 

 

Supports both front-panel and sound card mic input mixing

 

7

Aux Input 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 DS Audio

 

 

 

Center‘s recording mixer.)

 

8S/PDIF Out header Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.

ASUS Xonar DS