4Microphone In port

Connect your external PC microphone to this port for voice input. It has a built-in high-quality Microphone pre-amplifier.

Line In port

Through an Ultra-high fidelity 118dB SNR A-D converter, connect analog devices like MP3 players, CD players, music synthesizers, and other line-level sound sources to this 6.3mm port for audio recording or processing.

5SP/DIF Out port

Coaxial and optical TOSLINK combo digital output port. Connect to external digital decoder or digital speaker systems, Home Theater systems, AV receivers for outputting digital audio including PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS, and WMA-Pro.

6Front panel audio header

Connect one end of the front panel audio cable to the front panel audio header on the Xonar Essence ST card, with the other end to the chassis-mountedfront panel audio I/O module.

7Aux Input Header

Usually connects to the Analog Audio output of TV tuner card or other sound source inside your computer. To monitor your TV tuner card’s audio from this Aux-In,

you must enable the “monitor” function for Aux-In in the Xonar Essence ST Audio Center‘s recording mixer.

8

Power connector

 

Connects to the power cable of your power supply unit.

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