Asus Xonar DS - Manual (Page 11)

5 ASUS Xonar DS
No Item Description
1 Microphone 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)
2 Headphone/Front
Out port
Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to this
3.5mm port. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to
the front left/right input on the powered speakers.
3 Side Surround Out
port
Connects to the surround channel input on 4/4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
4 Center/Subwoofer
Out port
Connects to the center/subwoofer input on 5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
5 Rear/back Surround
Out port
Connects to the Back Surround input on 6.1/7.1 powered
analog 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
header
Intel HDA front-panel compatible and supports HP jack-
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.)
8 S/PDIF Out header Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.