Asus Xonar DSX - Manual (Page 4)

4 ASUS Xonar DSX Quick Start Guide
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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 DSX Audio Center‘s
recording mixer.)
8 S/PDIF Out header Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.
9 PCI Express Bus Golden
Fingers
Insert into the PCI Express slot on your motherboard.