Asus Xonar D2X - Manual (Page 11)

5 ASUS Xonar D2
No Item Description
1 Microphone Jack Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm jack for
voice input. Built-in high-quality Microphone pre-amplifier.
2 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 118dB SNR A-D converter)
3 Headphone/Front
Output Jack
Connect your headphones or 2/2.1 channel speakers to this
jack. For multi-channel speaker systems, connects to the
front left/right input on the powered speakers.
4 Side Surround Output
Jack
Connects to the surround channel input on 4/4.1/5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
5 Center/Subwoofer
Output Jack
Connects to the front center/subwoofer input on 5.1/6.1/7.1
powered analog speakers.
6 Rear/Back Surround
Output Jack
Connects to the Back Surround input on 6.1/7.1 powered
analog speakers.
7 S/PDIF Input Coaxial and optical TOSLINK combo digital input jack.
Connects to external digital audio sources such as MD
players, CD players, or DVD players, for audio recording or
loopback.
8 S/PDIF Output Coaxial and optical TOSLINK combo digital output jack.
Connects to external digital decoder or digital speaker
systems, Home Theater systems, AV receivers for outputting
digital audio including PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS, WMA-Pro,
etc.
9 CD Input Header 4-pin header. Connects to the Analog Audio output on the
back panel of CD/DVD-ROM drive using an Analog CD
audio cable, which is usually available with your CD/DVD-
ROM drive. You can still play CD audio through the Xonar
driver without connecting this. We recommend playing audio
through the driver to take advantage of the Xonar’s high
quality D-A converter, but this header is provided in case you
need it.
10 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.)
11 MIDI I/O Header Connects to the additional MIDI board/bracket (available in
the package)
12 Main Audio Processor ASUS Xonar AV200 Audio Processing Unit (DuplexHD
192K/24bit)
13 PCI Bus Golden
Fingers
Connects to the PCI slot on your motherboard