ASUS Xonar DG SI User Manual

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Description
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Microphone In port
Connect your external PC microphone to this 3.5mm port for 
voice input. Built-in high-quality Microphone pre-amplifier.
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.
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.
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. 
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Front panel audio 
header
9-pin Intel AC’97 / HDA front-panel which supports audio 
jack-detection and audio FP Headphone selection for Analog 
Out on the Audio Center.
7
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’s recording mixer.)
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S/PDIF Out header
Connects to the graphics card with HDMI support.