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ASUS Xonar D1
Intermodulation distortion
Stereo crosstalk
Parameter Left Right
IMD + Noise, %:
+0.0010 +0.0009
IMD + Noise (A-weighted), %:
+0.0008 +0.0007
Содержание
- Audio card 1
- Asus xonar d1 2
- First edition v1 july 008 2
- Contents 3
- Contents 4
- Canadian department of communications statement 5
- Federal communications commission statement 5
- Notices 5
- License 6
- Safety information 6
- Trademarks 6
- Introduction 7
- Package contents 7
- System requirements 7
- Asus xonar d1 8
- Continued on the next page 8
- Specifications summary 8
- Asus xonar d1 9
- Specifications are subject to change without notice 9
- Asus xonar d1 10
- Hardware overview 10
- Xonar d1 layout 10
- Installing the audio card 12
- Installing the xonar hardware 12
- Preparing your computer 12
- Connecting to a graphics card with hdmi support 13
- Connect the audio output header from the tv tuner card to the aux in header of the audio card as shown in the figure below 14
- Connecting a tv tuner card 14
- If you have a traditional pci or pci express tv tuner card on your pc you may need to connect it to the audio card to send the tuner card s sound to your pc speakers 14
- Secure the pci pci express tv tuner card and screw it into the back panel 14
- Installing software 15
- Installing the audio card driver 15
- Asus xonar d1 16
- Connect your decoder s s pdif in port to the optical adapter with the toslink optical cable 16
- Connecting digital speaker systems home theater 16
- Connecting speakers and peripherals 16
- Plug the optical toslink adapter into the s pdif out connector 16
- The xonar d1 supports dolby digital live technology which transcode any audio including games and music into industry standard dolby digital surround bit streams this makes playback through your home theater system possible creating an immersive and impressive cinema surround sound experience a single digital cable connection can carry high quality dolby digital digital audio from any of your pc audio sources to any digital speakers or av receivers with dolby digital decoding capabilities 16
- Asus xonar d1 17
- Connecting headphones 17
- Connecting stereo headphones 17
- The front out jack has a built in high quality amplifier to drive headphones connect your stereo headphones directly to this jack 17
- Asus xonar d1 18
- Connect the center bass channel mm plug of your 5 headphone into this jack 18
- Connect the front channel mm plug of your 5 headphones into this jack 18
- Connect the surround channel mm plug of your 5 headphone into this jack 18
- Connecting 5 channel headphones 18
- Asus xonar d1 19
- Connecting analog power amplifier 19
- Connecting analog speaker systems 19
- Connects to the center and subwoofer input ports of the analog amplifier with the mini jack to rca cable 19
- Connects to the left back and right back input ports of the analog amplifier with the mini jack to rca cable 19
- Connects to the left front and right front input ports of the analog amplifier with the mini jack to rca cable 19
- Connects to the left surround and right surround input ports of the analog amplifier with the mini jack to rca cable 19
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- Connect the speaker set s mm plug into this front out jack 20
- Connecting 2 2 channel speakers 20
- Speakers 20
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- Connecting 4 4 channel speakers 21
- Connects to the front input port of the 4 4 speakers with the mini jack cable 21
- Connects to the surround input port of the 4 4 speakers with the mini jack cable 21
- Speakers 21
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- Connecting 5 channel speakers 22
- Connecting 6 7 channel speakers 22
- Connects to the center subwoofer input port of the 5 speakers with the mini jack cable 22
- Connects to the front input port of the 5 speakers with the mini jack cable 22
- Connects to the surround input port of the 5 speakers with the mini jack cable 22
- Speakers 22
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- Connects to the back surround input port of the 6 7 speakers with the mini jack cable 23
- Connects to the center subwoofer input port of the 6 7 speakers with the mini jack cable 23
- Connects to the front input port of the 6 7 speakers with the mini jack cable 23
- Connects to the surround input port of the 6 7 speakers with the mini jack cable 23
- Speakers 23
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- Connect the microphone s mm plug into this mic in jack for voice communication recording or karaoke 24
- Connect the mm plug of the cd mp player or any other line level analog audio sources into this line in jack for sound recording or real time dolby sound processing through the monitoring path see the mixer section of the driver guide 24
- Connecting line in audio sources 24
- Connecting microphone 24
- Introduction to the xonar d1 audio center gui 25
- Xonar d1 driver guide 25
- Main setting 27
- Sample rate 27
- The sample rate determines the number of audio samples per second that the digital to analog converters dac and s pdif digital interface will output the xonar d1 audio card can support sample rates up to 19 khz 44 k 48k 96k 19 khz usually audio cds and mp files are 44 khz dvd video uses 48khz dvd audio or other hd media may contain 96khz or 19 khz high definition audio content please select the corresponding sample rate for your playback sources to get the best audio fidelity even if your setting differs from the audio source s sample rate the xonar d1 engine will do super high fidelity sample rate conversion with a double floating point filter which can reduce total harmonic distortion thd n by 140db 27
- Analog out speaker test 28
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- Click this check box to enable s pdif output note ensure that you enable s pdif output when using the s pdif out header onboard 29
- Dolby digital live real time 5 ch encoding 29
- Pcm pulse code modulation which is a typical raw audio data format 29
- Spdif out ddl 29
- This advanced setting will automatically upmix stereo ch content to 5 channel surround with dolby pro logic ii when using dolby digital live output 29
- This pull down menu allows you to select one of the following four formats 29
- Xonar d1 is capable of outputting dolby digital live which are real time encoders that transcode any audio including games and music into industry standard dolby digital bit streams on the fly this is ideal for playback through a home theater system creating an immersive and impressive cinema surround sound experience it enables a single digital connection to carry high quality dolby digital surround audio from your pc to digital speakers and av receivers 29
- Audio channels for vista only 30
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- 7 virtual speaker shifter 31
- Click this check box to enable the 7 virtual speaker shifter clicking the text bar will switch the right window to the speaker shifter page for manual adjustments 31
- Click to increase volume move speakers closer click to decrease volume move speakers further away 31
- Expanding upmixing audio to 7 channel surround sound 31
- Make all speakers except subwoofer rotate clockwise 31
- Make all speakers except subwoofer rotate counter clockwise 31
- Manually drag and rotate all speakers except subwoofer 31
- Reset all speaker shifter settings to the defaults 31
- Shiftable virtual speaker positioning allows you to adjust the best sound field easily without moving physical speakers and wires 31
- The 7 virtual speaker shifter has the following major features 31
- This is the default mode that allows you to manually drag each speaker or the listener with your mouse 31
- Virtualizing 7 surround sound over any set of speakers 31
- You can drag each speaker or listener to a different relative position virtually using only your mouse the xonar d1 audio card will process it and virtualize each speaker position in real time the subwoofer has no directional sounds and hence can be moved only closer or further away 31
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- Click this check box to enable dolby pro logic iix clicking the text bar will switch the right window to the pro logic iix page for manual adjustments 32
- Dolby pro logic iix 32
- Dolby pro logic iix is a 7 surround upmixing technology and is widely used in home theater systems tvs game consoles and car audio systems it can expand stereo audio such as mp cd and tv programs into immersive 5 or 7 channel surround 32
- Movie mode is a preset optimized for movie audio 32
- Music mode is the default mode for regular music playback in this mode you can adjust the center width and dimension parameters 32
- Reset all settings to the defaults 32
- The dimension parameter fades sounds to the front or rear of the listener 32
- This parameter is used to set the spread of the center mainly for the vocal signals of songs and music drag the scroll bar to the left to centralize the vocal signal drag to the right side to widen the vocal sound range 32
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- Click this check box to enable dolby headphone clicking the text bar will switch the right window to dolby headphone page for manual adjusting 33
- Dh larger room larger room than dh1 more distant and diffused effect 33
- Dh livelier room more acoustically live than dh1 33
- Dh1 reference room small acoustically damped room 33
- Dolby headphone 33
- Dolby headphone creates a stunning multi channel surround experience over ordinary stereo headphones for playing d games watching 5 dvd movies and listening to music dolby headphone produces surround sound cues so realistic that you will believe you are listening over speakers in a well controlled studio dolby headphone can also improve listening comfort and reduce listener fatigue from long listening over headphones 33
- Dolby headphone dh provides three room filters that may be used with any type of audio they differ in the sense of the spatial dimension they impart 33
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- Click this check box to enable dolby virtual speaker clicking the text bar will switch the right window to a dolby virtual speaker page for manual adjusting 34
- Dolby virtual speaker 34
- Dolby virtual speaker provides two modes of virtualization the first is reference mode which virtualizes the missing speakers as in the following picture 34
- Dolby virtual speaker technology simulates a 5 speaker surround sound listening environment from as few as two speakers dolby virtual speaker also creates a wider two channel environment during playback of stereo cds and mp content and when combined with dolby pro logic ii processing delivers a virtual 5 channel surround listening experience from any high quality stereo source 34
- Wide mode virtualizes the necessary speakers and enhances the surround experience as in the following picture 34
- Mixer volume 35
- Playback volume 35
- Process the input signals with all playback sound effects such as dolby technology 35
- The mixer page is designed to control the volume for playback and recording on the xonar d1 in addition the xonar d1 also provides a high quality digital monitoring function for hearing the recorded audio from the speakers you can also 35
- Recording monitoring volume 36
- Enabling microphone boost will increase a volume gain to boost microphone input signals for typical low cost pc microphone it s recommended to enable this function 37
- You can check with front panel microphone to enable microphone of front panel 37
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- Clicking this button will apply the environment effect that you select from the pull down menu on the right side there are another options in this menu 38
- Effects 38
- Environment effects 38
- Environment effects can be used to create realistic listening experiences that mimic different environments there are a total of 7 environment options which can be applied to all d sound sources like music 38
- There are three size settings for each environment large medium and small 38
- These four buttons activate bathroom concert hall underwater and music pub environments respectively 38
- 10 band equalizer 39
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- Adjust the gain for each band 0 16khz 39
- Click this button to delete the parameters from user defined list 39
- Click this button to save the parameters into user defined list 39
- Key in a name for your own user defined equalizer setting 39
- The equalizer can modify the audio output for different frequencies and be used to compensate for deficiencies in your speakers systems there are 1 default patterns and you can also make your own settings 39
- There are 1 available equalizer patterns click one to apply it 39
- You can click this button to apply your own defined parameters saved in the pull down menu 39
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- Check the box to enable or disable the key shifting feature for music playback from 4 semitones below to 4 semitones above 40
- Checkbox to enable or disable the vocal cancellation function and adjust the voice cancellation level from 0 to 100 100 will eliminate most original vocals default value is 50 40
- Karaoke magic voice 40
- Reset all settings to the default 40
- Select the mic echo function and adjust the gain for echo signals 0 16khz 40
- The switch to turn on or off the functions on this page 40
- The xonar d1 provides powerful features for karaoke including key shifting vocal cancellation and microphone echo microphone echo can generate natural echo effects on your singing voice just like a karaoke machine key shifting can change the pitch of karaoke background music and vocal cancellation can reduce the original vocal in songs and keep the music and symphony for karaoke 40
- Flexbass 41
- Flexbass an advanced bass management and enhancement mechanism allows you to select each satellite speaker s type for optimal sound performance from the speakers small common speaker that cannot produce low frequencies large wide band speakers that can produce low frequencies well it comes with an adjustable crossover frequency for the boundary of the bass signals flexbass will filter out the bass signals from small speaker channels and redirect them all to the subwoofer or large speakers 41
- Aec acoustic echo cancellation 42
- Smart volume normalization 43
- Smart volume normalizationtm svn automatically keeps all music or video tv audio output at a constant level to reduce manual adjustment hassles inherent with sound sources of different loudness it allows you to listen to various content like mp tv program dvd video and even games with consistent sound level the following graph shows how different signals 1 will become the same level for example 10db below full scale after you turn on svn please note that for lower volume music it will become louder when you turn on svn and for higher volume music 1 it will become quieter 43
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- Click this button to enable svn this button is outlined blue when active 44
- Db full scale 44
- Music 1 44
- Music 2 44
- Svn off svn on 44
- When svn is enabled smart volume will be lit up at the bottom of the volume meter and the volume meter will show the level 44
- When svn is enabled the master volume knob will be illuminated by a blue light it will be lit red if the volume is muted 44
- Ds3d gx for vista only and dsp modes 45
- Ds3dgxanddspmodes 45
- Asus xonar d1 46
- Directsound d game extensions mode to support eax and directsound d hardware extensions for lots of directx directsound d games on windows vista and xp 46
- This mode is set for dvd movie playback 46
- This mode is set for games 46
- This mode is set for hi fidelity playback where all effects will be cleared to keep the original digital data and analog output quality as high as possible 46
- This mode is set for music playback 46
- Vocalfx 46
- Vocalfx is an innovative voice processing technology to let your voice get into the realistic game landscape voiceex or to emulate the background scenes in online chat chatex it also allows you to change your voice pitch to disguise who you are magic voice these features dramatically increase the fun for voice communication on pc 46
- Asus xonar d1 47
- Changes your voice pitch to different types for disguising your real voice or just for fun in online chatting 47
- Check the check box of voiceex and local voiceex 47
- For 3d games 47
- For voip 47
- If you don t see the voip application of yours in the list press add make sure the skype and msn messenger are the latest version 47
- It emulates different background environment effects when you chat online 47
- It produces realistic and dynamic environmental reverberation for your voice in d gaming communication 47
- Make sure you and your team member can talk each other in the game 47
- Press app list 47
- You can add voip application into voip application list 47
- You can hear your voice form speakers 47
- Check the check box of chatex and magic voice 49
- You can use chatex and magic voice when you chat online 49
- Asio 2 driver 50
- When using ableton live 50
- Asus xonar d1 51
- Step 1 is to open the preferences window from the options tab 51
- Step 4 is to click the hardware setup to configure the bit depth 16 4bit and latency 1ms 00ms 51
- Step 5 is to select the sample rate from 44 48 96 19 khz 51
- Step is to choose asus xonar d1 asio as the audio device 51
- Step is to select asio as the driver type wdm and mme are other windows driver types 51
- When using sonar le 51
- Asus xonar d1 52
- For other applications that support asio such as wavelab cubase reason winamp etc the setup will be very similar to the above 53
- Rmaa test guide 54
- Setting up xonar d1 audio card 54
- Go to the mixer recording page and select line in as the recording source click reset to make sure the recording volume is on the default highest level 0db this allows you to get realistic output and input quality ratings for the xonar d1 audio card 55
- Mm line cable 55
- Configuration and test with rmaa 57
- Rmaa testing results 62
- Asus xonar d1 63
- Frequency response 63
- From 0 hz to 0 khz db 0 1 0 1 63
- From 40 hz to 15 khz db 0 5 0 1 63
- General performance excellent 63
- Rightmark audio analyzer test 63
- Sampling mode 24 bit 48 khz 63
- Summary 63
- Testing chain external loopback line out line in 63
- Dynamic range 64
- Noise level 64
- Thd noise at 3 db fs 65
- Intermodulation distortion 66
- Stereo crosstalk 66
- Imd swept tones 67
- Troubleshooting 68
- Troubleshooting and faqs 68
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