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1ASUS Xonar U3
1. Package contents
Check your ASUS Xonar U3 external USB audio card package for the following
items:
• ASUS Xonar U3 external USB audio card
• S/PDIF TOSLINK optical adapter x 1
• Driver / User Manual CD x 1
• Quick Start Guide x 1
2. System requirements
To ensure a successful installation of the Xonar U3 external USB audio card, your
computer must meet the following requirements:
• IBM compatible PC with one USB1.1 (or higher) compatible port for the USB
audio device
• Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7 / Vista / XP(32/64bit) / MCE2005
• Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 1.4GHz or AMD Athlon 1400 CPU or faster CPU
• 256 MB DRAM system memory
• 60 MB available HDD space for driver installation package
• CD-ROM drive (or DVD-ROM drive) for software installation
• High-quality headphones or powered analog speakers to enjoy the ultra-high
delity sound of the card
3. Specicationssummary
Category Item Description
Audio Controller
and Codec
Audio Chipset ASUS UA100 USB Audio Chip
Bus Interface
USB Bus USB 2.0 and 1.0 Full-speed compatible
USB Audio Class USB Audio Device Class v1.0 compatible
I/O Ports
Analog Output Jack &
Digital S/PDIF Output
Combo
3.50mm mini analog and digital combo jack*1
(Headphone/Speakers/SPDIF output)
Built-in Headphone
Amplier
98dB SNR
>1.1Vrms full-scale output voltage for >32
ohms load
Frequency Response (-3dB/48KHz):
20~20KHz for 32ohms
Analog Input Jack: 3.50mm mini shared jack *1 (Line-In/Mic-In)
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Содержание
- Second edition v2 october 2012 2
- Contents 3
- Australia statement notice 4
- Canadian department of communications statement 4
- Federal communications commission statement 4
- Notices 4
- License 5
- Safety information 5
- Trademarks 5
- Package contents 7
- Specifications summary 7
- Specificationssummary 7
- System requirements 7
- Card installation 9
- Driver installation 9
- Hardware introduction 10
- Headphone s pdif out port 10
- Light indicator 10
- Mic line in port 10
- Xonar u3 external usb audio card layout 10
- Connecting speakers 11
- For analog spakers 11
- For digital speakers 11
- Plug the optical toslink adapter into the s pdif out port then connect your decoder s s pdif in port to the optical adapter with a toslink optical cable 11
- Spdif out 11
- Speakers 11
- Connecting headphone microphone 12
- Connecting line in audio sources 12
- Xonar audio center 13
- Xonar audio center gui 13
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- Main setting 15
- Sample rate 15
- 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 u3 audio card can support sample rates up to 48khz even if your setting differs from the audio source s sample rate the xonar u3 engine will do super high fidelity sample rate conversion with a double floating point filter 15
- The xonar u3 supports sample rates up to 48khz 15
- Analog out mode 16
- Headphone 16
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- Click this check box to enable s pdif output 17
- Data format 17
- Dolby digital live real time 5 ch encoding 17
- Pcm pulse code modulation which is a typical raw audio 17
- Spdif out ddl 17
- This pull down menu allows you to select one of the following two formats 17
- Xonar u3 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 17
- Audio channels for win7 vista only 18
- 7 virtual speaker shifter 19
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- 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 19
- Click to increase volume move speakers closer click to decrease volume move speakers further away 19
- Expanding upmixing audio to 7 channel surround sound 19
- Make all speakers except subwoofer rotate clockwise 19
- Make all speakers except subwoofer rotate counter clockwise 19
- Manually drag and rotate all speakers except subwoofer 19
- Reset all speaker shifter settings to the defaults 19
- Shiftable virtual speaker positioning allows you to adjust the best sound field easily without moving physical speakers and wires 19
- The 7 virtual speaker shifter has the following major features 19
- This is the default mode that allows you to manually drag each speaker or the listener with your mouse 19
- Virtualizing 7 surround sound over any set of speakers 19
- You can drag each speaker or listener to a different relative position virtually using only your mouse the xonar u3 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 19
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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 20
- Dolby pro logic iix 20
- 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 mp3 cd and tv programs into immersive 5 or 7 channel surround 20
- Reset all settings to the defaults 20
- The dimension parameter fades sounds to the front or rear of the listener 20
- 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 20
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- Dh1 reference room small acoustically damped room 21
- Dh2 livelier room more acoustically live than dh1 21
- Dh3 larger room larger room than dh1 more distant and diffused effect 21
- Dolby headphone 21
- Dolby headphone creates a stunning multi channel surround experience over ordinary stereo headphones for playing 3d 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 21
- 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 21
- Selected only when dolby headphone is enabled 21
- Tick this check box to enable dolby headphone click the textbar to switch the right window to dolby headphone page for manual adjusting 7 virtual speaker shifter and dolby pro logic iix can be 21
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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 22
- Dolby virtual speaker 22
- Dolby virtual speaker provides two modes of virtualization the first is reference mode which virtualizes the missing speakers as in the following picture 22
- 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 mp3 content and when combined with dolby pro logic iix processing delivers a virtual 5 channel surround listening experience from any high quality stereo source 22
- Wide mode virtualizes the necessary speakers and enhances the surround experience as in the following picture 22
- Mixer volume 23
- Playback volume 23
- The mixer page is designed to control the volume for playback and recording on the xonar u3 in addition the xonar u3 also provides a high quality digital monitoring function for hearing the recorded audio from the speakers 23
- Recording monitoring volume 24
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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 23 options in this menu 25
- Effects 25
- Environment effects 25
- Environment effects can be used to create realistic listening experiences that mimic different environments there are a total of 27 environment options which can be applied to all 2d sound sources like music 25
- There are three size settings for each environment large medium and small 25
- These four buttons activate bathroom concert hall underwater and music pub environments respectively 25
- 10 band equalizer 26
- Adjust the gain for each band 30 16khz 26
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- Click this button to delete the parameters from user defined list 26
- Click this button to save the parameters into user defined list 26
- Key in a name for your own user defined equalizer setting 26
- The equalizer can modify the audio output for different frequencies and be used to compensate for deficiencies in your speakers systems there are 12 default patterns and you can also make your own settings 26
- There are 12 available equalizer patterns click one to apply it 26
- You can click this button to apply your own defined parameters saved in the pull down menu 26
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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 27
- Check the box 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 27
- Click the switch to turn on or off the functions on this page 27
- Karaoke magic voice 27
- Microphone echo and magic voice features are not available on windows vista 27
- Reset all settings to the default 27
- Select the mic echo function and adjust the gain for echo signals 30 16khz 27
- The xonar u3 provides powerful features for voip and 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 27
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- Changes your voice pitch to different types for disguising your real voice or just for fun in online chatting 28
- It emulates different background environment effects when you chat online 28
- It produces realistic and dynamic environmental reverberation for your voice in 3d gaming communication 28
- Vocalfx 28
- 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 28
- You can add voip application into voip application list 28
- You can hear your voice from speakers 28
- Check the check box of chatex and magic voice 30
- You can use chatex and magic voice when you chat online 30
- Your voip application has been added into list 30
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- Smart volume normalization 31
- 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 mp3 tv program dvd video and even games with consistent sound level the following graph shows how different signals 1 2 will become the same level for example 10db below full scale after you turn on svn please note that for lower volume music 2 it will become louder when you turn on svn and for higher volume music 1 it will become quieter 31
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- Click this button to enable svn this button is outlined blue when active 32
- 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 32
- 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 32
- Ds3d gx2 and dsp modes 33
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- Directsound 3d game extensions mode to support eax and directsound 3d hardware extensions for lots of directx directsound3d games on windows vista 34
- This mode is set for dvd movie playback 34
- This mode is set for games 34
- 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 34
- This mode is set for music playback 34
- Troubleshooting 35
- Troubleshooting and faqs 35
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