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HD Audio PCI-e

V2.0

SC808

HD Audio

PCI-e Audio Device

User’s Manual

Summary of Contents for SC808

Page 1: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 1 SC808 HD Audio PCI e Audio Device User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...UCTION 15 OPEN SC808 HD AUDIO PCI E AUDIO DEVICE SOFTWARE CPL 15 XEAR AUDIO CENTER FUNCTION INTRODUCTION 20 Select a Default Device 20 Function Pop Menu 22 Xear 3D EX 24 Xear Pro ASIO 25 Function Page Area 26 Audio Status Panel 27 Profile Panel 29 SPEAKERS DEVICE FUNCTION INTRODUCTION 30 Volume control Page 31 Speaker Setting Page 32 Sample Rate Page 33 Equalizer 34 Environment Effects 36 7 1 Virt...

Page 3: ...nt 57 Xear Dynamic Bass 58 Xear Smart Volume 59 Xear Voice Clarity 60 SPDIF OUT DEVICE FUNCTION INTRODUCTION 61 Volume control Page 62 Sample Rate Page 63 DESKTOP MICROPHONE DEVICE FUNCTION INTRODUCTION 64 Volume control Page 65 Sample Rate Page 66 Xear SingFX Page 67 Noise Reduction Page 68 INFORMATION PAGE INTRODUCTION 69 TRAY ICON FUNCTION INTRODUCTION 70 APPENDIX A MULTI LINGUAL SUPPORTING LIS...

Page 4: ...n radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed or used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communication However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try and correct the interference by one or more of the following measures...

Page 5: ...nd Optical to Hi Fi AV receiver Another mode is multimedia mode which provides 8 channel outputs and Microphone Input from bundled daughter board The bundled Xear Audio Center software provides many features such as environment effect flex bass II Xear Audio Brilliant and Xear Dynamic Bass Smart Volume etc to enhance the audio listening experience Moreover SC808 comes with a daughter board for Mic...

Page 6: ... Compatible with Microsoft Windows 10 Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows XP Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent processor 2 2 GHz or faster Available PCI e slot 100MB Hard Disk space 4GB System Memory Available CD ROM or DVD ROM Drive for installation ...

Page 7: ...Line Output R Coaxial Output Optical Output ATX Power Multi Channel HD Audio Figure of SC808 Boards and Connections SC808 Main Board SC808 Daughter Board Microphone Input Front Output R L Rear Output R L Center Subwoofer Output Side Output R L Multi Channel HD Audio ...

Page 8: ...ptical Connect to the Optical of Digital Amplifier or Decoder CON1 ATX Power 4P Connect to Power Supply JP1 Multi Channel Connect to Daughter board for multi channel application JP2 HDA HD Audio Connect to the Headphone Microphone of case or Daughter board NO Daughter board Connections PJ1 Microphone In 3 5mm to external microphone PJ2 Front Output 3 5mm to the optical input of Digital Amplifier o...

Page 9: ... separate the phone out and Line out manually from software It also means you can only choose one of them from control panel any times and it is only works for Windows 10 8 7 and XP For other OS you can only use Line Output For more detail please refer to Software session Xear Audio Center Enable Phone Output Or Enable Phone Output ...

Page 10: ...SC808 to a PCI e slot NOTE Please DO connect the ATX Power cable for SC808 Card Power It means the SC808 CANNOT work without ATX Power Connected SC808 can fulfill three kinds of scenario for different applications Stereo Music for listening music in high definition quality 1 Connect ATX Power 2 Close Case and boot the system ...

Page 11: ...ary Step 2 Connect cable bundled from Case with external Headset port to HDA connector 3 Close Case and reboot the system Stereo Music with Multi Channel output and Microphone Input to enjoy the high definition stereo audio and multi channel home theater experience 1 Install SC808 main board and daughter board 2 Connect ATX Power Necessary Step 3 Connect cables from SC808 Main Board to Daughter Bo...

Page 12: ... Cover NOTE 1 U3 U4 are pre amplifier of Line Out due to the OPs support both Left and Right Channels for each one please do change the same model for better audio performance 2 U2 is pre amplifier of Phone Out 3 However the audio path is from U3 U4 for each channel and next to U2 therefore change U3 U4 will also affect the audio performance of Phone Out U3 U4 U2 ...

Page 13: ...t Driver installation you can see a welcome window Press Next button and follow the instruction of the popped windows until the end Allow Computer restart to activate the driver Notice Ensure that you have plug in the PCI E audio card before installing High Definition Audio Device drivers Otherwise driver installation error may occur Before installing Uninstalling you should close all audio progra...

Page 14: ...ninstall a program item from Windows Control Panel Select Xear Audio Center item then click the Uninstall button For Windows 10 8 7 Follow the instructions of the popped windows until the un installation finishes Restart your computer to completely remove driver For Windows XP Windows 10 8 7 ...

Page 15: ...anced Audio Device CPL Xear Audio Center icon on the system tray bar Double clicking on the icon to open CPL software Windows 10 8 7 Tray Icon XP Tray Icon The first time Xear Audio Center is opened you can see a message as shown below You can get the information about how to use Xear Audio Center If you don t want to see this window next time check the Don t show this message again option ...

Page 16: ... show on screen if the daughter board or extension HDA from system case are not connected Stereo Music Scenario only install the SC808 main board Stereo Music with Microphone Input Scenario install the SC808 main board and connect the HD Audio cable from system case parts of the system may not offer this feature ...

Page 17: ...bundled cables to connect these two boards Note There are two Speakers Icons in the left menu the top one is for multi channel Output configuration and second one is for Stereo Output configuration The detail setting between these icons is also different NOTE To simple your reading this manual will combine Stereo Music and Multi Channel in one Session ...

Page 18: ...Audio PCI e V2 0 18 If the tray icon does not appear in your system tray please go to the Windows control panel and double click the Xear Audio Center CPL icon to open it For Windows 10 8 7 For Windows XP ...

Page 19: ...19 How to make CPL icon visible in the system tray 1 Open Xear Audio Center 2 Click on the setting button to open the setting window 3 Check Show System Tray Icon The Xear Audio center icon will be shown in the system tray ...

Page 20: ...ce Before the Audio device playback or recording operation starting it needs to select a device as the default device Windows OS will assign the system resource to the default device Set Default Output Device Speaker Click mouse left button on the check box of the speaker device icon to set the default device is Speakers Set Default Input Device Desktop Microphone ...

Page 21: ...ut device and must connect to HD Audio connector of system case or daughter board Function Behavior Only one audio output device one of two Speakers or SPDIF Out can be set as the default audio output device in Windows 10 8 7 There is only one audio Input device Desktop Microphone set as the default audio input device in Windows 10 8 7 ...

Page 22: ...hone and SPDIF Out etc by this master volume bar Mute Un Mute the volume You can mute un mute volume of all output devices by the mute or Un mute button Function Pop Menu Xear Audio Center provides several sound effects there is a pop menu for each output input device and you can entry into the sound effect page to enjoy your music movie and gaming ...

Page 23: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 23 How to open pop menu I Double click left mouse on Device Icon II One click left mouse button on Device Icon Device Icon Pop Menu ...

Page 24: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 24 Xear 3D EX Function Introduction C Media Xear3D EX technology provides a complete and fully backward compatible 3D audio interface for Windows 10 8 7 ...

Page 25: ... interface between a software application and a computer s sound card Recommend player Foobar2000 Face Lift CPL supports launch ASIO 2 2 control panel ASIO is abbreviated from Audio Stream Input Output Audio Stream Input Output ASIO are a computer sound card driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg ...

Page 26: ...D Audio PCI e V2 0 26 Function Page Area When you click one of the function items in a pop menu a function page as below will be shown as below Choose the Equalizer Page Entry the Equalizer Function Page ...

Page 27: ...ice only 4 Sample Rate It indicates the Playback sample rate for default output device 5 Audio Output effect indicator It indicates the playback sound effect status Abbreviation Sound effect EQ Equalizer EM Environment Effects VSS 7 1 Virtual Speaker Shifter FB Flex Bass II KS Xear SingFX Key Shifting VF Xear SingFX Vocal Fading XS Xear Surround Speaker AB Xear Audio Brilliant DB Xear Dynamic Bass...

Page 28: ...ates the playback sound effect status Abbreviation Sound effect SF Xear SingFX Microphone Echo SF Xear SingFX Magic Voice NR Noise Reduction 7 Switch to Profile Panel button Click on this button will switch status bar to Profile panel Refer to Profile Panel ...

Page 29: ...e by these profile buttons When the preset mode is active there is a Green check symbol shown on the right down corner 2 Add Profile You can adjust specific sound effects Ex EQ EM etc settings and click this add profile button to name and to create a user define mode 3 Delete Profile You can click this button to delete the user define mode 4 Switch Button This switches the Profile panel to Audio S...

Page 30: ...kers Device function introduction To Access function menu please right click the Speaker Output device icon this will provide you with the additional feature and sound effects Speakers for Multi Channel Speakers for Stereo Music ...

Page 31: ...all channels Front It can adjust volume level for front channel 2 Left Right Channel Lock Front Cen LFE Rear Side Clicking on the lock un lock button can sync left channel and right channel 3 Mute Un mute Clicking on the mute un mute button can mute all channels 4 dB Input Area Front Cen LFE Rear Side You can directly fill in a dB value into this text box to set the volume level 1 3 2 4 ...

Page 32: ...FE Center Channel Swap When this item enable it can swap the audio stream between Center LFE 2 Speaker Test Click the Speaker Test button the CPL will auto play test sound in order Front Left Front Right Back Left Back Right Center Bass NOTE Due to Stereo Music mode has two channels output only this feature is disappear from the pop menu of second speakers 1 2 ...

Page 33: ...ple Rate button 44 1 KHz set playback sample rate to 44 1 KHz 48 KHz set playback sample rate to 48 KHz 88 2 KHz set playback sample rate to 88 2 KHz 96 KHz set playback sample rate to 96 KHz 192 KHz set playback sample rate to 192 KHz 2 Bit Depth button 16 bit set playback bit depth to 16 Bit 24 bit set playback bit depth to 24 Bit 1 2 ...

Page 34: ... 1 EQ enable disable switch Click this check box to enable disable EQ 2 Preset mode Select a pre set mode of the equalizer that is designed accordingly There are 12 preset modes such as Bass Treble Live Rock Jazz etc 3 EQ band controller You can change the gain setting for each band 30 60 120 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K 4 Manual mode You can change the gain setting for each band and then give it a 1 2...

Page 35: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 35 name in the A Input Field and then click to add your new setting into the B Manual Mode List Click to delete settings A Input Field B Manual mode List Set to Manual Mode ...

Page 36: ... reflection and reverberation 1 Environment Effect enable disable switch Click on this check box to enable disable Environment Effect 2 Environment Effect mode Click on an Environment effect button or pull the dropdown list to choose an Environment effect 3 Zoom Size You can change the Room Size to simulate a larger or smaller space 1 2 3 ...

Page 37: ...witch Click on this check box to enable disable 7 1 Virtual Speaker 2 Auto Rotation Mode The virtual speakers rotate clockwise or counterclockwise slowly 3 Manually Rotation Mode Use mouse to rotate the virtual speakers on the screen manually 4 Manual Shifting Free Moving Mode Use pointer and click and drag to move the locations of the individual virtual speakers 5 Reset 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 6 ...

Page 38: ...t 6 Virtual Speaker L R Ls Rs Lb Rb C W Each virtual speaker virtualizes one channel of the 7 1 channel speakers in the real world 7 Volume Control Each virtual speaker virtualizes one channel of the 7 1 channel speakers in the real world 8 Volume indicator Indicate value for each channel ...

Page 39: ...f stereo music content ex Mp3 WMA CD Audio and transfer to subwoofer or each speaker 1 Flex Bass II enable disable switch Click on this check box to enable disable Flex Bass II 2 Cut Off Frequency The cutting range of low frequency is from 50Hz to 250Hz 3 Bass Level The bass level range is from 12 to 12dB 4 Speaker Size L R Ls Rs Lb Rb C W Small Speaker without bass 1 2 3 4 5 ...

Page 40: ...re obvious and reverberation from subwoofer Large Speaker with bass When the speaker size is setting to large you can hear the sound resonance more obvious and reverberation from itself 5 Speaker Diagram You also can check the speaker size from this home theater diagram Small Speaker Large Speaker ...

Page 41: ...n 1 Key Shifting switch It provides the key change function there are 4 shifting up steps and 4 shifting down steps you can use slide bar to change the key level 2 Vocal Fading It provides the vocal removal function for any stereo music content ex Mp3 WMA CD you can use slider bar to change the vocal fading level 1 2 ...

Page 42: ...urround listening experience by 2 channel Stereo Speaker device 1 Enable Xear Surround Click this check box to enable the Xear Surround sound effect 2 Adjust Sound Field Expansion Speaker Angle Xear Surround Speaker provides the Sound Filed Expansion and Speaker Angle for user fine tune and it can improve the Listening experience 1 2 2 ...

Page 43: ...t can restore the clarity and details of compressed audio in music movies and games MP3 WMA AAC AC3 etc 1 Enable Audio Brilliant Click this check box to enable the Xear Audio Brilliant 2 Brilliant Level You can increase decrease the Brilliant Level 3 Reset Return to default value 1 2 3 ...

Page 44: ...mall speaker drivers by applying psychoacoustic techniques 1 Enable Dynamic Bass Click this check box to enable the Xear Dynamic Bass effect 2 Bass Level You can increase decrease the Bass Level 3 Cut Off Frequency You can adjust the Cut Off Frequency range to make the bass effect more strong 4 Reset Return to default value 1 2 4 3 ...

Page 45: ...c to reduce the frequencies required for volume adjustments on Televisions Docking Speakers PCs and other consumer products 1 Enable Smart Volume Click this check box to enable the Xear Smart Volume 2 Volume Level You can set normalize sound level 3 Mode You can choose Music mode and Speech Mode for your needs 1 2 3 ...

Page 46: ...n VOIP game music or movies without suppressing or changing other audio 1 Enable Voice Clarity Click this check box to enable the Xear Voice Clarity effect 2 Voice Clarity Level You can increase the volume Level to make the voice more clear 3 Noise Suppression for communication You can eliminate the background noise 4 Reset Return to default volume 1 2 4 3 ...

Page 47: ...tion Xear Surround Max can expand stereo audio content to each output channel When you playing mp3 music file and enable this function you can hear music from each speaker 8 speakers 1 Enable Voice Clarity Click this check box to enable the Xear Surround Max 1 ...

Page 48: ...udio PCI e V2 0 48 Headphone Out Device function introduction To Access function menu please right click the Headphone Output device icon this will provide you with the additional feature and sound effects ...

Page 49: ...phone It can adjust volume level for Headphone device 2 Left Right Channel Lock Clicking on the lock un lock button it can lock left channel and right channel to sync L R channel 3 Mute Un mute Clicking on the mute un mute button it can mute all channels 4 dB Input Area You can directly fill in a dB value into this text box to set the volume level 1 3 4 2 ...

Page 50: ... Audio PCI e V2 0 50 Headphone Settings Page Function Introduction You can play a test sound for headphone in this page 1 Headphone Test Click the Headphone Test button the CPL will auto play test sound 1 ...

Page 51: ...mple Rate button 44 1 KHz set playback sample rate to 44 1 KHz 48 KHz set playback sample rate to 48 KHz 88 2 KHz set playback sample rate to 88 2 KHz 96 KHz set playback sample rate to 96 KHz 192 KHz set playback sample rate to 192 KHz 2 Bit Depth button 16 bit set playback bit depth to 16 Bit 24 bit set playback bit depth to 24 Bit 1 2 ...

Page 52: ... Click on this check box to enable disable EQ 2 Preset mode Select a pre set mode for equalizer that is designed accordingly There are 12 preset modes such as Bass Treble Live Rock Jazz etc 3 EQ band controller You can change the gain setting for each band 30 60 120 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K 4 Manual mode You can change the gain value of each band and then give it a name to the A Input Field and the...

Page 53: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 53 new setting into the B customization EQ list Click to delete settings Set to Manual Mode B Manual mode List A Input Field ...

Page 54: ...d reflection and reverberation 1 Environment Effect enable disable switch Click on this check box to enable disable Environment Effect 2 Environment Effect mode Click on an Environment effect button or drop the dropdown list to choose a Environment effect 3 Zoom Size You can change the Room Size to simulate a larger or smaller space 1 2 3 ...

Page 55: ...1 Key Shifting switch It provides the key change function there are shifting up 4 steps and shifting down 4 steps you can use slider bar to change the key level 2 Vocal Fading It provides the vocal removing function for any stereo music content ex Mp3 WMA CD you can use slider bar to change the vocal fading level 1 2 ...

Page 56: ...ater surround listening experience by 2 channel Stereo Headphone device 1 Enable Xear Surround Click this check box to enable the Xear Surround sound effect 2 Room Size Xear Surround Headphone provides 3 room size modes and one anechoic room You can change the Room Size Button to simulate the difference room size and room type 1 2 ...

Page 57: ...t can restore the clarity and details of compressed audio in music movies and games MP3 WMA AAC AC3 etc 1 Enable Audio Brilliant Click this check box to enable the Xear Audio Brilliant 2 Brilliant Level You can increase decrease the Brilliant Level 3 Reset Return to default value 1 2 3 ...

Page 58: ...mall speaker drivers by applying psychoacoustic techniques 1 Enable Dynamic Bass Click this check box to enable the Xear Dynamic Bass effect 2 Bass Level You can increase decrease the Bass Level 3 Cut Off Frequency You can adjust the Cut Off Frequency range to make the bass effect more strong 4 Reset Return to default value 1 2 4 3 ...

Page 59: ...c to reduce the frequencies required for volume adjustments on Televisions Docking Speakers PCs and other consumer products 1 Enable Smart Volume Click this check box to enable the Xear Smart Volume 2 Volume Level You can set normalize sound level 3 Mode You can choose Music mode and Speech Mode for your needs 1 2 3 ...

Page 60: ...n VOIP game music or movies without suppressing or changing other audio 1 Enable Voice Clarity Click this check box to enable the Xear Voice Clarity effect 2 Voice Clarity Level You can increase the volume Level to make the voice more clear 3 Noise Suppression for communication You can eliminate the background noise 4 Reset Return to default volume 1 2 3 4 ...

Page 61: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 61 SPDIF Out Device function introduction To Access function menu please right click the SPDIF Output device icon this will provide you with the additional feature and sound effects ...

Page 62: ...r SPDIF Out You can use this bar to increase decrease volume level 2 Left Right Channel Lock Clicking on the Lock Un Lock button can sync the left channel and right channel volume 3 Mute Un mute Clicking on the mute un mute button can mute SPDIF Out 4 dB Input Area You can directly fill in a dB value into this text box to set the volume level 1 2 3 4 ...

Page 63: ...ample Rate button 44 1 KHz set playback sample rate to 44 1 KHz 48 KHz set playback sample rate to 48 KHz 88 2 KHz set playback sample rate to 88 2 KHz 96 KHz set playback sample rate to 96 KHz 192 KHz set playback sample rate to 192 KHz 2 Bit Depth button 16 bit set playback bit depth to 16bit 24 bit set playback bit depth to 24bit 1 2 ...

Page 64: ...D Audio PCI e V2 0 64 Desktop Microphone Device function introduction To Access function menu please right click the Mic in device icon this will provide you with the additional feature and sound effects ...

Page 65: ...1 Volume control bar Mic In It can adjust the volume level of recording 2 Left Right Channel Lock Clicking on the Lock Un Lock button can sync the left channel and right channel volume 3 Mute Un mute Clicking on the Mute Un Mute button can mute all channels 4 dB Input Area You can directly fill in a dB value into this text box to set the volume level 1 2 3 4 ...

Page 66: ...Rate button 44 1 K Hz set recording sample rate to 44 1 KHz 48 K Hz set recording sample rate to 48 KHz 88 2K Hz set recording sample rate to 88 2 KHz 96 K Hz set recording sample rate to 96 KHz 192 K Hz set recording sample rate to 192 KHz 2 Bit Depth button 16 bit set recording bit depth to 16 bit 24 bit set recording bit depth to 24 bit 1 2 ...

Page 67: ...oice effects to simulate some funny voice Only one voice type can be chosen at one time 1 Microphone Echo Click this check box to enable the Microphone echo effect you can use the slide bar to change the echo level 2 Magic Voice mode Monster Carton Male Female Click this check box to enable the Magic Voice effect you can click on the any button to select the magic voice mode 1 2 ...

Page 68: ...Reduction Page Function Introduction Noise Removal effect can be used to attenuate constant background noise such as electric fans or hums 1 Enable Noise Reduction You can click this check box to enable the Noise Reduction effect 1 ...

Page 69: ... PCI e V2 0 69 Information Page Introduction This page lists the driver information and the technology trademark logo You can get both hardware software details and also the legal information references Detail ...

Page 70: ... tray Icon on system tray 1 Open Clicking the Open item will restore the Xear Audio Center 2 Volume Control Clicking the Volume Control item will open the Volume Mixer of Windows OS If you want to separately control the volume of your speakers and other sound devices or programs use this Volume Mixer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...

Page 71: ...dio PCI e V2 0 71 3 Windows Media Player Clicking the Windows Media Player item will open the Microsoft Windows Media Player 4 Sound Recorder Click the Sound Recorder item to open the Windows Sound recorder ...

Page 72: ...s page of Windows OS you can select the working sample rate bit rate I Select the Speakers device and then click the properties button II Click the Advanced tag enter the advanced page and pull the dropdown list to open default format support list as shown in the below diagram ...

Page 73: ...HD Audio PCI e V2 0 73 III Please follow the same procedure to change the Sample Rate Bit Rate of Microphone device on recording tag ...

Page 74: ...n box the Xear Audio center icon will be shown in the system tray II UI Transparent It can adjust transparent of the UI vision III Language Select it can change the UI language Refer to Appendix A IV Don t show start up message it can enable disable the UI start up message 7 Exit Clicking the Exit item will exit the tray Icon from system tray I II II IV ...

Page 75: ...rançais 4 Portuguese Português 5 Spanish Español 6 Russian русский язык 7 Italian Italiano 8 Dutch Nederlands 9 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia 10 Danish Dansk 11 Chinese Traditional 12 Chinese Simplified 13 Korean 한국어 韓國語 14 Japanese 日本語 15 Swedish Svenska 16 Turkish Türkçe 17 Thai ไทย Installing to different country version of operation system can auto detect the language version and show a correct ...

Page 76: ...he installation CD is not for driver installation SC808 design in compliance with Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture UAA it means the SC808 can use Microsoft internal drivers The bundle software will enhance the audio features by install the Xear Audio Center With Xear Audio Center you will add extra features such as Equalizer Environment Effect Virtual Speaker Shifter Flex Bass II Xear SingFX...

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