Asus Xonar - Phoebus and Z906

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DexterGX

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Hello! Today my new sound card arrived ( Asus Xonar - Phoebus), i have a Logitech Z906 sound system, and i'm using a SPDIF cable.

Now i have a few questions, please help me with them all.

1st, The sound card is 7.1, i use a SPDIF cable, is it automatically set to 5.1 ?

2nd, What Sample Rate should i use? And Why?
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Can you please explain a bit more about Sample Rates?
EDIT: When it's set to 192 KHZ , i feel that the sound is a bit laggy.

3rd, Can you help me with some setups for Games, Movies and Music please?
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4th, how do i check if the sound card is processing the sound and not the sound system?

Thanks for the answers!




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stefsom

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1. Set your sound to 5.1 and you'll be fine.
2.In games you should use 48khz and listening to music 44.1 khz.
3.Some music is in 96khz or even 192 khz only choose those when you need it.
 
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gamerk316

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SPDIF is limited to 5.1 BEST CASE. And even then, because you are stuck using Dolby/DTS, you lose a lot of audio quality.

Really, there is no reason to get a soundcard to use the optical output. Quality wise, you're getting the same audio fidelity that you got with onboard. Soundcards are designed around their analog outputs. If you can connect via analog, do so.

Also, the reason 192KHz is laggy is because its not supported over SPDIF. Its probably being down-sampled somewhere in the audio drivers, which is likely the cause of the audio latency,
 
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