Xonar DX problems

Aelius · 2009-03-19

I bought myself a $2000 gaming rig and everything seems to work great except for my sound card. My Xonar DX is acting really weird. First of all, for some reason, it considers a 5.1 setup to be Left Front, Center, Right Front, Left Side and Right Side. So I had to change the position of my rear-speaker jack to the side-speaker one. And then it gets worse. Left-front sound comes out of only my center. Center comes out of my left-front. I don't know where the hell my right-front comes out of, it's just a faint sound. Maybe my subwoofer? Subwoofer sound comes out of my right-front. The back two speakers seem to be fine. I have Z-5500s. When I use the remote with the Z-5500s to test the speakers, the sound all comes out of the right places no problem. Yes, I installed the drivers that come with the speakers. Hell, I even uninstalled and installed them again. Yes, I disabled the on-board sound. I have Windows Vista 64-bit.

d3v0

· #2 · Mar 19, 2009

How securely is the floppy 4-pin power connected? I considered superglueing it, since it is so loose and has such a hard time making contact.

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Juggalo23451

· #3 · Mar 19, 2009

How do you have you z-5500 hooked up are you using optical cable or the green,black, and orange cable.

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Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 19, 2009

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Originally Posted by Juggalo23451

How do you have you z-5500 hooked up are you using optical cable or the green,black, and orange cable.

I don't know what optical is, but I have green black and orange cables; the only cables going into or out of both my sound card and my speakers.

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· #5 · Mar 19, 2009

I would use optical cable, Best way to hook up to the z-5500 and best sound quality to.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/su...02&cp_id=10229

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http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

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d3v0

· #6 · Mar 19, 2009

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I don't know what optical is

oh lawd

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Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 19, 2009

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Originally Posted by d3v0

oh lawd

Oh don't give me that. We were all unaware of what an optical cable is at one time or another.

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Originally Posted by Juggalo23451

I would use optical cable, Best way to hook up to the z-5500 and best sound quality to.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/su...02&cp_id=10229

adapter
http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

Great, I'll probably get one. Still though, not sure that will solve my problem.

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· #8 · Mar 19, 2009

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Oh don't give me that. We were all unaware of what an optical cable is at one time or another.

I just like saying oh lawd, and I didn't know about it either a few months ago. I like the Z-5500s specifically for their optical connection though, so I found you not knowing as weird.

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