Operation Manual

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O c t a v e 3 A
Use of Audio inputs on Argon Octave 3A
Your Argon Audio Octave 3A has 3 different audio inputs:
1. USB Audio input
2. Analogue 3,5 mm mini jack input
3. Bluetooth Audio, wireless input
Notice; Argon Audio Octave 3A, does not have an input
selector.
All 3 inputs are connected and open at any time when the
speaker is turned on. This means that if you play music via
more than one input at the same time, then the speaker will
play from all inputs at the same time.
Use of USB Audio connection
USB AUDIO
Your Argon Audio Octave 3A is equipped with a USB Audio
Digital input (shown marked no.1 on the drawing)
A USB Audio Digital input means that you can connect a PC
and directly play digital audio content from the PC.
Conversion of the signal from digital to analogue would
normally happen in the PC, but often the D/A conversion
quality in PC’s are of poor standard.
Argon Audio Octave 3A has a quality build in D/A converter
that ensures you optimal sound quality when using USB
digital audio. Using USB Audio ensures you that the D/A
conversion happen in the speaker and not in the PC.
Connecting to a Windows based Laptop/PC
After connecting with USB cable to on your Laptop/PC,
Windows will install the driver by itself.
However, to activate the new device you need to go into
“Sound” settings on your Laptop/PC, either through the
Windows Control Panel or via the “Speaker” icon in the task
bar in Windows.
In Sound setting click
on “USB Audio Dac”
(which is the Octave 3A).
Choose “set as default”
and click OK.
If you want to know more
about USB and USB AUDIO
you can check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
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USB type B