HiFier Serenade

Configuration

1. Headphone: Headphone connectors. HIFIER Serenade features 1 stereo headphone output (1/4” TRS).
   
   
2. Line Out: Line level analog signal output connectors (RCA). The signal from selected sound source is sent to external equipments (for example, amplifier) in analog type through these two connectors. User can connect to other equipment’s Line In from here. When you connect to speaker directly, the speaker must be active. Or you have to connect to amplifier before connecting to passive speakers. Red one is right channel and white one is left channel.
   
   
3. S/PDIF Out: Digital signal output connectors. The signal playback in PC can be sent out to external decoder in digital form through these two S/PDIF outputs. HIFIER PCI features both coaxial and optical connectors to connect to different external equipments. S/PDIF Out supports transferring digital non-audio signal. (Ex: AC3 and DTS) These two connections are not available when HIFIER is on stand-alone mode.

Installation

Hardware installation

1. Make sure PC power is switched off for the installation. When taking out the PCI main card, please be careful not to touch any components on the board. Then plug the PCI main card into PCI slot properly and fix it with screw.
   
   
2. Connect all of your equipments to HIFIER Serenade one by one, and finish the installation.

Software installation

1. Turn on PC when hardware installation completed. Windows will find a new hardware when it finishes boot-up procedure. Please select “Cancel” when the “Found New Hardware Wizard” is started.

2. Please insert the attached driver CD into CD-ROM drive. The auto start program will start shortly.

3. Please choose “Install driver and control panel” and the installer will launch the driver installation.

4. Select “Next” in this step.

5. Select “Next” and the installer starts to install driver and control panel.

6. When you see this dialog window pop up, it means the installation has finished. Please select “Finish” to complete software installation.

7. After the installation you will see the information shown as below. You can ignore it as it will be closed automatically shortly.

When the software installation has been finished, there will be a short cut icon of HIFIER control panel on the Windows desktop. You can start up HIFIER control panel by double clicking on that icon.

In addition, there will be a small icon of HIFIER control panel on task bar tray when you start HIFIER control panel. Please right click on that small icon and you can see some options as below.

1. Language: User can select the display language of HIFIER control panel here.
   
   
2. AutoRun: If you check this item, HIFIER control panel will be loaded automatically every time the Windows starts.
   
   
3. Show: Display or hide HIFIER control panel.
   
   
4. Exit: Close and un-load HIFIER control panel.

Software Uninstallation:

If it’s necessary to remove HIFIER control panel, please go to “Start \ Program Files \ HIFIER \ Uninstall HIFIER” and remove it.

Note, please exit HIFIER control panel before you uninstall it.

1. Select “Next” to uninstall HIFIER control panel.

2. Please wait for a moment for un-installation to be finished. Click “Finish” to complete the un-installation.

HIFIER control panel

HIFIER control panel offers graphic interface for user to control and adjust. Besides the volume control, we also add many sound effectors. Users can adjust the effectors and get the sound they want.

As long as it’s continuous rotating knob in HIFIER control panel, users can resume to default setting by right clicking on that knob.

HIFIER control panel will record all the settings before being closed and applies those recorded settings for the next start up.

There are 4 pages in HIFIER control panel. Users can click the buttons on the right side of the panel to change to different pages. The items and functions of each page are as following descriptions.

1. Main: All of the items in this page are related to input and output signal volume control. This page is unavailable and will be replaced by system mixer under Vista.

• Playback / Master Volume: Master volume control.
• Playback / Master Volume / Mute: Mute button of Master Volume.
• Playback / Wave / Volume: WAV device volume control.
• Playback / Wave / Balance: Right and left channel volume control of WAV device.
• Playback / Wave / Mute: Mute button of Wave.
• Playback / SW Synth / Volume: SW Synth device volume control.
• Playback / SW Synth / Balance: Right and left channel volume control of SW Synth device.
• Playback / SW Synth / Mute: Mute button of SW Synth.
• Playback / MIC / Mute: Mute button of MIC input monitoring. (unavailable)
• Recording / MIC IN: MIC IN gain control. (unavailable)
• Recording / MIC IN / Mute: Mute button of MIC IN, it will stop input signal when it’s pressed down. (unavailable)

2. Effects: Users can add different EQ filters and environment effects to the sound.

• Dry Sound: Enable or disable all the items in this page. This button has to be pressed to enable those options before they can be adjusted.
  
  In this page, users need to press “ON” button first of each section to enable the options to be adjusted. Every time you can only enable one of “Treble\ Bass”, “Region Style”, “EQ Preset” and “Equalizer” sections.
  
  
• Environment: There are many presets for user to select, just click the buttons between up and down arrows on the right side. The option in the center of screen is the applied environment effect.
  
  
• Room space: This section’s items need to co-work with “Environment” effects. HIFIER control panel will add more or less effect to sound by the room space you select. Bedroom represents small space, Entertainment Room is middle space and Living Room is large space.

3. Digital Output: Enable or disable the digital output function and change the sampling rate of output signal.

• Enable Digital Output: Press down this button will enable digital output function.
  Users can only adjust the rotary switch on the right side of this page to select sampling rate of output signal. Each option represent sampling rate as follows.
  
  CD: 44.1KHz
  Theater: 48KHz
  HIFI: 96KHz
  Professional: 192KHz

4. Info

There are some information about the system and driver in this page. Users can click the web address to visit our website.

ASIO driver

We also provide ASIO driver for HIFIER PCI exclusive use. Users can use the exclusive ASIO driver in those software players which support ASIO driver.

This is one thing worth to note, if you select to use ASIO driver in software player, the Master Volume in HIFIER control panel will then be the only one item available. (All other volume control items will no longer be valid) The volume control of the software player will be the same condition as HIFIER control panel.

HIFIER PCI Technical Information