And that's why I knocked a quarter point off my out-of-box review score; that paragraph is the only one in the manual about the IR, and it's VERY ambiguous as to what the functionality is.

Reading it LITERALLY, I should be able to plug the emitter STRAIGHT into the port. (ie, it should be a POWERED port)

But we know that's not the case now, obviously, since I was told it only outputs a PASSIVE signal. This seem to be an industry standard, so I have no issues with it, but I want to confirm that one can plug one end of a STEREO wire into that IR OUTPUT port, and the other end into the RECEIVER IN port on the Xantech, and the 9x0 Outlaw will behave just like the Xantech receiver module that sells for $45.

.. aren't we having such fun here?! =D

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