I have it connected to two passive speakers and when I turn this up all the way, the speakers blank out.

and I fear is going to damage my speakers and anger my neighbors

This is a great device for portable studio quality audio and beaming audio to it to play loudly on passive banana-plug type speakers

The X7 offers a surround DSP, desktop DAC, desktop headphone amp, passive speaker amp [!], and beam forming microphone

In order to get it to work this way you must use "5.1" mode and disable the speakers you don't have

highly recommended if u like to use it with passive speaker for personal listening

This is amazing and sounds great paired to a set of E-MU XM7 passive bookshelf speakers.

I really didn't expect a passive speaker setup to sound better than the Onkyo THX HTIB

I was looking to drive a pair of passive speakers and send surround signal to a pair of powered surround speakers at the same time, so this unit is perfect for my needs

And yup, the passive speaker amp works well, but I found a cool use for it... check the video to see!

I've reached out to [email protected] to see if we could work out a

This worked well, since my sub is an M&K