Its a sweet set up, congrats!

You lucky duck! I’d love to hear the KLH one of these days!

Thank you! I have yet to hear the Meta’s, they’re hard to come by for reviews but I’ll keep trying! I’m curious to see how they pair!

I have the ls50s with this amp. Truly epic.

Thanks for watching!

Haha that’s awesome!!

Speaker pairing with this unit seems to be of the utmost importance. The ‚laid back‘ ‚vintage‘ Cambridge sound. They describe it as musicality. It goes well with more dynamic and clear sounding speakers. Not flat and overly analytical but more on the slightly brighter side of highs and more dynamic in the midrange. Find a good pairing with these thoughts in mind and you will never spend another thought on tone control.

Well said!

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Hey thanks for watching! I haven’t heard the Magnepan’s myself, so the preouts will most likely come in handy! Lol

Also take a look at the Rotel 1592mkii.

That’s a sweet set up!

Cool! How is the 35? Maybe one day I can get ahold of one for a listen!

That would be great! I assume it has a similar sound but with only 35 watts. It pairs very well with the Klipsch RP-600Ms using a bluesound node 2i as Dac/streamer. Honestly, it's all I need but I do like the looks of the CXN and CXA-81. Btw, great job with these reviews. They are presented in a way I can follow without having to listen about all the micro details I really don't care about. Thank you.

@@dodpr thanks for watching! Much appreciated!

It's great!

Hi there, I purchased the same via their eBay sales. Does yours have a humming noise from within the amplifier? Thanks in advance.🙏

@@Althemusicman1 no I don’t have any humming noise!

Yes that review is going live soon!

Cool! How do you have the 81 connected, and what do you use to manage volume?

@@0102studio I set the volume on full on the 81. Calibrate the 70s with Audyssey. Then manually set the volume level's for each speaker. The only small ussue is i have to put a beer mat on the 81 front display. The volume and power on both remotes controls both.

@@alanjipy55 the remote control controlling both units drives me nuts! One of them always turns on! Lol

@@0102studio Yeah. It drove me nuts when the nephew came here once. He was turning the music up on the 81 with the 70s remote. i was turning it back down with the 81 remote Lol. I still use the 81 as a stand alone amp for 2 channel music.

It works wonderfully with the 606 S3. I reviewed those very speakers too!

More power. Better looking. More flexible.

I can’t wait to hear the Edge amp!

The Edges are a completely different game - think that same British sound and then add that same Cambridge sound then ahem - amplify it - then stretch it wider, then taller, then push it back and bring it forwards at the same time whilst separating each and every instrument and vocal - my first amp back in 1987 was a Cambridge - tiny little thing - but I loved the way it just fizzed along to vinyl with no drama so when the Edges came out I had to have them. Instead I didn't buy one. I bought three - 1 NQ and 2 Monos - hooked them up to my monstrously tall Monitor Audio Platinum 500II's (Google those as they are rare beasts) and reached my own personal music nirvana. However I also know that things have moved on a bit from then and I reckon the streaming angle on the NQ might be a bit dated - but so long as I don't care I won't change.

@@nelsonclub7722 woah! That is quite the set up!

@@0102studio It is - I was very lucky in that during the late 80's I was given the pleasure of selling hi-end hi-fi - I had three interests at that time cars, cameras and collecting 2nd hand speakers - Hi-Fi as a job was brilliant but then it becomes boring after a while - like any industry I suppose - you are over immersed - so when I left I became a photographer and 40 years later no longer care for cameras - but recently I rediscovered myself with music and went on a mission to 'do it once and do it properly' so that's what I did - I didn't want to become 'that guy' who tweaks, fiddles and seeks for betterment when you already have something amazing - or someone who becomes bored after ten minutes of listening to their system - as for cars - well they have been a money pit and I have now given them up too; instead choosing to shoot them for magazines - but music is my first true love and so whilst I am an average citizen of average means and the children have now left home I indulged quite heavily - however not as heavily as some might think - all the stuff I own was bought second hand - and it all just works exactly as it should and exactly as it was intended and more importantly than anything; exactly as I like it- I do say to other people "you can put your system first, so long as you are putting the music first!" Good stuff

@@0102studio They are all good - all of them - and I don't want to hear anything else - however I suspect there might be better streaming options out there - the nice thing about the Edge amps is that they are daisy chainable - got a set of speakers with two sets of binding posts - why not get four monos and go active!!!!!! -You can certainly Bi-Amp the Edges- I may not do that as I have a lady in the house and I already am on thin ice with speakers that are a bit - shall we say - dominating - word of note - Edges get hot - so hiding them in cabinets is a no-no. I am thinking of getting two Monitor Audio subs though....... There is no end is there - I though there was but there just isn't. Lastly being a very lucky boy at the tender age of 18 I got to hear a very high end system a pair of Infinity IRSV's - look those up - pumped by 4 MarK Levinson Mono's piped into an Audio Research SP9 Pre-amp Krell this and Michell Deck that. That was when a relatively unknown artist at the time by the name of Tracy Chapman punched me in stomach, smashed me over the head with her guitar and completely won me over with 'For My Lover' forever and a sound I will never own. But I think I got close - and as an aside I noticed that Paul from PS Audio has left the company to work with Genesis who have just re-invented the very same IRSV' with the original designer proving if nothing else there is no hope for me, or any of us, at all especially when I consider that if I had saved all the money I wasted on stupid old cars that were too worn out to work i might actually have been able to own a pair - if not a house which would fit them!!! You do need a very big house, very big!!

Hi! I have yet to hear the Klipsch. Hopefully soon!

It pays to always have a listen for yourself! Glad you’ve found a set up you enjoy!

I agree. I bought a Harman Kardon for my Cornwalls and no longer need a sub. The vintage amps have more weight to the bass. Maybe because of Lower damping but it works for me.

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@@george_ury ?

I think its my eqing tbh. Still needs work!

I own the cxa60, and still love it. Its in silver and matches my cxnv2, so I’m not changing them out anytime soon. Stick with the 60 if you like it, and if you need more power use the preouts.

80 watts seems to be the common power output at this tier.

I wouldn’t get hung up on power. The CXA81 has a large transformer providing steady current. It excels at current delivery at this price

@@andrewgorenc9160 this.

It’s not the power rating, look at the size of the transformer. This amp delivers a lot of current and sounds very muscular, more like 160 watts per channel with 8 ohm speakers.