The CXA61 is a British-made stereo amp delivering 60 watts per channel of pure excitement. It’s a punchy and upfront listen that doesn't sacrifice detail or precision for excitability - so it’s just as much at home in the mosh-pit as it is the conservatoire.
"A solid and classy piece of kit. Stereo imaging is impressive… the CXA61 is a real winner"
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The CXA61 is a British-made stereo amp delivering 60 watts per channel of pure excitement. It’s a punchy and upfront listen that doesn't sacrifice detail or precision for excitability - so it’s just as much at home in the mosh-pit as it is the conservatoire. The all-new CXA61 integrated amplifier is built on the foundations laid (and the Awards won) by the CXA60, but with a fresh and progressive perspective.
• An update to the award-winning CXA60 amplifier
• Little brother to the CXA81
• 60 Watts per channel with Class AB amplification for detailed and powerful audio performance
• High-quality DAC built-in allows you to connect digital sources directly via TOSLINK and Coaxial
• Bluetooth aptX HD built-in for a high-quality wireless connection
• 4 x RCA Analogue connections for all your sources
• Speaker A/B terminals for driving two pairs of speakers simultaneously
• Pre Out for connecting to a power amplifier
• Sub output allows you to connect a subwoofer for deep 2.1 audio
• USB Audio Input accepting up to 32bit/384kHz & DSD 256 digital files from Mac or PC
• Oversized toroidal transformer provides electrical efficiency and super-low levels of distortion
• High-quality 3.5mm headphone socket for private listening
• 3.5mm aux input for smartphone/music player connection
• Control Bus connections plus RS232C, IR input, and Trigger in/out
• Included IR remote control is also compatible with other CX Series devices
• Optional Auto Power Down mode switches the CXA61 to standby after inactivity
User Manual (PDF, 2MB)
"Cambridge Audio’s CXA61 has a tough act to follow. Its direct predecessor, the CXA60, is a multiple Product of the Year winner and has remained one of our go-to recommendations. Look closer at the specification and you’ll notice that Cambridge’s engineers haven’t just been twiddling their collective thumbs for the past four years. There are plenty of detail changes between the two generations of CXA amplifiers."
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"If you liked the way the CXA60 sounded you’ll love the CXA61. The ebullient, front-foot enthusiasm of the older amp hasn’t changed, but is now delivered with even greater clarity, speed and rhythmic snap."
"The CXA61 is potent beyond its 60W and, given suitably talented support, a terrific amplifier, full stop"
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The amplifier is the heart and the engine of any system - and the CXA61 powers your favourite speakers and forms the centre of your musical experience. The CXA61 is designed to bring you closer to the music you love. It’s designed to put you right at the heart of your favourite recordings, telling you the story of every note in the most natural, most effortless, most detailed way imaginable. Analogue or digital, lo-fi or hi-res, the CXA61 is a no-compromise amp that lets the music take you where you want to go.
The CXA61 has been engineered, refined and finessed with only one objective in mind: to deliver the most thrillingly musical sound you’ve ever experienced. Every choice of component, and every engineering decision, has been made in order to minimise colouration of the sound and maximise its accuracy. Cambridge Audio has drawn on every one of its 50 years of experience to make the CXA61 its most accomplished integrated amplifier yet.
An oversized toroidal transformer gives the CXA61 a muscular 60 watts of power for each channel. Painstaking engineering gives it super-low levels of distortion and supreme electrical efficiency. The result is an amplifier with limitless reserves of power, ready to maximise the dynamic potential of any loudspeakers and able to play at any volume level without stress or distortion.
The CXA61 features a reimagined power amp stage with optimised capacitors values, and a revised volume pot designed to offer minimised crosstalk. The result is a clean, short and pure signal path that allows your music unmatched coherence - at any volume.
Because it’s designed to deliver the maximum musical experience no matter where the music is coming from, the CXA61 has an entirely reengineered digital board featuring the industry-standard ESS Sabre ES9010 K2M digital-to-analogue convertor. The CXA61 can bring digital audio files up to state-of-the-art 32bit/384kHz and DSD256 resolutions vividly to life, combining convenience with performance in a way unheard-of until now. Analogue connections will also find a home in the CXA61, with four stereo RCA inputs and a 3.5mm MP3 connection available.
Pair any Bluetooth device to the CXA61 to stream up to aptX HD-quality audio. Because there’s no need to compromise your musical experience when you decide to cut the cord.
Half a decade after the CX range redefined performance at its price point, it’s time to reimagine, reengineer and reinvigorate. The progress made in amplifier technology over the last five years has come at a hardware level - and there’s no updating that over the internet.
Music should never be an afterthought, never side-lined, never just ‘background noise’. But as we entered the age of digital, music became a commodity. Presence was sacrificed in the name of convenience and the importance of sound quality was forgotten. It didn’t have to be.
With the original CX Series, we decided to march to the beat of our own drum. We wanted to show that it was possible to build a system that offered all the convenience and simplicity of digital but made sure that music was placed firmly, squarely, in the centre stage. A system that was precise and detailed. A system that respected music.
For five years, our CX range of two integrated amplifiers, a network audio streamer and a CD transport has been a widely admired, award-winning success story. Five years can be a long time though, and Cambridge Audio isn’t a company to rest on its laurels.
Cambridge Audio wants you to hear your music at its very best, as the artist intended it to be heard, with nothing added, nothing taken away. That’s what we’ve always wanted because that’s what music lovers like us deserve. It’s why we’re constantly experimenting, solving problems and creating new kit. It’s why we’ve been doing what we do for the last 50 years. It’s why we’re always trying to make the listening experience better. Pure.
All Cambridge Audio's research and development take place at their London HQ: where their team of 20 audio engineers create and experiment. The team comprises industrial designers, electrical engineers, coders, QA testers and more who have decades of experience and, together, have created some of the most successful British audio products in the last half-century.
Model Number | CXA-61 |
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RRP | 1,499.00 |
Specs | POWER OUTPUT LOUDSPEAKER IMPEDANCE DAC FREQUENCY RESPONSE ANALOGUE AUDIO INPUTS DIGITAL AUDIO INPUTS COMPATIBILITY BLUETOOTH APTX HD RECEIVER BUILT-IN ROON TESTED OUTPUTS REMOTE CONTROL MAX POWER CONSUMPTION STANDBY POWER CONSUMPTION DIMENSIONS (H X W X D) WEIGHT BOX CONTENTS |