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$1,849.99
80W Integrated Amplifier
Available on backorder
The whole story
The CXA81 is designed to bring your music to life, no matter how it’s stored. So it features an entirely new digital board, including the cutting-edge ESS Sabre ES9016 digital-to-analogue convertor. Which means digital audio files up to a heady 32bit/384kHz, or DSD256, are brought dramatically to life, with every detail and nuance delivered intact and in full. The CXA81 combines unparalleled accuracy with vivid musicality, without sacrificing convenience.
Absolute flexibility
The CXA81 covers all connectivity bases, giving you complete freedom of choice. As well as digital optical and digital coaxial inputs, it features unbalanced stereo RCA inputs alongside balanced XLR sockets – and wireless connectivity via Bluetooth’s cutting-edge aptX HD standard is on board too. So there’s no need to compromise on performance in the name of convenience.
Power and control
Thanks to numerous improvements and upgrades – and thanks to an over-specified toroidal transformer – the CXA81 delivers a prodigious 80 watts of power per channel. This means the CXA81 has complete authority over even the most demanding speakers, it means big dynamic shifts in music are handled with total control, and it means the whole musical picture is available no matter if you’re playing at discreet background levels or at party-time volumes.
Unmatched sonic integrity
At the heart of the CXA81 beats a completely reimagined and redesigned power amplifier stage with optimised capacitor values. The resulting sound is pristine but not clinical, with unrivalled musical coherence no matter the source.
Technical
- 80W RMS into 8 Ohms, 120W RMS into 4 Ohms
- ESS Sabre ES9010K2M
- <5Hz– 60kHz +/-1dB
- 1x balanced XLR, 4 x RCA, 1 x 3.5mm MP3 input (front panel)
- 1 x S/PDIF coaxial, 2 x TOSLINK optical, 1 x USB audio, Bluetooth via BT100 (not supplied)
- TOSLINK optical, S/PDIF coaxial, USB 1.0 and 2.0, BT100 Bluetooth receiver
- Speakers A+B, 3.5mm headphone, Preamp Output, Subwoofer Output
- 750W
- <0.5W
- 115 x 430 x 341mm (4.5 x 16.9 x 13.4”)
- 8.7kg (19.1lbs)
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