“Oh hello, old friend,” we thought as we dusted off our long-held sample of Cambridge Audio’s original CXA81, smiling as we lifted it out of the box as a whisky connoisseur might a 40-year-old bottle of single malt Scotch.
This 2019-released integrated amplifier is fondly remembered at What Hi-Fi?, having won back-to-back What Hi-Fi? Awards for four years. In fact, we named it our Product of the Year in the stereo amplifier category each time, too.
