Cambridge Audio CX A60

Uffington

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I am a bit puzzled by the "advice" in the review of this amp....it suggests using both sets of terminals on the amp to biwire the speakers....is this correct ? I always thought that this was a big no-no.
 

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Al ears said:
floyd droid62 said:
by using speakers A+B would in effect biwire your speakers ; but it would halve the power,so a complete waste of time!

Not sure why you would want to bi-wire a speaker in the first instance.
I am also not sure if bi-wiring improves anything. I spent time and effort and money to bi-wire speakers years ago. I learned it was a waste, or at least any improvements made were lost on me
 
It was to my understanding that the two pairs of speaker binding posts are there in case you wish to run a second pair of speakers in another room and not have both pairs running at the same time.

If you really must bi-wire you are be off taking two runs of cable from the binding posts for speaker A.
 

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Hi,

In checking the manual, it does not state you can run two pairs of speakers at the same time. The button on the front seems to indicate it is speakers A or B, but not both.

As such, you cannot use the B terminals to biwire the A output.

The manual is rather scant on details here.

Regards,

Shadders.
 

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shadders said:
Hi,

In checking the manual, it does not state you can run two pairs of speakers at the same time. The button on the front seems to indicate it is speakers A or B, but not both.

As such, you cannot use the B terminals to biwire the A output.

The manual is rather scant on details here.

Regards,

Shadders.
Page 8 of the manual The Speaker A/B button on the front panel scrolls through the selection of speaker A only, speaker B only, and speaker A and B together.
 

shadders

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Samd said:
shadders said:
Hi,

In checking the manual, it does not state you can run two pairs of speakers at the same time. The button on the front seems to indicate it is speakers A or B, but not both.

As such, you cannot use the B terminals to biwire the A output.

The manual is rather scant on details here.

Regards,

Shadders.
Page 8 of the manual The Speaker A/B button on the front panel scrolls through the selection of speaker A only, speaker B only, and speaker A and B together.
Hi,

The user manual I downloaded from their website has only 6 pages. The product brochure has 6 pages too. User manual is labelled CXA Users Manual English.

Where did you get the user manual you have?

Thanks and regards,

Shadders.
 

shadders

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manicm said:
@Shadders, samd is right - I downloaded the 14 page manual from CA's site, and you can definitely have both sets of speakers playing simultaneously.
Hi,

I used Google and obtained the reference document. I can see that page 6 states that you can have them both selected independently or page 8 as stated both can be selected.

There does seem to be a lack of guidance in stating that the speaker impedances may be an issue if both sets of speakers are selected.

Regards,

Shadders.
 

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From the What HiFi review..." There's a decent spread of analogue and digital connections with four

line level inputs and two speaker terminals( so you can biwire or run a second pair of speakers) "
 

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by using speakers A+B would in effect biwire your speakers ; but it would halve the power,so a complete waste of time! i ment share the power from both terminalls
 

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