This is surprisingly good receiver with excellent amplifier. I'm using it every day for listening music and I've connected it with Sony 4k BlueRay player for movies which seems like perfect combination. I've connected mh hand made self-starting loudspeakers with silver speaker cables. The sound is warm with a lot of details and great stage. High and mid range is perfectly detailed and bass is very well defined and deep. The caracter of this amp is mire like tube amp, The instruments are really giod defined and vocals are nice.

Love it. Very smooth with an easy to listen to sound.

I recently bought an AXR100 and additionally in the Cambridge Audio store on eBay CD player AXC35 open box because here all CD players of the A series are out of stock.
PROS: The look is fantastic, simple, and elegant. The functionality and ease of use of all functions are absolutely great. The remote control looks quite good and works flawlessly and you can operate both devices with one. The sound quality is excellent, although I expected it a little better. But that's my feeling and maybe a matter of speakers - I use KEF Q150.
CONS: I'm a fan of FM, I don't want DAB and that was the reason I chose the ARX100. The radio picks up only a few of the strongest stations (8 stations) and the RDS did not work properly. Display changing symbols and BBC3 shows as CCB*?, B*, CCC**, CCCR, etc. The display keeps blinking with changing symbols which is very annoying. Some stations are not displayed at all. Placed in the same place, my old Pioneer X-HM70 receives all stations flawlessly (19 stations) and RDS works perfectly. I have a large CD collection but sometimes I want to listen to something different and I use Tidal. So I tried to play via Bluetooth. It works very well and connects very easily but the quality is not the best. Music from Tidal via an android tablet is of very poor quality and plays very quietly. From a Linux laptop, it's much better, but sometimes it crashes. Maybe because of an internet connection. I could download music and transfer but there is no USB port. It's a pity. My old Pioneer has a USB and even reads flack files. The biggest downside turned out to be the CD player, the quality is so poor that I have to return it and therefore I want to return the AXR100 as well.

This is a great amp at this price point. I was looking at Yamaha stereo receivers with these specs and price range and i'm so glad i stuck with Cambridge Audio. This amp just sounds great. This is paired with Cambridge Audio Areo 6's. With my previous (entry-level) Yamaha home theater receiver these sounded more muffled, less midrange, and bass wasn't as strong. This amp fixed everything right up and has a very clean flat sound. You can adjust bass and treble to taste.