Cambridge Audio CXC Volume Control?

So it def. is a gain issue but I won’t be able to adjust the gain on a different source component, like the CXC for instance.

I’ve got to send the Anthem back to the seller.  Hopefully it’s not too much of a hassle.  It’s too bad because the modded Anthem sounded fantastic but I don’t see any way it was going to work with any other source component without a way to adjust gain on that component.

As far as a runaway dial, yes I experienced that on my last I225 but not my current one.  My current one has a remote that doesn’t work now, which seems to be another issue with them, as the modded units didn’t work either.
The runaway volume had me doing a football dive across my listening room one time to save my speakers; kinda sketchy, lol.

To get back to the modded one though, it had the sand cast resistors replaced with mills resistors, hifi tuning fuses and a completely different xlr board and op amps.  It sounded really smooth and powerful, great bass / punchy and great imaging.  I’m really bummed about the xlr gain issue because the mods def. took the amp to another level sonically.  

The XLR input is usually +6db over RCA? The CXC output is <75 Ohm the Schiit XLR output is 75 Ohm . I think the problem is the high output of the Node set to fixed I don't think you would have a problem with the CXC. Try another CDP if you have one around or could borrow. 

I got lucky the volume on mine would go down and lock instead of up. After I did a firmware update it was fine, wish I would have kept it . I think it was a great sounding amp stock. Of course as they get older they need new parts might as well improve it. 

@djones... I have to lower the gain on the Bluesound 15dbs though.

I have a stock Anthem I225 that I have been using and that is back in my rig right now, and have no issues running the Bluesound full volume... 🤷🏼‍♂️

Do you think the bluesound on fixed volume is that much higher output than a CXC?  15db’s?

To add, I can tell a 6 db difference on my stock Anthem between rca and xlr but on the modded Anthem it is more like 20db’s... the xlr input sensitivity on the modded unit seems really really high.

if I had a cd player with a digi out sitting around, I already would have checked it.  I even looked on my local craigslist snd couldn’t find anything under $50, which I really don’t want to spend for a diagnosis...