Help. My system is shouting at me

I think you've stumbled upon one of the caveats mentioned about this amp. You have to be careful with source components as you've got a passive preamp section in the Exposure 2010. Cambridge cd players sound a bit analytical and lean in my opinion. Combine this with a passive pre and you've got a potential for sound not to everyone's taste. Be careful about using your interconnects and speaker wire as tone controls. If you don't like the basic sound of a component, you're unlikely to change that with new wire. I've not heard the silver and copper Monster THX, but I'm actually using the copper Monster "off the spool" speaker wire right now. My power amp is in the shop at the moment and I'm using a Luxman amp temporarily that won't let me use my normal speaker wire. I went down to Best Buy and bought a $20.00 spool of the Monster and was shocked at how competent it is for $20.00. It definitely does not add any harshness to the sound of my system. You could try gambling $20.00 on copper only speaker wire to see if the silver in the Monster THX is adding any unwanted harshness.

Blazen69 -
A bit more of an investment than new wire but you might consider the Musical Fidelity tube buffer. This might take some of the edge off vocals. I think it is especially worth considering for solid state. Don't know if it is a proper "fix" or simply a band aid.

I had an earlier model Cambridge (D500SE) in my system. It was a great step up sonically from the entry level, inexpensive Sony CD/DVD player I had been using. After a time however I became unhappy with some harshness in female vocals as well as a lack of coherency in the sound stage. I think "coherency" is the appropriate word since, rather than continuous imaging left to right, CD playback seemed to present disconnected panels of sound ranging across the stage (vinyl didn't seem to do this). In my integrated tube amp-based system, the tube buffer took the edge off female vocals, provided a bit of a boost to bass and interestingly enough seemed to improve soundstage fill. My 2 cents. Good luck.

Is your room treated and your power line in order?
Larry

Avoiding shouting is a question of balancing components.
It should be relatively simple to solve the problem with the right interconnects and or speaker cable.What you need is warm sounding cables.Good Luck.

All CDP sound like this next to Analog. =8^)