Reviews

Cambridge Audio's peerless engineering, use of first class components, and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities has seen the company pick up countless awards and rave reviews from hi-fi and home cinema magazines around the globe. Here's a selection below...

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Digital Music

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could combine all the convenience, simplicity and instant access of digital music with true hi-fi quality? Well now, thanks to Cambridge Audio’s passion for ultimate reproduction you can with a new range of digital music solutions that sound much better than anything you’ve heard before.

Compact Systems

The Cambridge Audio One and Sonata mark the company's foray into the compact systems arena. One is a stunning all in one solution with 2.1 amplifier, CD player, DAB/FM or FM/AM radio and front-mounted USB/SD card connections.

Sonata meanwhile is the ultimate compact separates system featuring 2.1 receiver, audiophile CD player and 1080p HDMI DVD player.

Both come with a bespoke iPod dock that can be controlled from the supplied remote.

AV Receivers / Home Cinema Receivers

Home cinema is exactly that: all the magic of a movie theatre, though in the comfort of your home. Cambridge Audio components let you enjoy jaw-dropping picture quality and envelop you in the finest Dolby Digital surround sound. We do this by employing the most advanced technologies available. But don’t be intimidated, as ever these critically acclaimed Cambridge Audio components are a joy to use.

Amplifiers

The amplifier is the heart of any system. Taking the source signal, it powers this to the speakers. Cambridge Audio has a hard-won, thirty five year reputation in manufacturing critically acclaimed amplifiers and home cinema receivers. Indeed, the flagship Azur 840A Class XD amplifier is a Hi-Fi Choice Gold award winner and has also picked up a CES Innovations Honoree Award 2007 while the 740A has won a prestigious Diapason d'or 2007 in France.

CD Players

Still the source of choice for audiophiles around the world, compact disc players offer superb sound quality. Cambridge Audio manufactures some of the best compact disc players available. The flagship Azur 840C upsampling CD player is a Hi-Fi Choice Gold award winner while the 640C V2 is rated as the best CD player under £500 in What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision magazine's 2006 awards.

Digital to Analogue Converters (DACs)

Cambridge Audio introduced the original DacMagic in 1994 with the specific intention of upgrading CD players. It was received to great acclaim and spawned several incarnations. The digital music revolution means the CD is just one format as people listen to their collection in a totally different way. Therefore, the time is right for a renaissance. The spiritual successor to the original DacMagic allows a range of applications such as PCs, Macintosh computers, Media Center PCs, network music devices and sound bridges to benefit from a DAC’s ability to bring downloaded and compressed content to life.

iPod™ docking

Cambridge Audio has taken its four decades' hi-fi experience and applied it to a range of docking systems which guarantee to extract every last drop of performance from your iPod™.

Blu-ray, Universal & DVD Players

It’s not hard to see why Blu-ray players have become so popular. Offering spectacular picture quality, amazing extra features like BD-Live and incredibly realistic surround sound – with both movies and music – these products deliver a new level of home entertainment.

Meanwhile, good old DVD continues to excite thanks to a combination of fantastic performance, instant access to movies, music and more, plus a range of great value software.

As ever Cambridge Audio is on hand with a range of class-leading Blu-ray, Universal and DVD players which offer all the latest features and enable you to get right inside your favourite movies! The Azur 540D V2 HDMI DVD player is a 5 star winner in What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision and 'Best Buy' in Home Cinema Choice

Tuners

Whether you like to listen to traditional analogue broadcasts or the wonderful new DAB Digital Radio stations, Cambridge Audio has the tuner for you. The company has been at the forefront of tuner design for three decades. Recently it helped bring Digital Radio to the masses with its critically acclaimed range of competitively-priced DAB designs.

Phono Pre-Amplifiers

In this age of music file downloads and striking hard disk portables it may seem strange but the good old turntable is, in fact, currently enjoying a renaissance. True to form Cambridge Audio is answering the demands of audiophile vinyl lovers with the introduction of two high quality, pre-amplifier phono stages, the 540P and 640P. Both models are Hi-Fi Choice 'Best Buys'.

Style Speaker Systems

Minx is a speaker on a mission to unite the disconnected worlds of rich, luxurious sounding hi-fi and design miniaturisation.

Until now, there’s been a stark choice. Opt for great sounding but relatively large speakers or choose a stylish mini speaker system that looks the part but fails to stir your soul when the music
starts.

Speakers

The stylish and punchy S30 heralds Cambridge Audio’s speaker revival. The R50 and R70 were highly regarded speakers in the 1970s and like its forbears, the new S30 offers excellent depth and soundstage yet extraordinary value for money. The S30 is a 5 star award winner in What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision. The S30 now forms the basis of the S-Series home cinema speaker range including the S50 centre, S70 floorstander and S90 subwoofer.

Interconnects

Amazing HDMI cables

Getting every drop of performance from your home cinema system just got a whole lot easier! Cambridge Audio’s new HDMI interconnect range is waiting to show you how your system can really perform. So it’s time to blow the cobwebs off your system with a range of simple to install but highly effective cables from the UK's #1 interconenct manufacturer.
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Interconnect cables for every requirement

And while getting the best from your hi-fi can often be a bewildering process, Cambridge Audio's new range of interconnects simplifies this and is one of the easiest ways to make your entertainment system perform in seconds.

We offer the widest possible range enabling you to connect virtually any product to your hi-fi or home cinema system. So whether you want to connect your iPod, Mac, laptop or CD player to your system, we have a great value cable to do the job!
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Product archive

Information on Cambridge Audio's range of discontinued products.