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Behind the scenes at Cambridge Audio

dtd said:
The Cambridge 650A amp with USB input looked very interesting. About time IMHO.
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Indeed. If that's done right , and I can only imagine it will be, then it seems they may also be acknowledging the demise of the cd player as a seperate component.

Plus it should be a spiffy way of getting into decent quality sound for quite cheap indeed. The amp and a pair of thier £250 speakers should last the non obbsessive (teenager, gamists, non audiophiles {HATE that word}for a decade.

Good luck to them.
 
Personally I much prefer the "physical prescence" of my cd collection, and the sound of my cdp. I can't see cd's dying out completely, even though sales are in decline.
 
I think that is the hurdle really, having friends that have lost entire, paid for, music collections thanks to what can only be described as Apple being utter c***s. I want to own a physical item, even if I rip it to a server as I very likely will in the foreseeable future - it would still give me more peace of mind knowing I had a physical disk with it on in the attic. I instinctively don't trust any networked computer system and I certainly don't trust the record companies - their notion of intellectual property is insane, taking some of their arguments to their illogical conclusion the next thing will be suing people who hum in the street.
 
worthingpagan said:
Personally I much prefer the "physical prescence" of my cd collection, and the sound of my cdp. I can't see cd's dying out completely, even though sales are in decline.
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I agree.

I just think cd players are on the way out. All that will soon remain are a few specialist builders.

There is likely to be a market for cds for sometime yet, albeit a shrinking one.

I am a little surprised that all new amps don't have dac access, I'm sure that will be the case very soon.

CA seem to have to do it too, even though it will eat into their dac sales.

But perhaps they have an all new mega dac around the corner!
 
What's a cd player grandad?

In the early days of RIAA equalisation I think pre-amps had several different RIAA inputs - more recently amps have RIAA, Moving Coil and line level.

Now a decent pre-amp or pre-amp/DAC might be expected to have USB, s/pdif and ethernet ..
 
There's currently only 2 amps I know of less than £1k that have DACs built in : XTZ A-100 D3 at £625, and the Harman HK990 at £800 (which I own). The HK990's DAC is certainly on par with a DacMagic I used to own, without the aggressiveness on the top end frequencies.

I'm a believer (especially on the lower end of the spectrum) that less can be more. Integration of a Dacmagic level DAC into a 650a without typical interconnection issues could really start to redefine the price levels the 650 series aims for. And why not?
 
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