Recent content by JMacMan

Yes - HDMI. I have no need for analogue audio outputs so won't miss them. If the lack of them leads to a slightly better picture and/or video over the Oppo 203 as Cambridge claim, so much the better. The issue is that my DAC will only accept 48,96,192 khz etc, and only LPCM - no DSD support...

Wow! fantastic detective work - kudos. I'm very happy to stand corrected, as I really only want to know the truth of the matter - the evidence is hard to deny and I will give the Global Sales manager the benefit of the doubt as he may simply have been repeating what he has been told or...

I personally met and spoke with Tom Groves, Global Sales Manager for Cambridge Audio. He was a very nice and approachable guy and we had a great chat about Cambridge products, the CXUHD in particular as I am researching to buy, and politics within the industry generally. As a follow up of that...

Thanks for that. Out of interest and for the OP and others, I attended a HiFi show in Melbourne today and spoke to one of the managers at Cambridge, out from England especially for the event. He confirmed that the Cambridge CXUHD uses the same mediatek board as Oppo - and also used in Arcam...

Just another thought on the video output from all 4k Bluray players being the same.... In theory, with a digital signal from the disk, via a digital interface to a digital display, yes. But, no player is the equivalent of a straight wire with gain. All players have video controls of some sort...

Back in the days of DVD and composite, S-Video and component analogue video outs to an CRT display, there used to be quite a noticeable difference between a budget and an expensive DVD player - one assumes component quality, ability of the drive to pick up all the information from the disc with...

Some thoughts as I have been making enquires with Cambridge about this player, and with Oppo about the 203/205. As one can understand, both companies refuse to comment on the others products, but... from what I am able to garner... Both the new Cambridge CXUHD player and the Oppo 203/205 use...

Who discredited it? Audiophiles perhaps? Try asking the professional audio world..amongst whom most audiophiles are seen as being a laughing stock. If there are no objective standards, and everything is subjective, I say that audiophiles are OCD self deluded, and Bose beats all when it comes to...

My opinion will be somewhat biased, as I own B&O kit, and I've also heard the A9 on my own music in a showroom. Conventional wisdom says go with the separates, for the reasons mentioned above. And certainly stereo separation will be superior with stand alone speakers to the A9. However...

http://www.tonmeister.ca/wordpress/2013/11/15/bo-tech-whats-so-great-about-active-loudspeakers/ Being a thread about active speakers, I thought some might be interested in B&O's reasons for active operation - an interesting post by Dr. Geoff Martin from his blog on B&O tech. Cheers John..

Just an comment to say that I've now heard these speakers on 3 different occassions. Putting aside all the ground breaking technology, i.e. user variable speaker directivity, active noise cancelling techniques to remove colouration effects of the room etc, they are flat out the finest...

Just an comment to say that I've now heard these speakers on 3 different occassions. Putting aside all the ground breaking technology, i.e. user variable speaker directivity, active noise cancelling techniques to remove colouration effects of the room etc, they are flat out the finest...

In the context of an electrical circuit between an amplifiers speaker outputs and a passive loudspeakers input terminals, cables with different LCR specs may well cause the sound of the system to be subtly different. Emphasis upon 'subtle' and 'different' - not better or worse. Cables with the...

4. As in the closest approach to the original sound, the original and surely still the raison de etre for a hifi systems existence. By original sound, I defer to B&O's definition of the term with respect to the original sound as heard by the recording engineer when it comes to domestic replay...

Active.