Recent content by sonicboom

Coming to this a little bit late but hope this helps rather than hinders. I used to have an Arcam dvd and amp set up. When the dvd packed in I got the Cambridge 751 and thought it sounded nice with the Arcam amp. Then the amp packed as well and I got the Cambridge 751R as a replacement. So I...

I realise I am joining this a bit late. I have the Cambridge 751 set up ( bd and receiver) and it is very nice musically. One thing I would mention is that analogue connections are essential for cd playback to avoid the digital "clipping" you sometimes get playing back discs on either hdmi or...

My reply to another post about bluray players and sonics is hopefully equally relevant to this poster http://www.whathifi.com/forum/blu-ray-players/arcam-bdp100-v-bdp300

I had the Arcam DV79 and AVR 300 set up which I enjoyed a lot until the DV started to play up. It played dvds fine but there were days it just would not load cds. I had been thinking about an upgrade anyway to get bluray capability plus access to all the audio multichannel decodes. I kept...

I have just bought the Cambridge BD751 to replace my Arcam DV79 which has sadly failed on me. My amp is the Arcam AVR300. Does anyone have any thoughts on whether in this set-up I should set audio output as bitstream and let the amp do the decoding, or should I let the BD751 decode to pcm? Is...

A new member looking for some opinions. I have an Arcam DV79 and AVR300. I am hankering after a universal player to give me blu ray movie playback along with dvd-a and sacd. I really don't want to be getting in to replacing the amp so I will be using the analog multi channel connections. The...