"max graff" wrote in message
oups.com...
Cambridge is a specialist audio company meant for some
serious
listeners/viewers

Having been subjected to their "seriousness" I would have to
disagree.

compared to the cheap Chinese makes meant for people
who can live without accuracy and looking are for
convinience.

We are talking about MP3 here ;-)

Take me for instance, I would rather not listen to music
than listen to
an MP3 recording nor would I recommend it to anyone. I
guess Cambridge
engineers think on the same lines at the same time without
being phased
out by tough competition.

So why hide the function?

Cheers TT



TT wrote:
"Max Headroom" wrote in message
...
Hi,

The Cambridge Audio DVD89 player can play MP3 music,
by
first unlocking the
machine via the remote. Seems that the MP3 decoder
initially is locked,
depending the country in which the system will be
sold.

Does anybody know more hidden of undocumented features
for
this device or
other Cambridge Audio gear?

Thnx,

Max H.



The question I would really like answered is "Why would
they
bother to disable it to start with and why hide it?"
Any
cheap Chinese player will play DVD and MP3.

BTW I have had Pioneer DV686 for over a year that is a
multi
player (SACD/DVD-A/MP3/WMA etc, etc) and nothing was
hidden
on that.

But having owned a CA Azur 640H music server for a while
I
would imagine that it is more a case of CA's poor
software
implementation, the owner's manual being sketchy and
poorly
written and just a screw up from day one ;-)

Cheers TT