Hi,

Has anyone else noticed that the forums area from the Cambridge Audio
website has disappeared today?

Hopefully this is just a technical issue - there were a number of really
good questions about the new 640H hard-disk server which CA could do with
answering...

Any response from CA regarding this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Yes, I noticed it had vanished as well. I fhad ound the forums very
useful - when I had trouble with my 640T it was only via the forum that
I discovered it was a well-known fault not a one off.

There had been a lot of critial discussion and unanswered questions on
the forums of late and I guess CA decided it was bad for their image.
One can hardly blame them.

Robert

"Robert" wrote in message
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Yes, I noticed it had vanished as well. I fhad ound the forums very
useful - when I had trouble with my 640T it was only via the forum that
I discovered it was a well-known fault not a one off.

There had been a lot of critial discussion and unanswered questions on
the forums of late and I guess CA decided it was bad for their image.
One can hardly blame them.


:-)

Dave Giles wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone else noticed that the forums area from the Cambridge Audio
website has disappeared today?

Hopefully this is just a technical issue - there were a number of really
good questions about the new 640H hard-disk server which CA could do with
answering...

Any response from CA regarding this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I was in RS Sheffield a couple of weeks ago - they're as in the dark
as everyone else concerning the HD CD - 'maybe stuck in a boat between
here and China' was their best bet. Ther latest I heard was a
software/iPod connection problem, and testing may go on until xmas.

"Rob" wrote


I was in RS Sheffield a couple of weeks ago - they're as in the dark as
everyone else concerning the HD CD - 'maybe stuck in a boat between here
and China' was their best bet.


Hah!

Same boat as my sodding amp then!

Earlier today, I chased up the 300B amp I'm expecting from HK and was told
it isn't even in the country yet - after 4 weeks!! (Reputable eBay seller
looking in to it...) I was pretty jarred off in a '**** that, never again'
sort of way until I learned that our piano tuner had died unexpectedly from
natural causes sometime recently.* He was younger than me - equilibrium
restored pdq I can tell you!! (Poor sod - nice enough bloke, if a little
dour....)

(Mine dew, don't get me started on the *un-****ing-believable* Porcel Farce
Worldwide 'Thank you for holding' malarkey or I'll end up joining him!!)


*Eat, drink, play records and be merrie moi beauties - for some of us life
*really is* that short, it seems.....!!

I was in RS Sheffield a couple of weeks ago - they're as in the dark
as everyone else concerning the HD CD - 'maybe stuck in a boat between
here and China' was their best bet. Ther latest I heard was a
software/iPod connection problem, and testing may go on until xmas.

Ah - that's pretty poor... A number of people (myself included) have been
waiting for the release of the 640H since it was announced - which must've
been at the start of 2005..? (seems like an age now...)

As I've pointed out to Cambridge Audio on the forums, the specification of
the machine seemed pretty good - nearly a year ago. But now a 160GB hard
disk doesn't seem like much, especially given the fact that it doesn't
support Ogg. Ho hum.

Seems like a wasted opportunity. The 640H could've been so much better...

Keith G wrote:
"Rob" wrote



I was in RS Sheffield a couple of weeks ago - they're as in the dark as
everyone else concerning the HD CD - 'maybe stuck in a boat between here
and China' was their best bet.



Hah!

Same boat as my sodding amp then!

Earlier today, I chased up the 300B amp I'm expecting from HK and was told
it isn't even in the country yet - after 4 weeks!! (Reputable eBay seller
looking in to it...) I was pretty jarred off in a '**** that, never again'
sort of way until I learned that our piano tuner had died unexpectedly from
natural causes sometime recently.* He was younger than me - equilibrium
restored pdq I can tell you!! (Poor sod - nice enough bloke, if a little
dour....)


Quite right - a bit of perspective, it doesn't *really* matter ...

(Mine dew, don't get me started on the *un-****ing-believable* Porcel Farce
Worldwide 'Thank you for holding' malarkey or I'll end up joining him!!)


I have quite a problem with the industry - what's all this 'stay in all
day on the off chance we pop round with your parcel suitably mangled
through our pre-industrial handling systems'. Hmph, it does *sort of*
matter ;-)


*Eat, drink, play records and be merrie moi beauties - for some of us life
*really is* that short, it seems.....!!


Well, there we are, not that important after all :-)

"Rob" wrote


(Mine dew, don't get me started on the *un-****ing-believable* Porcel
Farce Worldwide 'Thank you for holding' malarkey or I'll end up joining
him!!)


I have quite a problem with the industry - what's all this 'stay in all
day on the off chance we pop round with your parcel suitably mangled
through our pre-industrial handling systems'. Hmph, it does *sort of*
matter ;-)


I think the pathetic performance of major companies like Porcel Farce is
symptomatic of the Modern Era: superficially 'new and improved, computerised
and digitised' - *crap* in reality....

I have mentioned here before that I once asked my grandfather what was
*really* better than when he were a lad and he said 'cheese and beer'!!
(Which were a lot less variable, apparently....!!)

So he was a relatively happy old bunny with few complaints! ;-)

In article . com, Robert
wrote:
Yes, I noticed it had vanished as well. I fhad ound the forums very
useful - when I had trouble with my 640T it was only via the forum that
I discovered it was a well-known fault not a one off.

Would you care to elucidate? I have a 640T which is currently giving me no
problems at all, but should I be concerned in case it does? Is there
anything that I could check?

Rod.

I bought my two azur640Ts about a year ago. I noticed, almost at
once, that from time to time they would lose signal and then freeze up,
making no further attempt to reacquire the signal. They both behaved
the same way, though they failed at different times. To get them to
retune I had to switch to another channel (on a different multiplex)
and back again. This used to happen on average once every 30-40 hours
of listening.

Richer Sounds swapped them, but the mew ones were just the same. On
the forum I found out that many people had the same trouble. CA then
said they were soon gong t orelease a fix. After a year of waiting
CA did release a new version which fixed the 'lost signal' problem. I
now have two of these new units - swapped by Richer Sounds.

You can tell if you have the old or new one by pressing and holding in
for 2 seconds the "info" button. This will display the version
number. V2.0 is the old one. V3.0 is the new. V3.0 also has a yellow
dot on the carboard box.

Although V3.0 fixes the "lost signal" problem it introduced a new
problem, but not a very bad one. When the system is in standby mode it
will, after a random time, suddenly switch on the light on the display.
I've got used to it now. Other people (on the forum) had noticed the
same. V2.0 did not do this.

Robert