"TT" wrote in message
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"Alan Rutlidge" wrote
in message
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: I can back up TT''s claim. The Cambridge Azur 640H is
indeed a HOS.
: I have to applaud TT's persistence with the darn thing.
If it was mine it
: would be an expensive (very small) boat anchor by now.
:
: Cheers,
: Alan
:
:

Mmmmmmm........me thinks you shall remind me of this
erroneous purchase for many years to come ;-)

Cheers TT


Nah. Made quite a few mistakes myself over the years. Some worse than
others. :-(
I seriously doubt if anyone can hold you personally responsible for
Cambridge Audio's crap gear.
Mind you, credit is due where credit is due for your persistence in trying
to get the bloody thing to work reliably.
Personally, I would have hurled it into the canal by now or used it for crab
bait. But then again I'm not known for my patience. :P

Cheers,
Alan

"Alan Rutlidge" schreef in bericht
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"TT" wrote in message
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"Alan Rutlidge" wrote
in message
...
:
: I can back up TT''s claim. The Cambridge Azur 640H is
indeed a HOS.
: I have to applaud TT's persistence with the darn thing.
If it was mine it
: would be an expensive (very small) boat anchor by now.
:
: Cheers,
: Alan
:
:

Mmmmmmm........me thinks you shall remind me of this
erroneous purchase for many years to come ;-)

Cheers TT


Nah. Made quite a few mistakes myself over the years. Some worse than
others. :-(
I seriously doubt if anyone can hold you personally responsible for
Cambridge Audio's crap gear.
Mind you, credit is due where credit is due for your persistence in trying
to get the bloody thing to work reliably.
Personally, I would have hurled it into the canal by now or used it for
crab bait. But then again I'm not known for my patience. :P

Cheers,
Alan

What about getting professional help ... it might help ... really !

"Max Headroom" wrote in message
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"Alan Rutlidge" schreef in bericht
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"TT" wrote in message
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"Alan Rutlidge" wrote
in message
...
:
: I can back up TT''s claim. The Cambridge Azur 640H is
indeed a HOS.
: I have to applaud TT's persistence with the darn thing.
If it was mine it
: would be an expensive (very small) boat anchor by now.
:
: Cheers,
: Alan
:
:

Mmmmmmm........me thinks you shall remind me of this
erroneous purchase for many years to come ;-)

Cheers TT


Nah. Made quite a few mistakes myself over the years. Some worse than
others. :-(
I seriously doubt if anyone can hold you personally responsible for
Cambridge Audio's crap gear.
Mind you, credit is due where credit is due for your persistence in
trying to get the bloody thing to work reliably.
Personally, I would have hurled it into the canal by now or used it for
crab bait. But then again I'm not known for my patience. :P

Cheers,
Alan

What about getting professional help ... it might help ... really !

AFAIK TT spent hours trying to get assistance from Cambridge Audio's
technical support. Eventually they wouldn't respond to any communiqués
whatsoever. The day saved only by the fact the dealer agreed to take it
back and refund TT's money which is more than CA ever did.

As for your earlier post that they must have concentrated on the audio
section at the expense of the software you're wrong. Not only did it
perform poorly from an operational perspective it sounded rather mediocre
IMHO. :-(

I'm sure TT is glad to be rid of the POS.

Cheers,
Alan

max graff wrote:

Seriously, MP3 is a sacrilage to sound quality at least for old timers
like me who have grown up on vinyl and recently embrassed CD audio.

Actually MP3 can sound pretty good, *if*...

You use a decent encoder (eg LAME).

You keep the bitrate high enough, over 192Kbit or better still VBR.

You use j-stereo wherever possible (avoids ringing artefacts in the
surround channels if you squirt it through a Pro-Logic decoder).

You use decent hardware to play it back on.

I personally encode using LAME with options "-mj -b32 -V0 -q1". You're
hard pushed to tell the difference even in a back-to-back comparison.

As for the hardware... most PC sound cards are appalling. But an MP3
played on my iPod through the dock will sound better than the same track
played from the original CD from my old Technics player (SL-PG590).

Burn a CD-R full of MP3s and lob it in the DVD player (Arcam DV-79) and
you'll be hard pushed to tell the difference.

Or use something like a Slim Squeezebox, Turtle Beach Audiotron etc with
the digital output going straight into the AV receiver (Arcam AVR-250)
and again you'll be hard pushed to tell the difference.

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