Advantages: Great design, great price, very well built
Disadvantages: Plastic connectors at the back but no real drawback

...I spent ages looking for a good amp and went to LOADS of different shops looking at them. I must say that the design was up there in importance with the sound then i saw the Cambridge Audio AZUR range. The build quality is amazing, the remote control quality is AMAZING and the blue LED lights on the unit are lush! Obviously the quality that you get from the amp depends on the the speakers and the other devices you have plugged into it but you could not go far wrong with more Cambridge Audio devices. I bought the matching AZUR cd player, which works off the same remote control meaning that you only need to use the one, and as you get one with each device you have one spare incase anything happens. Also, a little tip. If you go into richer sounds to buy it, and want to buy more than one thing at once, such as an AMP and the CD player... Read review

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Advantages: price - looks - build quality
Disadvantages: Not anything major

...What can i say about the Cambridge Audio Azur CD player. WELL...... its CLASS! The design is amazing with the blue LCD power light and the very clear LCD screen to show what track you are on. The remote control is very well built and heavy, not in a bad way but in a way that shows the quality. Another advantage about the remote is that it works with all AZUR products. I currently have the CD player and the AMP and they work perfectly together and all by using the one remote control. There is only one little thing that i could possible comment on that they could have improved on. If your lazy like me and have the CD tray open and do not want to press the close button then the off button it will not automatically shut the tray for you. It turns off and leaves it open. Even my £10.00 CD player does that. But out of everything... Read review

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Advantages: Design, black finish, sleek, modern
Disadvantages: The Cambridge Audio name outways the product in this instance

...This amplifier looks like a bargain, with a price tag at Richer Sounds for around about £85 and the Cambridge Audio brand name attached to it, it must be, mustn't it? Not really, no - as good as it looks in the window, when I took it home and used it, the sound quality was not nearly as sharp as I would have hoped. I have a pair of great speakers and this amp wouldn't do them any justice. It has the regular bass and treble nobs on the front, a large volume nob, and a balance function, however you won't be able to turn the volume up passed a third as it then dissapointingly starts to distort! Reading magazines such as What Hi-Fi, and Which? leads you to believe that Cambridge Audio is a brand wherby you cannot go wrong in terms of sound quality. I think this amplifier is aimed at the student market, due to the fairly cheap price tag... Read review

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Advantages: Price, Sound quality, asthetics
Disadvantages: No remote

...I have had to put up with the tinny undefined sounds of a poor quality Goodmans midi system for nigh on 6 years, you can imaging my glee when I finally got round to purchasing my new separates system just before Christmas. The Cambridge Audio A5 was my choice amplifier, purchased from Richer Sounds for £119.95, a snip for such quality merchandise. Many of my friends have separates and all were envious of my purchase. It has a massive 60 WPC output, which is frankly far more than I needed, but it also ensures low down poke and high level crispness even a low volumes. With 8 inputs and bi-wirable capability for the speakers, few amps in this price range come close. The controls as with all Cambridge products are minimal, Volume, Bass, Treble, Balance along with channel select and direct output button. Again as with the majority... Read review

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Advantages: Good enough sound quality, nice styling
Disadvantages: Poor quality buttons, push to buy it

...The Cambridge Audio D500SE is the top-of-the-range CD player produced by British manufacturers Cambridge Audio. It attempts to be 'genuine hi-fi' without the brand association of some of the cheaper brands, while providing a good audio experience. I'll be looking at how much of that the D500SE lives up to. The D500SE is a modified version of the original D500 player, with a different DAC. It should be noted that the digital-to-analogue conversion stage is the only real difference in a CD player - in the digital stage, nothing different happens, it's digital, right? (Leave a message in my guestbook if you need an explanation of this.) So you can expect a review of the standard D500 to give a different result. The SE has a 24-bit DAC, which is supposed to give improved quality. Apparently, bits of this player have been specially... Read review

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Advantages: HDMI Out, DIVX support, mp3 support
Disadvantages: Too many buttons on the remote! Slow eject button response.

...This stylish and reasonably priced DVD player from Cambridge Audio