| Cambridge Audio Azur 640T DAB/FM tuner |
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 | | Posted: 11/11/04 |
| 'Potentially good, but has build quality issues' | | Strengths:
Good spec, cheap, looks nice. RicherSounds are nice people to deal with. | | Weaknesses:
Suffers from Quality control issues. I had three and then gave up!
The first one had a display fault.
The second one worked for a couple of hours, then got very hot and the audio output died (probably a PSU fault).
The third one's remote only worked from about 3 feet away!
On all remotes tried, the battery cover doesn't fit properly - looks like a design fault! | | Overall:
Potentially a very good Tuner. It sounds nice, if a little 'brittle', which is probably more to do with DAB itself than anything else.
However, I was severely disappointed by the Quality control. Cambridge Audio need to have their Chinese factory test these units properly!
I eventually gave up and went for a Pure (videologic) tuner instead! |
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| | | Performance | | 60% | | Build | | 40% | | Value | | 60% |
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| | Posted: 01/06/05 |
| 'NICE TUNER BUT NEEDS REBOOTING FORM TIME TO TIME' | | Strengths:
Easy to set up and use. | | Weaknesses:
Seriou sweakness: from time to time it drops the DAB signal and does not attempt to reqcquire it until retuned to a different multiplex. I;'ve had three of them and they all did it. It's a known problem (see the CA forums) but no fix has been released yet AFAIK although CA have said that an upgrade will be released once Radioscape have fixed the problem.
Another weakness is tha tthe signal strength bar is very optimisitic showing full strength with even a ppor aerial. This makes it hard to optimise aerial positing.
The scrolling 'text info' window is too slow to keep up with the opera captions broadcast on radio 3 - but maybe this is a general fault with DAB. | | Overall:
I like the tuner and on Radio 3 it sounds better than FM. |
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| | | Performance | | 40% | | Build | | 60% | | Value | | 60% |
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Average Rating: 3 out of 5
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