Talk:Cambridge Audio

Too commercial

This article appears to be an advert for the company. I do not agree with the use of statements like "forefront of hifi" and "brought some of the most innovative and technologically advanced products to consumers" as these are debatable. I do not think this article is based around factual content, rather opinions about the company.

I agree. I think it is important to state that Julian Richer, owner of Richer Sounds has a 51% stake in The Audio Partnership. TAP in turn own Cambridge Audio and Mordaunt Short. Richer Sounds are the only authorised dealer of CA kit in the UK. Many independent dealers say that CA gets better reviews than it should in magazines like What Hi-Fi because of the advertising relationship with Richer. Independent dealers also say that budget gear from the likes of NAD, Rotel and Marantz consistently gets better reviews from the community on audioreview.com. I still believe that CA Azur separates are quality products and offer value for money. But they are seen as Richer Sounds own brand and NAD, Rotel and Marantz all offer products at least as good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.63.53 (talk) 23:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

The page has changed since my initial comments above, but still contains little important information and some uncited claims, e.g. "primarily known for its range of amplifiers and tuners, many of which featured novel technical design and an unusually slim physical profile" and "have received some positive reviews from hi-fi and home cinema magazines" - Citations required.

Cambridge Audio in its original incarnation was indeed famous for their amplifiers. They also were famous for their ground-breaking CD-players in the late 1980s, but I cannot find any information on the web on it. The CD1 was one of the first two-box players that separated transport from DAC, while the CD2 and CD3 were using 16 bit-16 times oversampling (using 4 DAC (16 bit-4 times oversampling) units in parallel. The fortunes of the company dwindled, and it was bought over by a Southeast Asian company "Pertama Audio", before it was bought over by The Audio Partnership in 1994. Again, I can't find any information on this on the web!Colin Matthew Chan (talk) 00:24, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Needs references

Can someone please add these "citation required" notes to the main article as I do not know how to do this. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.8.150.6 (talk) 12:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

On the same subject, the references need to be moved inline preferably MK47X (talk) 18:55, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Marketing Wank?

There's far too much marketing wank in this article. It looks like it was cut-n-pasted from brochures by someone who knows little about audio. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.118.202 (talk) 02:18, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Still the case today - a little disappointing! - ElectronicsForDogs (talk) 23:10, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

I saw it had been flagged as containing content written like an advertisement, so I took a lot of it out and redistributed what remained into more factual subsections than a decade-by-decade rundown of products. Based it on the Naim Audio page for guidance. May have taken too much away? Camberrr (talk) 13:55, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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