Hi Mahiruha,
There are no issues with the Cambridge Audio line of DVD Players. Yes, while I do agree that they may be stray incidents, but to say that CA players have a tendency to not read disc's is baseless (I'm refering to Venkat's post)
I'm glad you have had your player replaced and it's working properly (See, I told you so)
Shane
Hello shanechoithramani,
I would be the most happiest person to agree with you in this matter but I must say that it is not the case because there are issues. It is true that the second player which got replaced yesterday is working fine now but I have taken a great deal of risk in atall accepting the product.when called the shop yesterday he told me that he has received the product yesterday it is making sound and displaying pictures but the front LCD panel in dark. then after couple of hour he called me again saying that he opened the unit and fixed the loose wire and make it work. In the first place after hearing such a thing I guess nobody would have accepted a product but I was just too eager to get it and start experimenting with it as i have read very good reviews about it . In spite of all those issues I must say it is a very good product and I am very happy so far. In case for your interest I am posting some really bad reviews about this product.They are not easy to locate as this product is praised so much.
Thnaks,
Mahiruha.
Disclaimer: the review quoted below is not mine. Just posted as reference that people did face issues with this player. If you click the url provided below you will find many reviews about this product by users which gives a allround idea about pros and cons. It also has the review quoted below.
"" Summary:
Beware this player, and even Cambridge Audio in general. In principle, it's an excellent unit, but I had to go through three of them in six weeks to be convinced that Cambridge has design and quality control problems. Player #1: Purchased mid-August. Outstanding video quality, excellent CD sound, but DVD-A was a bust. It wouldn't play the format due to a software problem. Before it was determined to be a software issue affecting several hundred units, my dealer (Audio Vision in San Francisco; excellent people, I highly recommend them) provided me with a replacement, which, naturally was... Player #2: DVD-Audio, at last. Same CD playback. Video riddled with noise. Yup, this thing had a ground loop problem with my digital cable feed like you wouldn't believe. Lifting the cable ground took care of this, but without the lovely purples and greens from the ground loop obscuring the picture, I now got treated to some other kind of interference. Faint, thin horizontal bands of alternating image intensity (not different color, just intensity) ran from top to bottom of the image. Pausing playback, however, stopped the noise. Immediately I thought: stepper motor drive signal interference. A quick and dirty calculation of the apparent square wave frequency based on the number of bands on screen gave 15 to 20 Hz. And what is the usual square wave drive frequency for a DVD player? About 10 to 30 Hz, depending on the head location. This, of course, takes me to... Player #3. Surely, the noise artifacts were a fluke. After all, the first of these players had completely clean video. Nope, not a chance. Identical noise problems and the same unusually low black level. This unit, however, had the added bonus of a transport so noisy I could keep time with the clicking of the stepper motor during soft passages of music while seated 10 feet away. So, is it poor design, or poor quality control? I'm guessing both. I decided to have a look inside the second unit. Two things struck me: first the SCART connector housing was badly corroded, as were the solder pins from the connector to the board; second, there was a version sticker on the logic board (containing the DACS and stepper timing circuitry, among other things) that was printed as "2.2" but which had been altered with a pen to "2.3". Since the serial number of the third unit was one number removed from the serial number of the second, the third one was certainly a "version 2.3". My take is that Cambridge made a circuit design that resulted in the stepper drive signal crosstalk and susceptibility to ground loops. Add in some shoddy workmanship, and there you have it. For me, since I didn't want to shell out twice as much for another multi-format (DVD-V, DVD-A, and CD) player, I found it worked better to forget about having a multi-format player for the time being in favor of a decent CD player (the Cambridge 540C, believe it or not) and a separate DVD-V player. There were also a couple of non-performance issues that arose. On the second and third 540D's, the screen-printed logo and button labels were much, much darker than what was on the amp, making the pairing look conspicuously cheap. Further, on the second 540D and on the 540C were white information stickers about 1.5 x 2.0 inches, that had been placed on the top front surfaces of the units. Instead of using an appropriate low-tack adhesive, they cheaped out and used a semi-permanent adhesive that was so stuck on that I had to remove the top covers and soak them in warm water with a little alcohol for several hours to remove the stickers. The 540D came out fine, but the on the 540C the adhesive had deteriorated the paint underneath, leaving a really noticeable stain. I'm giving this thing low value and overall ratings because it failed in it's primary purpose: video playback. I know this is supposed to be bargain equipment, but I don't think expecting things like basic functionality and undamaged casework is unreasonable at any price short of free. Overall, if you're thinking about going Cambridge, think twice. Look carefully at their website, and compare their Azur line, which they say is a ground up re-design, to their older stuff. There is virtually no difference between them, and what differences are there tend to favor the older line. I cannot recommend that anyone purchase their products.
Strengths:
Decent CD sound, DVD-A, very nice picture when you look past the noise.
Weaknesses:
Video noise resulting from ground loops and RF pickup from the stepper motor; assembly and fabrication quality problems ""
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Cambridge Audio Azur 540D Reviews