A Winning Combination - Cambridge Audio Azur 340A Brochure & Specs

A winning combination

Cambridge Audio's Azur range of electronics – its
first completely new series of products for nearly
five years – has enjoyed unprecedented critical
success across the line-up in specialist hi-fi and
home cinema magazines as well as the
mainstream press. It is by far and away the most
popular series the company has ever introduced.
The foundation of this achievement is
Cambridge Audio's peerless design capability
undertaken by a dedicated research and
development team comprising over 20 electronic,
mechanical and software engineers at the
company's London headquarters. Equally
important are our state-of-the-art, ISO certified
manufacturing facilities, ensuring consistently
excellent products.
A great example of the acclaim that has been
garnered across the entire Azur range is the 640C
compact disc player. The design is now widely
regarded as the best CD
component one can
purchase under £500. The
design won a revered Best
Buy from What Hi-fi? Sound
and Vision at the magazine's recent Awards
ceremony, while Hi-fi Choice has proclaimed the
component its best CD player under £500,
declaring, "the 640C is perhaps the best budget
CD player around right now, fully deserving of a
partnership with equipment costing far more."
And it's not just the specialist press that has
been singing the praises of this spectacular new
product. Everyone from The Sunday Times to
FHM has been bowled over by the design's
winning blend.
Cambridge Audio's continued commitment to engineering excellence has seen the company pick up repeated awards
Further afield the 640C has won a string of
admirers across the globe. Whether it be
respected French music magazine shortlisting the
640C for a coveted Diapson D'Or award, Stereo
magazine in Germany calling the design 'nothing
short of breathtaking', or The
Herald Sun, Australia's biggest
daily newspaper,
recommending the 640C, the
CD player is recognised across
the globe as class leader.
Such success is mirrored across the rest of
the Cambridge Audio Azur range, and nowhere is
this obvious than with the Azur 540D progressive
scan/DVD-Audio player and Azur 540R 6.1 multi-
channel home cinema receiver.
Having spent the best part of three decades
perfecting two channel audio performance,
Cambridge Audio turned its attention to the multi-
channel market and with striking success. The
Azur 540D and 540R – the company's first-ever
home cinema receiver – make use of some of the
very latest processing technologies and this
considerable investment has paid off with
wonderful performance. The result has been
countless best buys and five
star reviews in the home
cinema press, a first for
Cambridge Audio, So, rather than just taking our
word for how great the Azur range of electronics
is, take the words of these experienced,
independent experts. You'll find, just as they did,
that the new line-up is the best we have ever
made.