| |  | Electronics Cambridge Audio Azur 840C CD Player -silver |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Excellent CD Player!
Let me give you first some background information. I am an audiophile (or aspiring one if your prefer) on a budget and I have owned several brands of players since the creation of the format (JVC, Technics, Sony ES) until 1992 where I found about the Pioneer Elite PD-65 (Stable Platter Technology), This player was so good in comparison to others that I have owned or auditioned before (At my local Sound Advice in Miami) that it stayed with me until a few months ago, so we are talking roughly 15 years plus a few months. During this time, as technologies, were advancing I auditioned other units but I always came back to my faithful PD-65. Again at the end of 2007 I came into serious "upgrade mode" and the reading of several reviews drove me to a Marantz SACD/CD Player (in Stereophile's current recommended component list) and survived with it a few months in a love/hate relationship, -Love- because when it got it right the sound was wonderful, even better than the PD-65 and -Hate- because sometimes it refused to play a few titles (The PD NEVER did) and ultimately I read so very good reviews of playback of plain Red Book discs with this unit that I had very high expectation of what to expect with the playing of poor recordings (let's be honest a lot of CDs out there sound terrible) but they still sound bad. As we all know "Garbage in, Garbage out".
So I started looking again and came into the Cambridge Audio 840C which was well beyond my budget but I jumped and I don't regret the decision. This player is simply fabulous, I have it connected with balanced cables (XLR) to my Adcom Pre-amp and GFA-5800 Amplifier. Maybe it is synergy, maybe just plain good luck but for the first time (at least for me) I can hear "silence" and that makes every single sound listenable in a way I could not hear before and to top it off I recover a lost appreciation of my music collection (including poor recordings that now are listenable).
As any advice you can take this with a grain of salt but this is my personal experience and I can not find exact words to describe the excitement of owning a player that finally delivers and that have made my music alive again. I know that a lot of people might say.. "You have not auditioned brand XYZ which sounds way better than the 840" to what I will simply respond that my opinion is based in the brands that I mentioned and a few others that I had the change to listen to over the years.
Thank you for your time reading this.
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