Used as a Center Channel, again that Mid does a great job on movies and dialogue.
Not too bright, definately full across the whole spectrum above where the separate woofer or sub comes in. What you gain though is an efficient and very full midrange and tweeter. One, they need the separate woofer and Cambridge will tell you to look elsewhere if you want bass without a sub (namely at their bookshelfs speakers w/ 5 1/4" woofers built in or their MC400s). After that, I really started testing them against other speakers including Energy, Bose, AR, etc. They were pretty dim and muted and opened up gradually over that time and with some louder listening. First off, it took at least 2 weeks of regular use to warm the speakers up. Our streaming service integrations are somewhat governed by what the service allows us access to, but there is always room for improvement and it sounds like Queue management is an area you feel we need to focus, so we'll take that on board and look in to it.Bought my MC300s a long time ago along with a powered 8" downward firing Cambridge woof (won't call it a sub though at 275w you CAN feel it). Hi, thanks for your detailed feedback, and explaining your thoughts clearly for us. Then you also have a headache less I guess.)Ĥ stars if the experience and the user interface would be up to dateĥ stars if it would have all functions of Qobuz, or better yet, I can use Qobuz and don’t have to deal with any other interface. (No, I will not use Apple airplay, low quality, sorry. Pretty sure you have a backlog of features you then could work on. You save on resources and the Qobuz / Tidal do the heavy lifting on interface (which we pay for dearly, their win) and happy customers. (Basically a vampire tap pulling the info from Qobuz) Your app in the background connects then to the network player for HiRes playback. They essentially are designed for that purpose.
Qobuz can be the drivers for selecting and managing queues. Qobuz (also Tidal, I use Qobuz) does have a better experience and rather Cambridge having to do so much work on their solution, a suggestion: It usually just plays the song instead of adding it to the queue. If you have any other feedback, or ideas on how we could improve things please let us know at Happy listening, Cambridge AudioĪdding a single song to the queue is more miss than hit. Hi, thanks for this great review, we're very pleased you're enjoying your 851N. This is the streamer you want to get at this price point because the integration is all managed in house for the app and the hardware.
I’ve been a Cambridge customer since 2010 and have never had a bad product from them. You could go to blu os but that app has terrible reviews. Compared to competitors products which I also looked at this was the best and most stable app at the price point. Really happy with the 851 will give me many years and hours of listening enjoyment. Only giving four stars as the app interface could be improved. I primarily got this to replace my separates and be able to control the hifi system all from my iPad. It will display album art and track title and artist on the display which is nice. The Roon ready is easy to use just select Roon ready in this app and add it as a audio end point on your Roon audio settings tab. Sound quality is good on Sirius symphony hall and met opera radio using air play. Switching sources is easy in the app and makes it easy to pick usb, air play or Roon which is what I primarily use.
The AD DACs were a major upgrade coming from the wolfson.
The DAC section of the 851 is pretty good it’s much smoother than the DAC magic plus which it replaced. It allowed me to replace my pre amp and DAC separates with a all-included unit. So I recently picked up a 851N music streamer.