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In Reply to: Cambridge 840C - Why all the flips? posted by ManxCat on January 29, 2009 at 15:10:51:
PHOTO: My previous office system while auditioning three vintage tuners with the Cambrisge Audio 640C on the front left. Electronics are Audio Research LS3 and D130, tuners: McIntosh MR67 and MR77, Revox B160. that's a Toshiba 3960 at the back right and a Peavey VMP-2 tube microphone preamp sitting on the 640C.
ManxCat,
I think your analysis must cover most of the possible reasons for what seems unusually numerous resales of the digital wunderkind Cambridge Audio 840C. Note that two other recent "hot numbers" in the CD world, the Rega Apollo and Saturn seemed to see steady resales almost right away also. It seems to me that some audiophiles get excited by reviewers' statements about the $5,000 player for $1,600 are prepared to experiment and suffer the losses. Personally, I tend to choose carefully and still have almost every piece of gear I've ever owned and regret about the only items that are gone now: AR3A speakers.
I was intrigued by others' comments as to the 840C sound not living up to expectation and this is how I feel about the the 640C. I have a 640C-v2 acquired in 2005 more or less as a gift. As my first CD player, a 1987 Technics, my accountant gave me in 1994, the 640C was my first "serious: CD player, unheard and I've never been pleased with the slightly dry presentation , plus the fact that it needed two trips to Canada for serious repair before it was three years old. I should mention the warranty service people were superb and repaired it after the warranty had expired. The original owner replaced it with a Creek 50 and really liked that choice.
My current thinking is to replace the 640C with a Rotel 1072.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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