Отзывы о Сетевой аудиоплеер Cambridge Audio Edge NQ

У меня очень хорошая система, и я купил этот ЦАП, чтобы быть ее частью, но...плюсы: качество звука очень хорошее - 7,5 /10. За эти деньги 9/10. минусы: нет пульта дистанционного управления, трудно контролировать громкость и трудно визуализировать, какой источник играет.

BT-External port would not work from the start
USB port worked for a few hours and stopped.
Very disappointing.
Sound quality for the few hrs that it worked- was good.
Not recommended

Sounds great. Very happy. At first, I didn't have any sound and then I noticed that I failed to select the USB source on the front panel of the DAC. Duh. Had to set up my stereo receiver digital coax input port as enabled. I went with the digital coax between the DAC and stereo and am saving my optical fiber cable for something else. The Cambridge Audio website said (if that's where I read this) that a USB 3.0 cable would work between the computer and the DAC but the USB-b side is larger than normal on the newest 3.0 and so did not work. They need to fix that on their site info. Thankfully, the DAC comes with a USB 2.0 A-B cable. Purchased and downloaded J River Media Center to use as a player instead of my PC Itunes that I have used forever. Then spent a few days re-ripping my old CD collection to my hard drive in FLAC format. All in all, new electronics and systems take some tweaking to get them set up and working right. Had to go into computer sound settings and select the DAC as a source. Much better sounding than the sound from my Hi-res graphics card and onboard sound. I still take the video from the graphics card over HDMI but the sound is wired as described above. Oh, the length we music lovers will go to enjoy good music. Well worth it.

Paired this unit with Mac mini running Audivirvana audio playback software and Qobuz music streaming service through circa 1986 Carver M-1.0t magnetic field power amplifier and circa 1986 JBL model 4408 Studio monitors. Sounds incredible.

Linked to a Cambridge power amp. Sounds incredible.

Great DAC for the price. Headphone jack is nice if you don't have speakers. Didn't know what I was missing until I bought this.

PC-> Cambridge DacMagic Plus -> Crown XLS 1502 -> BIC RtR-EV15

Great powerful digital audio on the relatively cheap...

Great sound but no remote control

High quality and inexpensive

I have a massive collection of WAV files on my HTPC and I've been feeding them to my Denon AVR via HDMI for the past three years. I recently decided to build a "decent" sound system in my "man-cave" with a pair of KEF Q300 and an integrated amp - Marantz PM800. I was looking for a decent CD player with a USB input or networkable. I tried out various devices like the Marantz CD6004 with the USB input, but I felt it was lacking and didn't bring out the best of my speakers. I returned the CD6004 and decided different alternatives like SONOS.

I came across the DacMagic Plus on accident while looking at Musical Fidelity M1DAC A. I felt the DacMagic Plus offered more features for less cash. It seemed like a better alternative than the regular DacMagic although both shared the same Wolfson DACs with balance and unbalance out. The Plus offers a few other options that you may or may not need/want.

Plus vs Regular:

Plus cost roughly $150 USD more. For this you get the following.

Plus upconverts to 384KHz compared to 192KHz (Different digital filter chip). Not sure if you will notice any difference with mediocre gears.

Plus can act as a digital pre-amp stage that can drive headphones or be plug directly into an amp or powered speakers.

Plus is capable to stream from bluetooth device with the optional BT100 adaptor. I have not tried this yet as the BT module is not yet available. I am looking forward to this feature!!! I want to be able to stream from bluetooth capable devices like my laptop and smartphone.

Overall, this outboard DAC showed significantly wider soundstage, bass response, and imaging than the DAC in my Blu-ray player and Denon AVR - it's the real deal. It's also warmer and smoother and *gasp* it almost like my vinyls and closer to SACDs. I have a feeling my turntable will collect more dust except for the occasional listening session with recordings I don't have in digital format.

Ease of use: I got the device up and running in less than 30 minutes. About 2 hour after I got it from the UPS guy - as I gave the unit time to warm up to room temp.

Switching between USB2.0 and USB1.1 was a snap. If you are only listening to CD lossless recordings (CDs rip @ 44.1KHz) you could probably stick to USB1.1 and skip all the configurations needed for ASIO2.0.

Switching between pre-amp and fixed line level feed was very easy also. So it's a snap if you want to change from amp to headphones.

The one thing I dislike about this unit is that it doesn't have a power-on trigger.

Durabilty: Not sure yet. First Cambridge product and I hope it will last. The buttons on the unit seem somewhat flimsy and weak. Unit is pretty light so it's somewhat portable. It can fit my laptop bag. I can definetly see myself transporting the unit between work (Quincy Jones Q701 + Smartphone) and home (amp+computer).

So far I will give it my highest recommendation.

Easy to use, great sound!

Pretty good feature set and a very competitive price.

Sound is not as transparent, sound stage is not as 'deep' and the high end (voice, cymbals, other percussion instruments) are slightly rolled off compared to my 10-year old PS Audio Digital Link III (which itself has to be output to a preamp before the power amp. The Cambridge DAC Magic Plus functions as its own 'digital' pre-amp of sorts).

I can hear very little difference between the RCA and balanced XLR outputs going to a fully balanced power amp. Normally you'd get a gain of a few dBs (i.e. louder and more presence) - but perhaps that is due to the fact I'm using it in pre-amp mode. I scanned the reviews here and elsewhere (Crutchfield) before I bought it and couldn't find anything about 'burn in' but perhaps I'll re-visit this review after a few months of play time. I do understand that the Digital Link III is (or was) a reference quality DAC (and used they still sell for more than $500), but I expected the 24-bit Wolfson DACs in the Cambridge to sound comparable.

All of that out of the way, there is very little to complain about at the price point, but if for you absolute sound takes priority over convenience, there are other new and used options out there for roughly the same price with noticeably better performance IF used in a high-end audio system. I suspect that most people here will simply be using it for PC audio with a receiver or basic integrated amp or active speakers. For those uses, the DAC Magic Plus is highly recommended. You're not going to get better sound AND a feature set like this for the same price.

Ordered this device. Worked out of the box. Didn't seem to have any sound of its own. Can't find any negatives.

This USB amp/dac has just about everything I needed for my computer setup. My main gripe is that the volume adjustment has no indicator for how high the volume is. This is more annoying than you would think. Otherwise a great product. Didn't do any measurements but seems transparent. Don't listen to the people claiming that the dac or amp does't "sound" very good or some silliness like it. An amp/dac shouldn't "sound" like anything, it should simply transmit a signal with the highest fidelity possible.

Ok