I have not tried. To my knowledge there has not been a firmware upgrade for Tidal, but of course there may be other ways to get it. I keep thinking Spotify will add a high Rez service, and haven't really explored Tidal or other services. Been buying high Rez downloads now and then, but quite happy with red book and streaming off of my hard drive. I use Spotify mostly to check out new things or carch up on bands I missed along the way.
Cambridge Audio Azur 851N
Fellow audiophiles,
Does anyone have any experience with Azur851N? How good it sounds? I have had Olive 4HD and Sonos in my HT setup and looking for a better sound. I do fair amount of streaming off Spotify and Amazon and got lot of music stored on my FAT32 USB drive. Azur851N looks very promising (atleast on paper). I will be pairing this unit with a Classe SSP800 and B&W 803's. Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated.
Does anyone have any experience with Azur851N? How good it sounds? I have had Olive 4HD and Sonos in my HT setup and looking for a better sound. I do fair amount of streaming off Spotify and Amazon and got lot of music stored on my FAT32 USB drive. Azur851N looks very promising (atleast on paper). I will be pairing this unit with a Classe SSP800 and B&W 803's. Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated.
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You can get Tidal through Apple air play. The dual Analog devises 1955 dacs are very music ,with the Swiss Anagram Technologies receiver top shelf and everything upsampled 24-368 truly puts noise way out of the audio band. 100s of digital audio radio stations wifi which sounds better then blue tooth. your hard drive plugged in sounds great very good detail and natural warmth not bright sounding others like benchmark 3 a bit better leading edge but does not have the musicality in depth of image .the supplies to the Mytech Brooklyn dac .theysound good but if you want a bit morgrip and body without being syrupy warm Analog devises has been a class leading designer in the U.S for years. One more thing almost 18 lbs, big internal Torroid transformer ,and power supply for digital. the Sony was good but older technology it does have a built in hard drive . He external drive is easy to remove ,and replace with solid state drive or any Nas drives. |
@lalitk Only via AirPlay or with any computer attached. For those who enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth, you can play media straight from a WiFi connected smart phone or tablet, which @audioman58 pointed out above. It may be off-topic, but I enjoy my 851N so much so that I recommended the CXR-120 receiver to a colleague. The setup was difficult and the user interface is nothing like the 851N’s. I had recommended it to another friend but revoked my recommendation based on this experience. This happened before he got around to purchasing it (phew!). |
I have had the 851N for about 18 months and it's also my DAC. I was very disappointed for a while because Cambridge told me, fairly recently, they had no plans for Tidal integration. I have been using a HEOS Link for Tidal. Then I saw this on the Cambridge website : https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/usa/en/blog/tidal-cambridge-audio-lossless-streaming-our-cxn-851n-network-players I have been thinking hard about getting a Bluesound Node 2 until I saw this. The 851N should be a better solution with it's large power supply and integrated design. Hope it comes soon and hope the app gets a major upgrade. |
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