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In Reply to: MARANTZ V CAMBRIDGE posted by JONWSM on July 22, 2003 at 06:41:58:
Hi, I can't speak for the Marantz really. I have owned a Cambridge 500SE for aprroximately 2yrs,although it is currently enroute to Cambridge Audio,CA for repair. IMO a very,very good sounding cd player. Not harsh at all by my standards, if anything it leans to the warm side of the spectrum,but with great detail retrieval and air. I was really surprised by the bass put out by this player (deeper,stronger,fuller than my prevoius) definitely a strength of this player. Good soundstage depth and width though probably not the widest and deepest I've heard,but certainly not flat or dimensionless. Vocals are superb, with a taste
(just a taste) of that tubelike palpabilty. Only caveat would be that it locked up on me 1 1/2 weeks ago,seems to be a LOGIC problem (scans through disc fast on its own,ignores remote and front panel controls).So back to Cambridge for repair. In steps
the Ah!Njoe Tjoeb w/upsampling+Siemens7308 tubes.
I'm at hour# 51 in burn-in. I'll just finish by saying that with all the praise I just lavished on the Cambridge 500SE, it won't be returning to my main system when it comes back from repair. The 4000
has unseated it from that position and is probably the last cd player going into my system (aside from an SACD player of course). The Cambridge is a tremendous buy at even a price-point higher than its $450-475.Hayden
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