Cambridge Audio CXN100: The Streamer Your CD Player Doesn't Want You to Know About

[Music] hi this is Kevin De from upscale audio and today I'm here with one of our newest employees Jordan Hey Kevin Hey Jordan all right Jordan just joined how long have you been with us oh getting close two and a half months two and a half months but he is a digital tweak and when we met him we knew that we had to hire him and today is such a great day that's why I'm wearing my tree of life shirt because I'm thinking about my the people in the company we just had a a lunch party for Jared who was kind of like a one of our oldest employees he turned 43 today and he started working for me when he was 18 years old and he created our first website way back in the day and now he works in purchase he's just a great guy you know and there's all these people I don't know how many people we had 25 people or something all having sandwiches singing and I go man I just dig this stuff you know and I'm talking to Jordan and he says he was playing Black Sabbath Paranoid and that kind of shocked me it's like there is hope for this world I'm aging out quick folks I looked in the picture in the mirror today and I'm getting man boobs everything's going to hell in a hand basket all right what are we going to talk about here today Jordan sure we have the new Cambridge cxn 100 which is so far an amazing streamer oh my God and this is the only unit in the US that is here to see they sent it to us so we could have a head start and understand it do a video about it I love Cambridge because they are the the real deal so um I now the the previous model of this was called the the uh cxn V2 right and it won what did It win a big award from what Hi-Fi right that was uh product of the Year 2023 from what hii hell yeah and so when you have a product that is that good it's going to be difficult to top it so uh their chief engineer his name is Charlie uh Char Charlie Crosby Crosby mhm they put him on this because he's one of their Chief guys over there right and he spent hundreds of hours not I mean they did some stuff in the digital section right they went from they went from the uh dual wolson deck to the es saber deck right you know so they made a change there and I think the reason they did that is they wanted to have a little bit more uh resolving yeah feeling I think I would definitely agree so the highs on this unit are crisp and clear so far in my experience I'm uh lucky that I have the most amount of listening time as of the moment so yeah yeah yeah and it is badass so they want something and they did that not just by changing the Dax they did that by coming up with new opamps and they came up with uh a new style of capacitor that are more efficient and um and the results speak for themselves right hands down they do right man and what I love about it and what tripped me out cuz I saw this guy listening to to It Black Sabbath Paranoid on this beautiful screen on the front which the old model didn't have that right uh old one had a screen but it's not as great as the one that we have here oh it didn't look like that right yeah yeah yeah and this thing looks like it's something that cost you know $2500 I mean it really does it really does actually yeah and it really is super high performance and go to our website and click on it and you're going to see just what a smoking deal it is now what does it have for how do it work sure so this is actually very easy to set up and get started uh it uses the stream Magic app which this is a Gen 4 product the the beauty of it is once it's connected to the internet either wired or Wireless you're able to update the unit without having do anything really extra yeah it's like a Tesla automobile overthe aair updates I love that kabas is instituted that these guys have instituted it I mean some manufacturers don't even give you that option I'd have to say kind of most of them yeah most yeah very few will allow that their products to do that so this is going to stay up to date now uh what about uh inputs outputs what what can you use for apps and and all that stuff sure so you actually have a quite a big variety of uh usages for it especially with streaming services of course we're looking at a streamer so internally in the stream music app you can use tidal cobal and dieser but it does still have support for chomecast Spotify connect as well as Apple play Apple airpl 2 which is currently what we have on the screen right now right okay but what about the inputs and outputs the last one you had to use a dongle to get Wi-Fi right correct and now you've got now we have uh two antenna one is going to be for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and the other one's just a Wi-Fi only antenna they're really small and discreet which I prefer I have an AVR at home and they use giant like 2in antennas so it doesn't look as modern as I would hope so okay but this guy here does give you options for connectivity using either single-ended RCA or XLR which I don't know many units that can give you XLR especially single ended out and balanced out how badass is that right yep yep and then it's got tons you got digital inputs and outputs right yep so you could use it for either putting a other device into here and using this as a streamer or as a Dack or you can use a separate Dack if you want to get a different flavor of audio right on okay then I see you over here you've got USB mhm you can change the grounding you can now that's really cool uh and I don't want to get into it but you out there that have you had a lot of Hi-Fi you know sometimes you have uh ground Loops that can occur especially if you have this thing hooked up and somehow it's getting to your cable system and then you end up with uh all kinds of stuff and I cannot think of another company doing that somebody must be but that's super impressive especially at this price range and then you've got ethernet and then you got USB from media right correct so and you have a service port yep if you have anything such as a uh hard drive or an SSD you can connect this directly into here all right now so I dig Rune okay I I live in that uh Universe at home uh and this is a rune endpoint right it is okay but how is the app cuz I didn't actually get to play with it sure using the app is actually pretty easy and intuitive if you are used to other streaming services it's kind of straightforward once you log in you do have full access to their entire Library which I mean I'm a little bit of a fan of title myself but I hope one day we can get kobal on my account we have cobz I don't have it yet well we'll take care of that I know somebody I know a guy we'll get you a cobz yeah we'll get you whatever you want I mean that and cobz is and I got to say something to the old people out there that if you're still playing CDs I know people that are stuck in that I got it you got to listen to what I'm telling you stop think about the albums there's going to be one song off of a CD that you will never go out and buy that CD for there is so much music for you to remember from the old days that maybe you even forgotten about or there's new things that you can discover and you're going to go to your grave not going through that experience and I'm telling you this I've got probably I've got easy 5,000 CDs but you know what uh we're at a place right now where uh streaming out performs compact disc quality period end of story so listen to what I'm going to tell you it's like 20 bucks a month are you out of your mind and this is so inexpensive buy one if you don't like it send it back we got a return policy and you know and talk to people like you know Jordan here Jordan is are you on commission no who is no one that I know of exactly they don't work on commission we want you to be happy we want to listen to what your needs are we got the best service department so go to our website come to our beautiful store in Southern California say hello we'll get you hooked up into some kind of a religious cult in Los Angeles you're going to have a great time thanks for shopping oh thank you Jordan and thanks for shopping upscale audio

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Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 03 2024