Cambridge Audio CX N network streamer makes it easy to integrate streamed audio into your system

Cambridge Audio have an almost 50-year history of manufacturing quality audio products. There are a lot of audio companies with extensive histories behind them, but the fact that Cambridge Audio has built and maintained such a positive reputation goes to show that their successes are not flukes.

Cambridge’s latest range of hi-fi equipment is the CX series, comprising a couple of stereo amplifiers, multi-channel amplifiers, and a handful of source units. The ideal motivating the production of the CX series is to bring engineering principles normally applied to high-end hi-fi gear to gear at an affordable price level. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, or some such idiom, and our experience of the CX series is that it delivers on its ideals.

There is no ‘weak link’ in the CX series but the CX N network streamer is particularly striking as the stand-out unit in the series. Fitted out with the same ‘floating’ aesthetic as the rest of the series, the CX N is a slick beast. It sports a gorgeous colour screen to enable easy navigation and show off the album art of whatever you’re currently playing.

Dual Wolfson DACs ensure that digital music is decoded with precision while a host of digital and analogue inputs and outputs ensure that the CX N will have no difficulty fitting into and enhancing your current hi-fi system.

Although coming with a sturdy remote, Cambridge’s CX N is best controlled with the use of the Cambridge Connect app on Android or iOS. Through the app, you can access any music on your home network, or cast the net wide with Spotify Connect or Internet radio.

The idea of a network streamer is not exactly new, but what makes the Cambridge Audio CX N stand out is how smoothly it allows you to integrate streamed audio into your hi-fi system – and with such high definition!

If you want to continue hearing us extol the virtues of the Cambridge Audio CX N, make your way to a Stereophonic shopfront today and chat to a staff member!