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Cambridge Audio Azur 851N now Roon Ready

Only a few weeks ago, Cambridge Audio was able to announce that with the Cambridge Audio EDGE NQ and Cambridge Audio CXN (V2), essential streaming solutions of the English are classified as Roon Ready. Now comes the update for another streaming solution, the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N, which is now also certified as Roon Ready.


Cambridge Audio offers a range of streaming solutions, all based on the Cambridge Audio StreamMagic platform. This offers a number of advantages, including particularly broad support for a wide range of audio formats, including hi-fi audio of course, and direct access to all major streaming services, whether Spotify or TIDAL. In addition, the system uses high-quality signal processing based on the company’s proprietary Adaptive Time Filtering technology, which extrapolates all signals to 24 bits and 384 kHz. A central, convenient control via app is a matter of course. The fact that Apple AirPlay and Google Chromecast are also supported opens up full access to the streaming solutions of the English company, especially for mobile devices.

The latest streaming solutions from the English hi-fi manufacturer, the Cambridge Audio EDGE NQ from the Cambridge Audio EDGE Series, but also the Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) from the Cambridge Audio CX Series are based on this platform.

A uniform platform offers the immense advantage that developers can offer innovations relatively easily on several systems, such as the certification as Roon Ready Device, which Cambridge Audio obtained for the two systems mentioned above at the beginning of March 2020. Cambridge Audio EDGE NQ and Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) are now Roon Ready and can be seamlessly integrated into Roon Labs LLC’s outstanding media management and multiroom audio streaming solution.

From now on, another streaming solution from Cambridge Audio is one of the solutions that can be used directly with Roon to be Roon Ready for the so-called RAAT (Roon Advance Audio Transport) for best quality due to bit-perfect streaming, namely the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N from the Cambridge Audio Azur Series.

With the help of an immediately available firmware update, the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N will also be transformed into a Roon Ready certified streaming device and can take advantage of all the benefits this brings.

Getting to the point

From now on another streaming solution from Cambridge Audio is one of the solutions that can be used directly with Roon to provide Roon Ready RAAT (Roon Advance Audio Transport) for best quality bit-perfect streaming, namely the Cambridge Audio Azur 851N from the Cambridge Audio Azur Series.

Manufacturer:Cambridge Audio
Distribution:Audio Tuning Vertriebs GmbH
Price:free firmware update

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Michael Holzinger

Michael Holzinger, founder and editor-in-chief of HiFi BLOG and sempre-audio.at, has been working for years as a journalist in the fields of IT, photography, telecommunications and consumer electronics.

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