The Well-Tempered Computer, an introduction to computer audio

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Cambridge Audio 751BD Blu-Ray Universal Player

UK's Cambridge Audio announces the successor to its successful Azur 650BD, and the only challenger in town to the throne of universal players currently reign supreme by Oppo 93 and 95, with the new Azur 751BD Blu-ray Universal Player.  In addition to playing any disc known to man, the unit features high quality audio and video decoding.  Using the supplied wireless dongle and any UpNP server, (PC w/Media 7, Apple with Twonky, EyE Connect, or NAS Drive) you can stream your entire music library into the Azur 751BD using exclusive Anagram Q5 up-sampling to get REAL 24-bit native performance without any wires. 

Features
  • Formats decoded: Blu-Ray / BD-3D / DVD Video / Audio / DVD-R/RW / SACD / HDCD / CD / CD-R/RW
  • BD Profile: BD-ROM V2 Profile 2
  • Stereo Up-Sampling to 24/192
  • 7.1ch High Resolution PCM
  • 5.1ch DSD
  • SACD High Resolution
  • Bitstream or Decoding to PCM of Dolby Digital
  • Dolby Digital Plus
  • Dolby TrueHD
  • DTS
  • DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
  • DTS-HD Master Audio
  • 1GB of Internal Memory
  • Twin 1.4 HDMI Outputs
  • Twin USB Connection Ports
  • Ethernet 100BASE-T Connection
  • 802.11 b/g/n Wireless Connectivity Allows Content Streaming
  • Five (5) Wolfson 24/192kHz DACs
  • Up-sampler: Analog Devices ADSP-21261 32 bit running Anagram Q5 upsampling to 24/192kHz (All 10 -channels!)
  • Marvel DE2750 Video Scaler
  • e-Sata External Hard-Drive Connection
  • RS232 Connectivity
  • Video Engine: Mediatek MTK8530
  • Video Scaler: Marvell DE2750
  • Video Frame Rates: 24Hz / 50Hz / 60Hz
  • Ethernet: 100BASE-T
  • Pricing: $1,249.00 MSRP