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| Sound Quality | 10/10  |
|---|---|
| Features | 10/10 |
| Value for Money | 9.8/10 |
| Overall rating | 9/10 |
By Mark Flury
on 5th Aug 2004
| Time Tuner Owned | Over 1 Year |
|---|---|
| Sound Quality | 10/10 |
| Features | 10/10 |
| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 Mark Flury's recommendation | |
Excellent Sound Quality, works a treat.
Band III only, no L-Band reception.
The Cambridge Audio DAB300 is my 4th DAB tuner (!) since 2001, after a Videologic DRX601E and 2 Arcam DT81's, all of which failed. As I live near Crystal Palace, that could have something to do with it, but no problems with the Cambridge, even considering I use the wire aerial supplied indoors.
Set-up was simple and I like the way the Cambridge scans for stations when it's switched on.
Reception is amazing, particularly on live Radio 3 concerts, you almost feel like you are there in the audience and Radio 4 speech sounds fine, although annoying in mono, when my FM tuner with the same programme is in stereo.
In all am very pleased with it: will be buying more Cambridge Audio gear when my present Hi-Fi needs replacing.
Also I might add the excellent customer service from Richer Sounds, unlike Sevenoaks HiFi, where I had major problems getting a refund after the 2nd tuner (replacing a faulty 1st one) also developed the same fault and before returning my money, they made lots of lame excuses why they couldn't do a refund, (on that score I wonder if some of their staff used to work for another High Street electrical store?!)
The Arcam costs me £650 and the Cambridge DAB 300 (I paid £150) beats it hands down!
The only niggle is that there is no L-Band. The Arcam had L-Band, but it didn't work long enough for me to use it!
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Total Respect: +1
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