Cambridge Audio NP 30 - At Last!

After over a year of waiting, the NP 30 is finally coming to the UK.

Priced at £399 it sits between the Logitech Touch and the Cyrus Stream X, but closest to the Logitech in both price and funcitionality, given that it contains a DAC.  It will be interesting to see how the sound quality compares.

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Being uPnP based it doesn't need software installing on a PC or on a NAS and that's got to be a good thing.  Also good to see that it has a coax SP/DIF output so that other, better, DACs can be used when the time comes to upgraded.  Looks good too - purely on the cosmetics it looks like a more up market product compared to the DACMagic.

There's an Apple iWotsits app which looks fine in the screenshots - it will be interesting to see if it can overcome the issues of lag that many of these apps suffer from.

I look forward to the reviews.

Cambridge Audio NP30 - Still on the Horizon?

CA have been touting this device for about 10 months now. Supposedly with Wolfson DACs, but not using the same circuitry nor config as the DACMagic.  It streams from a network, from USB and internet radio.

But still no sign of it yet, with the nearest I've seen to anyone saying its actually available coming from Stereophile:

http://www.stereophile.com/content/cambridge-audio-np30-network-music-player