The Ultimate Step in Digital Home Audio

"Editors' Choice" Award Winner 2007

Welcome to the ultimate step in digital home audio. Cambridge Audio makes a breakthrough advance in music access, storage, and enjoyment with its revolutionary Azur 640H music server.

Thanks to its audiophile grade Wolfson WM8740 24-bit/96 kHz DAC, the Azur 640H sounds far superior to any music server we have ever heard before!

Award Winning Performance

The Azur 640H won an "Editors' Choice" award in the Winter 2007 Home Theater Buyer's Guide from The Perfect Vision magazine.

"The Azur 640H is one of our favorite media servers, because it is reasonably priced, supports server-to-server networking in multi-room applications, and -- above all -- offers superb sound quality," reports The Perfect Vision.

"It Was Worth the Wait"

"It's a solidly built piece of kit, with an attractive front panel, a nice clear screen and a smattering of well-tooled controls on the fascia," observes Shaun Marin in his June 12, 2005 review for England's AVReview.co.uk. "It may have been a long time coming, but yep, it was worth the wait. The 640H is an amazing piece of kit, offering excellent CD playback and an intuitive and powerful music database."

"Come see for yourself what this networked darling can do," suggests the September 2005 issue of Stuff magazine, which calls the 640H the "Show Star - Best of CES."

Top-of-the-line CD Player Onboard

Sure, it's got a top-of-the-line CD player on board. But that doesn't even scratch the surface of this extremely capable component. The Azur 640H music server is an audiophile-quality hard-disk server which incorporates the high-quality CD player from the Azur 640C. It allows you to load your entire music collection onto the 160 GB hard drive. The hard drive can store over 3,000 uncompressed songs or 30,000 compressed songs.

A wide range of playback formats supports the full gamut of the most popular compressed audio files. The Azur plays Windows Media Audio, MP3, AAC (MP4), plus wav .snd .mpa .mp2 .mp3 and many other common music files.

Want music to take with you? The Azur 640H also lets you burn the content that you want from the hard drive to a CD-R or CD-RW disc. And the simple, on-screen user interface makes all of this capability easy to enjoy. And it boasts wireless connectivity, too.

"Cambridge Audio spared no mental expense in designing the 640H," marvels AboutAudio.com. "A great feature, the Wi-Fi wireless connection, is a main attraction with this model, allowing for professional-quality multiple room sound systems without the need for extra cabling. One needs to connect two or more 640H's to create a multiple room system."

Network and Internet Access

Built upon Cambridge Audio's proprietary AudioFile technology, the Azur 640H music server can access music stored on any PC or Mac when used with a wireless or wired network. Multiple Azur 640H music servers can even be linked so that content on each can be seamlessly accessed by each other. You can even use its wireless capability to effortlessly create a multi-room hi-fi system.

The Azur 640H music server can download songs from Internet services, transfer music to and from hard disk portables or stream directly via the Internet, such as Internet radio stations. When connected to a broadband network, the Azur 640H music server instantly retrieves artist, album, and track information using an advanced web-based look-up system.

AudioFile Technology

Cambridge Audio's exclusive AudioFile technology is a suite of proprietary embedded software developed to manage storage, transfer and playback of music in a real hi-fi environment. Unlike a PC or widely available music streamers, AudioFile is designed as a hi-fi separate and offers instant start-up and shut-down. It uses an audiophile grade Wolfson WM8740 24-bit/96 kHz DAC instead of a soundcard for infinitely superior sonic performance.

AudioFile technology provides full system control using the clear LCD display on the Azur's front panel and the ergonomically arranged front-panel controls. Or access the comprehensive on-screen display through your TV using the remote control for complete command of the 640H from the comfort of your favorite armchair.

"Five Star" / "Best Buy" CD Player, Too

The 640H incorporates the high-quality CD player from the Azur 640C. The December 2003 issue of What Hi-Fi? magazine says of this CD player, "The 640C goes way beyond what we'd expect of a player at this price." It earns a 'perfect' rating of FIVE STARS from this respected British audiophile journal. "This is a fine all-round performer, capable of scaring a few pricier machine."

A January 2004 What Hi-Fi? review marvels, "There's not much this side of $800 that can touch the 640C." According to the review, the 640C "goes way beyond what we'd expect of a player at this price and is capable of scaring a few costlier machines." This Group Test Winner "bites at the heels of more expensive models and offers stunning value for money."

England's Hi-Fi Choice magazine awarded the 640C its coveted "Best Buy" rating in its special Awards 2003 issue. "This elegant budget player can hold it's own in very elevated company," concludes the review."

Separate Circuit Sections Nuke the Noise

The Azur 640H music server has been carefully designed to keep audio electronics completely separate from higher noise electronics such as power supplies. This enables the Azur 640H to deliver infinitely superior audio output.

Like the award-winning 640C, the 640H music server features a Wolfson chip and filter for huge dynamic range, clarity and low distortion. An audiophile toroidal oversize transformer is used where most competitors use a PC power supply.

The King of Connectivity

The Azur is the king of connectivity. It's back panel bristles with jacks and outlets for comprehensive hook-up to computer and AV gear. Included are connections for Ethernet, USB V2.0/1.1 (two on rear, one on front), PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, composite video, S-Video, VGA, SPDIF digital out, and optical digital out.

For command and control, you'll find RS232, IR emitter in and out (modulated), and Control bus in and out (unmodulated) connections. A high-quality detachable IEC AC power cord comes with the Azur, too.

A Superior Chassis, Too

Like the rest of the Azur range, the Cambridge Audio 640H Music server employs a specially designed low resonance, acoustically damped chassis, which takes in a thick aluminum front panel for ultimate rigidity. Available in black or silver, the 640H also features a full function bespoke remote control with hot keys and alphanumeric keys to enable you to search your music collection alphabetically - either by album, track or genre.