Cambridge Audio Product Reliability

I have a Cambridge Audio Azur 640C CDP, and after about 3 years the tray developed an intermittent (now constant) hitch that keeps it from loading properly unless you "help" it along, and not always even then. Luckily it's working this moment, feeding into an Audio-GD DAC and playing Wayne Shorter's newest, but I figure it'll be toast soon enough.

I've owned a 640 CD for several years and have had no issues.

Cambridge sells PILES of stuff so you have to wonder what percentage of it breaks...more than other large volume manufacturers? Less? Hard to say, although I'm guilty of being in the camp of avoiding things where people have complained about reliability (human nature I suppose)...Peachtree is a good example of that as some complaints reared up in a thread here. I talked to somebody at Audio Advisor about Cambridge DACs (wondered if the new DAC could use my power supply, "not yet" was the answer) and the guy told me the original DACMagic was their biggest selling item EVER. I wondered how many items that might have been, and now wonder where they went and are the owners happy with the things? I am, but maybe I'm a tin ear fool.

Thanks to all for your responses! It is clear to me now that I am not going to take my hard earned $$ and risk them on Cambridge products again.

I purchased a Cambridge Audio 640C CD Player in Christmas 2004 and used it daily for just about three years. It has since been placed into a secondary system and received very little use since. However, just today I've experienced issues. When I pop in CDs, it takes a couple seconds to read and then automatically ejects. This is for pressed, store-bought CDs (no CD-R material). I guess I'll have to chuck it soon.