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Cambridge SoundWorks MegaTheater 505 DVD Home Theater System
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Sellling my old rack system- for this home theater in a box.
(5 out of 5) by charles peoples on Nov 27, 2002 (Portland, ME)With sound performance this good, why would anyone buy a traditional rack system (separate components)? This one piece does it all, plays my DVDs, CDs, and has a tuner for radio.
It took me 15 minutes to set it up and get it working, and the sound was really true. Who has an entire weekend to spend figuring out a new system? I have a friend who bought a cheapie home theater in a box, and he is really jealous now. Mine sounds 10x better than his, and has serious power. his is more like a big boom box.
I have this one in my living room, and I really do not miss my old bigger, 10 piece system, and neither does my girlfriend. I am thinking about getting another one for my bedroom, and one for my father who is just ready to get a DVD player, and was thinking of upgrading his old receiver. I think he'll really like this one, and it is a dream to set up. Only drawback is that it's a one disk loader, so can't shuffle. But I guess you can't have it all at this price?:)
It took me 15 minutes to set it up and get it working, and the sound was really true. Who has an entire weekend to spend figuring out a new system? I have a friend who bought a cheapie home theater in a box, and he is really jealous now. Mine sounds 10x better than his, and has serious power. his is more like a big boom box.
I have this one in my living room, and I really do not miss my old bigger, 10 piece system, and neither does my girlfriend. I am thinking about getting another one for my bedroom, and one for my father who is just ready to get a DVD player, and was thinking of upgrading his old receiver. I think he'll really like this one, and it is a dream to set up. Only drawback is that it's a one disk loader, so can't shuffle. But I guess you can't have it all at this price?:)
Stay away if you can
(1 out of 5) by Adam J. Blust on Feb 17, 2005 (Madison, Wisconsin)I'm on my fourth head unit, and this one only works intermittently. DVDs don't play, sound cuts out, on and on. Also, worst remote EVER. What's tragic is that while the head unit is clearly a piece of junk, the speakers are all great, and it sounds fantastic when it works.
Now Cambridge isn't selling these any more. No surprise.
Now Cambridge isn't selling these any more. No surprise.
lots of problems
(2 out of 5) by Brian Ismagil on Nov 15, 2004 (orange county, california)bought this 3 months ago. main unit burned out. base cube has lots of "connection problems". However, when it was working it sounded great. It was very stubborn to play certain dvd's.(took a long time to load many dvd's and cd'd. i am returning it tomorrow.
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DVD player skips all the time
(2 out of 5) by Rebecca A. Taylor on Sep 1, 2004Bought this system based upon the reviews. Bad decision. The system played cd's fine, and the sound was great, but the dvd player skipped all the time. Granted some of the dvd's we tried were a bit old/scratched, but they played ok on a $50.00 dvd player so you would expect them to be ok on one that costs 10X as much.