When you've got the word 'Audio' in your company name, your primary focus becomes pretty clear. However, that doesn't stop Cambridge Audio from venturing into the video domain with OVO players like this one here, the Azur 5400 V2, whose sparkling silver can so easily replace the full moon if only there was a stand that high.

OUT OF THE BOX:-
This was definitely a Cambridge product; you don't even need to read it on the front panel, just lift it. For a 2.8 inch thick OVO player, this 5400 weighs quite a bit, just like its predecessors. And if that isn't enough, the hard-metal silver chassis (which by the way, always has a reason for being there) has Cambridge written all over it. But their greatest design highlights are those round, metallic buttons that pop out ever so slightly from the front-panel. As for the back, the OVO is not needlessly decorated thus keeping the organisation of the player in check.

TECHNOLOGY:-
The 5400 V2 is the 2 year old 5400 with a much needed upgrade: HOMI for video support for 780p/1080L The obvious question is of course 'Why not 1080p?'. Well, quite frankly, any television below the screen size of 50 inches wouldn't be able to show you the difference between 'i' and 'p' at a resolution of lOBO. At least. that's what Cambridge Audio claims. Nevertheless, judging by the mid-end segment the 5400 V2 falls into, it wouldn't have hurt giving it true HO powers.

Getting to that chassis, looking macho isn't all it's doing. Its low resonance and acoustically dampened quality helps the audio chipset out by keeping out any
sort of audio distortion that may be pounding on the player. And there's more the Cambridge boys have done to the 5400 V2's audio processing. They've developed a technology known as Phased Lock Loop system or PLL that gets all the audio clocks to the master MPEG video clock so that jitter is brought down to a negligible level and the audio sync is never lost. This type of technology is the primary vice
to give OVO players what we at AV MAX call 'authority'. And this could've only been thought up by an audio genius watching a OVO on a crappy jitter-heavy player,
only to devise ways to mix the two up in a player of his own.

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REMOTE CONTROL:-
Built with the same metal and organisation the player so rightfully boasts off, this controller is one for the palms. We've felt these before, on previous Cambridge amplifiers, and it never gets easier letting go of them. And if just controlling the player wasn't enough, this remote can take charge of Cambridge amplifiers and receivers too.