Cambridge Audio Air User Reviews

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Crashed

Acquired a CA speaker. App has never worked on iPhone 8 or 12. Useless

buy something else!

Not happy at all with this app for my Cambridge Audio system. radio station tiles don’t work, changing station doesn’t work, finding stations can be a terrible experience if you are searching for a station with a generic name e.g. „radio 1“, app is buggy and super slow.

Connection problems

When it works it’s okay. But now won’t find my device. (Tried off/on, delete/reinstall, restart iPad/iPhone)

Favourite stations just don’t play

It’s clunky, won’t play my favourite stations even when I select them, and fails to connect a lot of the time too

Doesn’t do much

This app apparently lets you set auto power down times for two inputs, and play one of ten preset internet radio stations. Can’t find a way to make it do anything else.

The speaker itself is great but what is the point of this app? No need.

Terrible

This is a very poor app. Clicking on the EQ preset options on the app causes the Cambridge Air to freeze, preventing any music play, either streamed or via Bluetooth. Have to reset factory settings every time you touch it by mistake.

Crashes my Audio Air Minx 200

When I try to change the EQ setting all sound is lost and I have to reset the Air Minx 200 to factory settings.

Unfinished

Want to like this, but doesn’t seem to be intuitive. Worked out how to change preset but then couldn’t turn radio off from the app. Could be really useful with some updates.

Don’t work

App won’t connect to my controller, I’m playing music through
it using Spotify yet the app can’t see it?

Useful but limited

The app adds some useful features but it always ruins the EQ and bass - the only solution is to restart the Air 200. The new version does look a lot better but no idea how to save radio stations to a preset

What a crap update, sort it out

Agree with the previous reviewer, update totally messed up the quality of playback with a very limited selection of sound options. Please sort it quick

Bricked my Air 200 speaker

Idiots—that’s who updated this app. It killed my speaker. I’m still trying to work out why. My attention is focused on the presets—one of which I stupidly changed. This crappy piece of software is exactly why I’m ditching audio companies who integrate such BS into their faulty hardware and can’t be bothered with QA. Cambridge Audio and their Chinese manufacturing are nothing short of junk traders... this software is proof of this. PITA.
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Update has ruined my speaker!

I used to have the most amazing sounding speaker until this latest update. Now I have lost about 50% of the volume and the once unbelievable bass has been lost altogether! What were you thinking Cambridge Audio? I hope this is fixed soon.

Finally updated but not much improvement

This app is important in using several expensive audio components. Cambridge does not support their software well examples of this include: sleep timer no longer works and app is glitchy without any support. While Cambridge makes nice electronics, I recommend avoiding them given the horrible software support.
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Useless

This app is totally useless. The so-called instructional video doesn’t play. The so-called options to change the pre-set channels doesn’t exist, at least as far as I can find. In addition, the iPhone set-up instructions for the speaker itself are just wrong. Would be zero stars if available. You’d be better off with a dumb speaker. Cambridge Audio, if you are listening, what on earth are you doing?
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Waste of time

Comments exactly the same as previous reviewer. There seems to be no way now of setting the auto power down duration. I had a previous version of this app which at least worked with the apd function allowing you to have it switch off after a defined length of time. Wouldn’t work as an alarm though. Overall the auto power down function on Minx air is a real let down. It’s particularly annoying if you want to use the speaker when you don’t have a network connection. In this case the speaker shuts down regardless after 30mins. So basically not much use if you want to take it with you if you’re away from home.
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UX bad, flaky, unintelligent, otherwise acceptable

1. Keeps showing welcome screen
2. Crashes out regularly
3. Initial instructions poor

Poor. Useless

I have spent ages reconfiguring with this rubbish app. It is useless. Delete and buy a cable.

Build it and walk away?

It’s near impossible to get any tech support for older gear and this is a case in point. Mine is an earlier version of the Minx speaker and has been a thankless struggle to get to work. This app can ... er... help set the radio stations. And that’s it. Auto time off function disabled? Really?
Poor show. Must do better.
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Constantly crashes

Crashes all the time. Cannot preset from app as stated.