Thursday, July 4th 2024

Cambridge Audio Launches the Melomania P100 Wireless Headphones

Cambridge is excited to launch the first over-ear model in the award-winning Melomania wireless headphones series - Melomania P100. Melomania P100 builds on over 50 years of audio expertise and an unashamed passion for music to deliver truly emotive sound from meticulously tuned premium drivers and Hi-fi-grade Class AB amplification.

World-class 60-hour battery life (extending to 100 hours with noise-cancelling turned off) ensures that the effortlessly engaging listening experience could easily last a working week or a lengthy holiday. P100 joins the recently launched M100 true wireless earphones to form the new Melomania range for 2024.
GREAT BRITISH SOUND SINCE 1968
As with all Cambridge products, P100 has been designed, tuned and engineered at our own London music venue and HQ, Melomania, by the same passionate team behind our award-winning Hi-fi equipment.

A custom 40 mm premium three-layer composite driver with neodymium magnets has been matched with Class AB amplification, as used on Cambridge's highly acclaimed CX Series Hi-fi amplifiers, for incredible sound quality - deep, controlled bass, realistic vocals and beautiful treble clarity.

To ensure this combination of premium driver and class-leading amplification is allowed to reach its full potential, P100 is packing Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless wireless technology. This enables wireless playback in CD quality with no lossy compression.

The Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) offers three user-selectable settings to give the best user experience.

CUSTOMISABLE SOUND
Right out of the box, P100 is tuned to deliver the acclaimed Cambridge sound - transparent and natural, taking you closer to the music without distorting it. But everyone is different, not just in their tastes but in how they hear. That's why P100 offers a full array of options to help you find the sound that suits you.

Within the Melomania Connect control app, audio can be personalised to the listener's taste. A seven-band EQ can be used to tweak the sonics manually to an astoundingly precise degree, while six presets are offered tailored to multiple music genres.

P100 supports Gaming Mode, which ensures near-perfect screen/sound sync while playing the latest games, and can correct syncing issues with certain video content. Latency has been reduced to just 80 ms.

ALL-WEEK BATTERY & WEARABILITY
P100 offers up to 60 hours of playback from just a single charge with ANC activated, or 100 hours with ANC switched off. That's enough for a week of work calls or listening to music and podcasts by the hotel pool.

Fast charging means that just 5 minutes of charge time offers another 2 hours of ANC-enabled playback or 4 hours without ANC. Never be caught short again.

For an ultra-comfortable fit, the earcups have pads made from carefully selected memory foam covered in faux leather. Enormous amounts of time and testing have been put into selecting the ideal clamping force to suit the largest variety of head sizes.

ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS
The new Melomania development gave us an opportunity to focus on using sustainable materials wherever possible. We've introduced 50% recycled plastic, and P100 are also shipped in 100% recyclable plastic-free packaging. Importantly for even greater longevity of use, P100's battery and earcup pads are all user-replaceable.

This drive to create a more sustainable product builds on Cambridge's support as Founding Donor of the eco-music charity EarthPercent, which was co-founded by the iconic Brian Eno.

Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 is available from July 2024 at cambridgeaudio.com and Amazon, priced at £229/€279/$279 and in a choice of white or black finishes.

Source: Cambridge Audio
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9 Comments on Cambridge Audio Launches the Melomania P100 Wireless Headphones

#1
Chrispy_
Oh cool.

How much exposure do you non-Brits get to Cambridge Audio? I've been using it half my life with no complaints but I figured it was a UK-only company that's almost the in-store brand for Richer Sounds - turns out Cambridge Audio is still an independent company, but Julian Richer owns a 51% stake, alongside Mordaunt Short, Opus, and Gale.
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#2
Onasi
@Chrispy_
Mostly through DACs and AMPs and other assorted audio products. CD and Vinyl players too, I believe. Not so much headphones. In fact, I believe these are their second ones after a set of wireless IEMs? Mostly went into the same “not worth the price” bin with the advent of Chinese HiFi gear in the past decade or so, at least for me. Guess I am not alone though, if they started pursuing mainstream-ish market nowadays. Gotta make that bread somehow.
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Dristun
Chrispy_Oh cool.

How much exposure do you non-Brits get to Cambridge Audio? I've been using it half my life with no complaints but I figured it was a UK-only company that's almost the in-store brand for Richer Sounds - turns out Cambridge Audio is still an independent company, but Julian Richer owns a 51% stake, alongside Mordaunt Short, Opus, and Gale.
Ever-present brand in audiophile stores around here, has its fans. Though speakers are much rarer than DACs, amps and so on.
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Chrispy_
DristunEver-present brand in audiophile stores around here, has its fans. Though speakers are much rarer than DACs, amps and so on.
I've only ever used their DACs and amps, still using a decade-old (at least) DacMagic to power my desktop's 8" monitors.
I don't think anything Cambridge Audio makes is particularly fancy, it's just good-quality, simple, no-nonsense hardware.
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Dristun
Chrispy_I've only ever used their DACs and amps, still using a decade-old (at least) DacMagic to power my desktop's 8" monitors.
I don't think anything Cambridge Audio makes is particularly fancy, it's just good-quality, simple, no-nonsense hardware.
Their $1200 CD Transport begs to differ, haha! But otherwise I agree. Though with russians, generally, things are a bit different - as most audiophiles are older and were born in the soviet days, for them foreign stuff had the fancy cachet by default and for many still has. And they were right - soviet audio equipment was for the most part inferior.
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#6
stimpy88
The first time I read that headline, I could have sworn it said Melanoma... :D
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#7
The Quim Reaper
stimpy88The first time I read that headline, I could have sworn it said Melanoma... :D
Same here...a nice pair of cancer cans.
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#8
Scrizz
stimpy88The first time I read that headline, I could have sworn it said Melanoma... :D
same here :laugh: :roll:
I'm like that name sounds like a disease. Maybe I shouldn't buy it. :D
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#9
Totally
stimpy88The first time I read that headline, I could have sworn it said Melanoma... :D
Did a double take myself.
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