The company is now independently owned by James Johnson-Flint, and is based in London as a brand of Audio Partnership.

The company's first product was the 2 × 20W P40 integrated amplifier, which was created by a team that included Gordon Edge and Peter Lee.

The next four years saw a rapid expansion of the business with over 16 new products being launched and with export markets re-established in over 28 countries across the world.

The continued expansion of the company put a strain on both its physical and financial resources and at the end of 1988 Cambridge Audio became part of the Hi-Fi Markets Group.

Internally though, the existing Stan Curtis circuit designs were retained with key new product launches for the DAC2 and DAC3 digital-to-analogue converters and the T40 FM tuner.