Gunfight at la mesa

Gunfight at la mesa trailer

Ill also forward your comments on to Audioholics as Im sure theyll want to respond to your unsupported claims that theyre lying in order to benefit financially. The irony is that review sites like yours rely on advertising money that comes from the manufacturers whose gear they assess. Posted on January 19, 2010 8:17 PM First off the not so well hidden insinuations that Audioholics is doing this in order to run down lexicon to pump up oppo sales is petty and quite frankly prepostorous, I can buy an Oppo directly from Oppo themselves no need for Audioholics for this, and I own Lexicon gear the market that Lexicon gear appeals to is different as you yourself said they are not competing for sales. You speak about improvements that Lexicon made but say you dont do measurements and to date the only proof of gunfight at la mesa trailer measuring shows their identical audio and video wise. You speak of better build quality the only difference in that area is strictly visual the outside case, sorry but that doesent add up to 700% increase in price. Getting to the THX issue if indeed the BD-30 passes testing for THX then so should the Oppo they simply are no different, in fact you state here in your own words that Quote:Oppo said that Harmans engineers helped them make the video section of their player better. They also gunfight at la mesa trailer that THX helped to make the unit better because of the Lexicon project. Those changes have been made to the Oppo player as well. If indeed these changes whatever they are have been applied to both players then the Oppo should pass the stringent THX testing as well, but for some odd reason only the Lexicon got the THX stamp of approval, Something stinks here!! I have a feeling a lawsuit or two may well be in the works. Posted on January 19, 2010 8:36 PM Jerry I think its good that you put the comments back up so quickly and I agree that flaming really should not be tolerated anywhere. I also think though that people should be able to disagree constructively, thats one of the big advantages of being able to discuss an article. I have been following this story closely and have done a lot of digging to find out as much as I can so here is my take. And since people on this site seem to like throwing around their qualifications I have a BS and MS in mechanical engineering so Id like to think Im no dummy at least. What really has people fired up here is the blatant price gouging on the part of Lexicon. Yes rebadging is common, that is nothing new, and if Lexicon had taken the Oppo innards, put them inside their fancy case and charged say 700 bucks for it? people would probably be fine with that, get the Oppo if you want value or the Lexicon or if you willing to spend a little more and want a fancy case, no big deal. Its when they charged 3000 more for it that people got really steamed. And they show some real guts or idiocy more likely, by evidently not changing a single thing on the Oppo, as yet they are unable to demonstrate that they have. Now, perhaps they did have some input on the design of the Oppo unit, so what? They are still charging 3500 for a player that is functionally identical to a 500 dollar Oppo. For one thing I find it unsurprising that they dont say what it is they did exactly, for all we know they asked Oppo to change the screw pattern on the bottom so it would match up with their 3000 dollar case better, we simply dont know. But because theyre charging so much we should just assume it must have been something pretty special, right? That is how some of these audiophile companies work, snakeoil, if its really expensive then it must be good. Likewise they are currently claiming that they did change the internals to improve them and justify their price increase but to date they have provided zero documentation to back this claim up. Not a single graph, schematic, photograph, chart, nothing, not one thing. Yet they must have done a lot one would assume, because they are charging 3000 bucks more for it, strange that its taking them so long to document it in any I think you are right that this is a product clearly aimed a different market than the Oppo and lets be clear about what that market is. This is for people who are paying 30, 000 bucks for a custom install and simply check the box for the 3500 dollar Lexicon blu-ray player without doing any research to determine if its worth it. They just assume because the salesman tells them its good and they trust the reputation of the brand that it must be good. Anyone who does any research will realize what a ripoff it is. Finally I have to touch on the quality of this review. I want to say first that I really am not trying to flame and am being as polite as possible.