Jackass 2 5 However, HTR seems

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However, HTR seems to have lumped anyone that offered objective criticism in with a few negative people as a way of avoiding several pointed, valid questions. Yes, we underestand the personal attacks were uncalled for. However that doesnt alleviate Lexicon, HTR, or Ken from explaining some of the rather glaring disparities that have been pointed out. The only situation in which those explanations cant be given is if there is something to hide, which I hope isnt the case! Posted on January 19, 2010 6:33 PM I think you hit the nail on the head when you talk about discourse. From Newts Contract with America to You are either with us or against us from our former Commander in Chief to Rush Limbaugh and many others the idea of being able to discuss differing opinions is seemingly gone. Everything is black and white in a world loaded with shades of gray. In the old days of Washington politics Senators could battle it out all day on the hill and then go pound a few scotches while discussing the issues of the day. Nobody is giving Harman credit for helping Oppo make the player better. Oppo said jackass 2 5 true to me DIRECTLY today. THX helped as well. Both on the video front. Posted on January 19, 2010 6:37 PM Ken has the flu and but wants to post when he is feeling a little better. As for his opinions I am sticking with them. His experience reviewing nearly 12 Blu-ray player and having owned or reviewed ALL of the best AV preamps from the Anthem D2v to the Meridian 861v4 to the Krell Evo 707 to the Classe SSP-800 gives him insight that I think if you look into the more audiophile reviewers they simply dont have. If you dont want to agree with Ken thats cool with me and likely Ken. Some of the stuff Ken told me and note: I didnt do the review was that the player is notably more quiet. Its built better. The menus were better or easier as I remember what he told me. Once again, I will allow him to comment. As for the analog output, I have been told no player really does proper bass management from the analog outs. Its for more audiophile use. The old Outlaw ICBM was a good solution in the OLD days of DVD-Audio but today you just use HDMI. People attacked Ken as a reviewer. They attacked him as a doctor. They attacked our publication which has gone from ZERO to 303, 000 monthly readers source: Google Analytics in 18 months. They attacked Peter Tribeman. They attacked everyone. Is anyone questioning the other publications involved? SELLS the Oppo and not the Lexicon. That is fact. Regarding pulling the posts I made the decision and stick by it. I should have had more stringent standards for posting but I wanted more comments to get the publication going. I didnt expect the cyber-terrorism, libel and brand bashing that we saw over this issue. Please note: I changed the technology with in 48 hours over a weekend and reopened the review to posts once people couldnt just make up an email address. Flaming like a loser might be OK on some forums but not on I am sure you understand that. Posted on January 19, 2010 6:46 PM You didnt directly respond to HogPilots 2 points in the post from 5:14PM. 1 On AVSForum, you said once again that Ken says in his review that the Oppo is sufficient jackass 2 5 most does he say that? Please be specific. 2 On AVSForum, you mentioned the THX certification as if it still applies. Please address the facts that the Lexicon does not pass THX benchmarks and Lexicon took the THX certification info off their website. Please address my 2 points and HogPilots 2 really would like answers to these. Posted on January 19, 2010 7:04 PM Firstly, are you saying that you talked to Oppo and that they told you that there are in fact performance-related improvements in the BD-30 over the BDP-83SE? Aside from the claim that the Lexicon is quieter which isnt out of the realm of possibility since they wrapped the Oppo in another skin, Id like to know what specifically Lexicon improved as compared to jackass 2 5 BDP-83SE to warrant the 700% price increase. Again, given the overwhelming evidence that indicates that the Lexicon and the Oppo are physically identical save some aesthetic differences, its hard for anyone to swallow that that the former still outperforms the latter without some sort of objective data pointing to why. That could be measurements, that could be proof of parts being different. But making claims that fly in the face of a significant body of facts and then asking people to simply believe it because we say so has been never been a basis for good reporting. Im sure you understand that.