THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player

SchlimpyChicken writes "Lexicon and THX apparently attempted to pull a fast one on the consumer electronics industry, but got caught this week when a couple websites exposed the fact that the high-end electronics company put a nearly-unmodified $500 Oppo Blu-ray player into a new Lexicon chassis and was selling it for $3500. AV Rant broke the story first on its home theater podcast with some pics of the two players' internals. Audioholics.com then posted a full suite of pics and tested the players with an Audio Precision analyzer. Both showed identical analogue audio performance and both failed a couple of basic THX specifications. Audioholics also posted commentary from THX on the matter and noted that both companies appear to be in a mad scramble to hide the fact that the player was ever deemed THX certified."

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Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'm AC, like that is a good argument. You are full of shit suggesting that the difference in wire length in CAT* means shit considering the signal levels are converted to digital. Your Ethernet cables either work or they don't. That is the whole point of using digital transmission. POTS systems are analog as are balanced XLR audio signals. Again, please demonstrate that you have any clue why the pairs are twisted. You can even use wikipedia if you want. This test will not be marked.

Re:Haha, and some people ridicule me....

[TheGratefulNet]

I took another tact; dump my 'receiver' and go full DIY route. I have all home-built DACs, preamps and amps. all using really decent components (not boutique but just regular japanese panasonic FM low ESR caps, etc), high quality ground-planed pc boards and carefully built by hand (my hand) and tested and aligned using test gear.

if this kind of hand-made gear was sold on the open market it would cost $5000 (in that range) for this level of gear. but you can SEE the quality in the build, in the design (peer review and vetted) and my gear will last 10 years or more. I can't remember the last time I got a yamaha or sony to last 10 years!

custom DIY gear can also be built with discrete components. almost no commercial gear is done this way, anymore.

I almost cry when I see people paying upwards of $1k for a 'receiver' when I know full well the crap parts and assembly (and design) that went into it.