By SN
Saturday January 16, 2010
Slashdot – Jan. 16, 2010:
“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.”
It’s shocking enough that people are willing to spend $500 for a Blu-ray player, but $3500?! My $250 PS3 is more than good enough for me.
But it sounds so good with my Monster cables…it really does…Monster research proves it too.
#21 Must be the same researcher hired by Al Gory
look at the slashdot thread and you will find someone defending the denon ethernet cables all the while claiming he’s not an audiophile nut.
Well at least Onkyo takes THX certification seriously. I have their THX system and it was only $900, complete with sub, 7.1 speakers and amplifier.
People who pay $10,000 for a turntable, $5000 for an audio cable or $2000 for a wooden volume knob deserve to be ripped off.
Oh yeah, my Monster cables are THX certified. That makes all the difference too.