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those big thru-hole caps on the audio board look interesting. I'd love to get my hand on a unit to see if they are beneficial or not. Some people may not realize that part quality means nothing if the layout and placement of parts causes their own issues.

It's not a career goal for me but if anyone wants to submit an Oppo based BD player to me to have a look, I will certainly do that. I prefer to get a new player so nobody cries foul play that the unit was defective after we test it however.

THX Update All; THX sent me another followup email based on the Oppo comments I added yesterday. I added their comments as shown below: Incidentally THX also personally invited me to come out to their facility sometime during the next few months to take a tour and discuss their...

Regarding Jerry's comments about the Audioholics E-store I just posted this on AVS: The thread is located here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1166176&page=20&highlight=audioholics

Here is what I added to the THX Response page. It may take 24hrs to show up due to our site caching over several servers. I also emailed THX and Lexicon of this update.

This is really a bizarre situation. Not sure why Jerry is attacking us for posting facts about both players but if it empowers him then sobeit. I sent an email to Oppo and they claim to have worked directly with THX. I also asked permission from Oppo to make the following statement which they...

this isn't all much different than: Attack of the Clone Processors Attack of the Clone Amplifiers A friend of mine in the industry said you wouldn't believe how many loudspeakers are produced from the same assembly plants in china. Often a part or different color cone is swapped to...

Hey guys this is all fascinating stuff but you should probably ask permission before posting private emails. It's always a pet peeve of mine when someone posts a personal email response I gave to them on AVS or other forums especially if its used out of context. This is indeed a strange...

Ron; If you read my test supplemental report of the 83SE you will find my recommendations around the issues I discovered: http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/t.../oppo-bdp-83se Just set your speakers to large and their won't be a distortion issue, especially since you aren't using a sub...

Sure it can if the stock Oppo meets all of the THX requirements.

For what its worth, I found this on AVS which is a statement Lexicon apparently made about their player prior to our review: Link to the AVS thread here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1166176&page=12&highlight=audioholics

I hope that is not the case as I don't ever want to limit our access to companies for products to review. Perhaps they will instead use the criticisms we provided to produce an improved player.

If THX tested the analog outputs this would have never been the case hence why its my opinion that the THX certification should also support their legacy devices and connection methods.

I updated my tests by request of AVS members:

I can tell you that reporting our findings like this made us no friends in the industry. We were really disappointed in this as we were hoping Lexicon would have put some cool tweaky parts in the player to give our Audio Precision test gear a nice workout. I love tweaky stuff that can be...

Hey we got slashdotted! http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...Blu-ray-Player Fascinating review they conducted:) The publisher of that site is slamming us saying we are pro-Oppo b/c we sell them in our E-store. Hmm interesting viewpoint considering we posted several articles showing...

We are still trying to figure out what those improvements are since we didn't see any and they didn't disclose any. :rolleyes:

I added the following statement on the THX page to appease the Lexicon owners. Alternatively, a fellow Lexicon owner on AVS Forum pointed out that the end user can in fact have the BD-30 player do the decoding and pass the multi channel PCM data out of the HDMI output where the processor can...

I already asked via email and got no reply. I think they are at the NAAM show now. I don't believe this upgrade is possible without a hardware update but I may be wrong. I will let you know.