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RE: Audioholics is on the warpath

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In Reply to: RE: Audioholics is on the warpath posted by Jazz Inmate on January 18, 2010 at 11:54:54

It's hard to judge from the photos, but it certainly doesn't LOOK like Lexicon changed any components. For example the capacitors look the same. If they had switched to Vishay resistors, for example, they would definitely look different from the standard resistors, which look like carbon film for the most part as best I can tell - take a look on Michael Percy's website to see what different resistors look like. The Vishays look a little bit like plastic power transistors, rather than tan colored round small cylinders. So at least there is no VISIBLE evidence that any components were changed. The other main class of components to be changed are the ICs, and I have to assume that Audioholics looked at the labels on the ICs to see if they were different, but maybe that's assuming too much for you.

Bypassing a muting circuit just takes a few wires, and changing the grounding again is mostly a matter of re-routing wiring, unless you redesign a circuit board, in which case why would the circuit boards look the same?

Regardless, I think you're missing the point that all of these changes are relatively INexpensive, whereas what Lexicon is charging is anything but. Back when it was popular to take an inexpensive CD player and modify it with new ICs, resistors and caps most modifiers charged a few hundred bucks. Even allowing for inflation, increasing the cost 5-fold seems excessive, when the only visible "refinement" is the case.

Unless you're of the Steven Wright school of circuit modification, "Last night, someone broke into my house and replaced all my furniture with exact duplicates!"

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