What will I notice?

Posted by Sanjay Durani [IP: 209.240.200.57] on February 25, 1999 at 01:40:14
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In Reply to: What will I notice? posted by Peter M. on February 24, 1999 at 23:20:25:

Peter:

Oooooooh, yesssssss! It's really worth the cost of trading up. If you were thinking of getting a used DC-1 and needed that extra little nudge, buddy you came to the right forum!

Seriously though, since I haven't heard your receiver I can't tell you how different the Lexicon will sound in comparison. However I can tell you the one reason I opted for the DC-1: logic steering. I have yet to find a company that does it better than Lexicon.

90 percent of what I use the DC-1 for is music listening. Excepting for a handful of dts CDs, all the other music I have is two channel. It was the DC-1s ability to create/extract 7.1 channels out of 2 (and to do it well!) that first sold me. I continue to like it because the logic steering keeps improving through periodic upgrades. And it wont go useless with the advent of multi-channel music; my dts discs (music AND movies) sound noticeably better with the surround channels steered.

The biggest difference I hope you'll notice is how precise the soundstaging will be. With most CDs, music & vocals are locked front & centre; and the surrounds give you a very enveloping sense of space. It's not perfect (what is), but each improvement/upgrade seems to reduce the 2 main problems of logic steering: poor channel seperation & pumping. Indeed the version 2.0 software in my DC-1 gives the impression of 7 discrete channels, with almost no leakage of dialogue/vocals.

If you do opt for a Lexicon processor, see if it's feasble to trade in your receiver towards the DC-2, even the entry level model - you can build up from there.

Whichever Lexicon you get, the single most important thing I can ask you to do is to get SEVEN channels of amplification and extra pair of speakers for the rear. It's with a 7.1 speaker set-up that these processors truly shine! Especially on music.

Others in the forum will be able to give you a better idea than I can of the DC-1 as a home theatre/cinema processor. (Aw hell, just bite the bullet an

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• What will I notice? - Jerry Levy 08:52:22 02/25/99 (0)

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