EX upgrade with MC-1

Posted by Philip Brandes [IP: 24.8.188.112] on October 25, 1999 at 12:31:32
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In Reply to: EX upgrade with MC-1 posted by Bob West on October 25, 1999 at 03:09:40:

Bob,

When you're playing a DTS source and you engage the Bass Enhance feature, it causes a shift of center-steered information to the right. This occurs only on DTS discs (how many do you own?) when using the Bass Enhance feature (which is an option only designed for a rather specific speaker configuration using full range sides--do you have these?). Otherwise, DTS sources will play fine if you leave the Bass Enhance option off. Since Bass Enhance is only an option, you can avoid this bug and still decode the DTS format without spending anything.

So before feeling hurt, you might want to assess how much of an impact this really makes--bugs come in all shapes and sizes, and this one just isn't serious enough to have warranted a separate patch release. I can understand feeling the timing was bad, but the MC-1 has been shipping for six months--your decision to buy when you did wasn't Lexicon's basis for announcing the upgrade within two weeks.

Nor is this fix the only improvement in the upgrade. The $100 being charged gives you an entirely new Surround EX format (a capability that will require most mid-fi owners to REPLACE their processors/receivers). You get other user-requested improvements in the front panel display and a/v sync delay, plus the fix you're concerned about.

If none of the other improvements matter to you, then simply leave Bass Enhance in its default OFF position when listening to DTS discs.

Cheers,
Philip Brandes

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