Enjoy your $2500 aluminum sleeve!

[Hobie-wan]

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/tran ... -outside-1

TL;DR version:

$500 blue ray player sold as a fancier brand for $3000, the only difference being an aluminum outer casing that it was literally slid into.

[Specineff]

Lexicon can gloat that they have achieved the biggest fail of the year so far.

[elvis]

This sort of thing is standard fare for the A/V market. Brand whores salivate over their shiny toys that come off the same factory line as cheap no-name and rebadged stuff costing a tenth the price.

Hell, Monster Cable are still selling stuff at ludicrous mark ups. There's a sucker born every minute.

[Ivo]

Wow...

Ivo.

[enderfall]

Moral of the story: Pick up the Oppo player since it's the best on the market when considering price point, .

But seriously, I know all to well that the same factory in China/Taiwan/etc. that makes the $150 budget blu-ray player likely makes the high end blu-ray players as well, but this kind of customer disservice is unparalleled. Lexicon and THX should be ashamed.

[Hobie-wan]

Yeah, we all know most stuff is made in the same factories but usually there's at least a little bit of difference. A few of the components are different or the cheaper one is missing a few of the filtering capacitors or something. Maybe the fancier one has 1 extra button and the prices are a few dollars different. I can't think of an example of 500% markup for literally sliding a cover over it. Those holes on the bottom for the vents looked like ass.

[aaron]

Hell, Monster Cable are still selling stuff at ludicrous mark ups. There's a sucker born every minute.

i still buy monster instrument and speaker cables, but only because they have the lifetime replacement thingie. but yeah.

[IcKy99]

Hell, Monster Cable are still selling stuff at ludicrous mark ups. There's a sucker born every minute.

i still buy monster instrument and speaker cables, but only because they have the lifetime replacement thingie. but yeah.

i only buy monster instrument cables for that reason, cables tend to get a beating while playing hardcore shows

[aaron]

Hell, Monster Cable are still selling stuff at ludicrous mark ups. There's a sucker born every minute.

i still buy monster instrument and speaker cables, but only because they have the lifetime replacement thingie. but yeah.

i only buy monster instrument cables for that reason, cables tend to get a beating while playing hardcore shows

haha, yeah. exactly.

link me to your band, btw. where are you in CA?

[jfe2]

I feel bad for people who actually spend money on that...