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Is this cheating?

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:35 am
by Fran
Hehe,

have a look at this, I wonder how many times this has happened. This takes rebranding to the limit!!

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

A quote from another site;
Amazing
The Oppo BDP83 retails for £500 in the UK
Lexicon stick the Oppo chassis in a Aluminium box and RRP is £3500
Thats a USD $4900 mark up.
Quote from the Lexicon website - There are no reviews for this product at this time.
I wonder why?
Theres another famous case of Goldmund doing something similar but I think int hat case they at least did some improvements!!


Fran

Re: Is this cheating?

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:55 pm
by MartinHSabag
Apparently they are not the only one:

http://www.nuforce.com/hi/products/oppo_bdp83se/

Re: Is this cheating?

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:02 pm
by Fran
At least NuForce though are leaving the oppo branding on it and state that its their tuned version. I must research what ESS chip they are using. I know the 9018 in my DAC is very good sounding.


Fran

Re: Is this cheating?

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:37 pm
by jkeny
Fran wrote:At least NuForce though are leaving the oppo branding on it and state that its their tuned version. I must research what ESS chip they are using. I know the 9018 in my DAC is very good sounding.


Fran
According to the Twisted Pair - ES9006 and ES9016 :)