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The Oppo is lighter and the buttons have a far less solid feel to them. The Lexicon is a taller, much heftier unit. Black levels were close, but the Lexicon had a more natural contrast and color palette than the Oppo. More importantly, the Lexicon was nearly totally silent when loading discs and changing tracks. Those familiar with the Oppo know it is a rather noisy player when loading discs, switching tracks and scanning, even sometimes for no apparent reason. The drive is in the Oppo is noisy enough to catch my attention during quiet passages in movies, while the Lexicon is inaudible during use at all times. DVD scaling was excellent, thanks to Anchor Bays Reference Series VRS technology. When I watched the seriously twisted John Waters film A Dirty Shame New Line Home Video, iraq for sale the war profiteers part 1 rendering was great. The wildness of Tracy Ullmans hair was resolute, while Johnny Knoxvilles pimp-like Ray-Ray character came across bright and bold, as you might expect from such a snappy dresser. Though not as good as native 1080p, it was certainly a step forward from when I turned the scaling off and let my display do the scaling. Sure, the Lexicon can do excellent video, but it is after all a universal player, so I spun up the SACD release of Miles Davis Kind of Blue Columbia. From the start of the horns on So What to the subtle bass lines of Freddie Freeloader, everything was presented in a smooth and detailed fashion, with iraq for sale the war profiteers part 1 air around the various instruments, and made for great listening. I used Neil Youngs Harvest Reprise on DVD-Audio to further test the multi-channel analog outputs and was pleased with what I heard. While this is not the best recording, the music is timeless and the Lexicon brought these aged tracks to life. A Man Needs a Maid is one of my favorite songs on this album and I was treated to an open and lush rendering of the track. Gone were the edge and glare often found in lesser players. The openness of the piano was excellent. Moving on to The Needle and the Damage Done kept me enthralled with the wonderful way the guitar was portrayed. I switched between the HDMI and analog outputs and preferred the HDMI, as it was more open and distinct, but this is to be expected as the digital signal was now running through the DACs in my 30, 000 reference AV preamp. Read more about the Lexicon BD-30 on Page Thanks for the review. You mention that no other player youve heard of comes with a calibration disc, but later you mention that you acquired a BDP-83SE for comparison. The BDP-83 both stock and SE come with two calibration discs Spears Munsil for video and an AIX disc for audio. Posted on January 15, 2010 8:32 AM This weekend, this review was inundated with anonymous flame posts that we believe was the work of a competing AV company designed to smear the reputation of Lexicon. Many of these flames were written by users hiding under anonymity and had hurtful, factually incorrect statements that do not meet our content guidelines and were deleted. Today, we have changed the way you post comments to meaning that you can use your Facebook account and or create an HTR account. I have also turned the comments back on for this review. We apologize to those who thought that they were censored. Readers who know know that we are strong defenders free speech.