{"id":6,"date":"2010-01-18T22:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-01-26T04:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:41:58","slug":"badge-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Badge Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that high-end brand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexicon.com\/\">Lexicon<\/a> has released a Blu-ray player which is really the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oppodigital.com\/blu-ray-bdp-83\/\">Oppo BDP-83<\/a> with Lexicon cosmetics. Audioholics makes a pretty convincing case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audioholics.com\/reviews\/transports\/high-definition-dvd-players-hd-dvd-blu-ray\/lexicon-bd-30-blu-ray-oppo-clone\/oppo-inside-lexicon-outside-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing wrong with that, necessarily, except that Lexicon insists that it has tweaked the unit and according to Audioholics tests, it&#8217;s pretty hard to see how it could have. Oh, and apparently the Lexicon BD-30 costs some $US3,000 more than the $499 Oppo!<\/p>\n<p>Well, you do find these things. The NAD T587 Blu-ray player was essentially a prettier looking LG BD300 Blu-ray player. Some companies never developed their own DVD players from the ground up, and even today use the internals from some other brand.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least Lexicon chose what seems to be the best Blu-ray platform presently on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that high-end brand Lexicon has released a Blu-ray player which is really the Oppo BDP-83 with Lexicon cosmetics. Audioholics makes a pretty convincing case here. Nothing wrong with that, necessarily, except that Lexicon insists that it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}