Lexicon rv-5

[guitarzen67]

Hey gang,
Just bought me a Lexicon RV-5 for a price I just couldnt pass on. In you all's opinion, will I have major problems with 1.3 components being plugged into the Lex's 1.1???

Thanks.

[MrBoylan]

Hey gang,
Just bought me a Lexicon RV-5 for a price I just couldnt pass on. In you all's opinion, will I have major problems with 1.3 components being plugged into the Lex's 1.1???

Thanks.

Hi, and welcome to the forum! As long as the HDCP passthrough is OK on the Lexicon, then really the only major limitation in the Lexicon's HDMI 1.1 implementation vs. a more recent HDMI implementation is the lack of processing for the latest lossless audio codecs (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio). But since most recent Blu-ray players include on-board decoding of these new lossless codecs to multi-channel L-PCM, you should actually be fine. Just set your player's digital output to PCM mode (instead of bitstream) and the Lexicon will get a multi-channel PCM digital signal which it can then convert to analog for amplification.

Of course, this is all based on the assumption that the Lexicon does do HDMI 1.1 audio decoding (which means multi-channel PCM). IF the Lexicon is video pass-through only, then you'll need to either do lossy decoding over fiberoptic or coax, or get a player with multi-channel analog outputs and use those. But I'm pretty sure the Lexicon does do on-board multi-channel PCM via HDMI.

What you will *NOT* be able to do is hook up a Blu-ray 3D player (HDMI 1.4) via HDMI to this preamp/processor. The 3D video signal cannot be passed through this HDMI connection. At least one of the new Blu-ray 3D players (the Panasonic BDT350) includes dual HDMI outputs for just this reason: the HDMI main output (with 3D) goes to the display while the HDMI suboutput (audio only), goes to the preamp/processor. Again, as long as you set the player to PCM output, it should actually work fine with this processor.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

-Chris

[guitarzen67]

Great!! Thanks Chris. Cant count how many "Experts" have told me the oposite. Now that I have a living room full of speakers, receiver, wide-screen, turntable and audio rack (all still in the box) I can move forward on my hunt for the right Blu-Ray player.

Thanks again...