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boingoman said:Actually the converters on my MPX500 sound pretty good, God's help or not.
God stopped helping Lexicon when they started outsourcing overseas. Used to be all made in the good ole USA. They may have managed a hit with the MPX500. Even the lowly MPX100 is said to have good converters, but these units pass the dry signal as analog unless you select digital to use it as a converter.
So few people really understand how to transport the listener to another place these days. Everyone and their grandmothers can now setup home studios. However, people often don't understand the equipment, or acoustics, or music for that matter.
A lot of the factory programs in newer reverbs are overly bright just because they can be. That totally screws up the frequency cues that the brain picks up on to interpret the sound stage. You're not going to convince the listener that they're in a large hall if the reverb or echoes are as bright as or brighter than the initial sound. I've watched people misuse their reverbs to brighten up dull sound for years. It's a bass ackwards way of doing it.
In the old days you couldn't use plate or spring reverbs to brighten things up because they didn't brighten. Same with some early digital reverbs. Some describe the Lexicon PCM70 and LXP-1 as not bright enough. Could be they emulate a more natural sound.