Lexicon is well-known for their reverb and echo equipment in the late 70's and early 80's. They are really well-known and respected in the studio world, but make no equipment for the home audio industry, until 1986 came around.
Lexicon’s Dolby Pro-Logic surround design and effects processors, came from tests on real-room environments and they designed the effects based on their findings, and with the 5.1 & 7.1 surrounds on the CP-1 units, it also has a very accurate Auto-Azimuth Correction circuit that corrects time-delay errors.
The CP-1 is still a usable unit in this dayand age. There is an option on the Lexicon that allows you to put it into two channel mode, called PANORAMA, and with only two speakers eliminate"stereo crosstalk to adjust the negative input signal that is employed to eliminate crosstalk, so that the soundstage doesn't sound like it is coming from one side or another. It has a calibration option, and a SPEAKER ANGLE setting that allows the unit to compensate for close speaker placement, or wide speaker placement.
Here is a direct quote from the owner’s manual:
"Whena listener is in the correct spot, the PANORAMA mode provides an almost idealre-creation of the original recording space. It works by using digital processing to cancel the crosstalk between the listener's ears, effectively spreading the sound from the two front loudspeakers in a wide arc in front ofthe listener. With optional addition of rear speakers, PANORAMA can be almost spooky in its realism."
The design of this unit not only enables you to use it in a processor loop, but also allows you to use it as a unitgo-between for your amp and pre-amp-essentially turning the Lexicon into a Preamp, and it has the capability to control all of the volumes for each power amplifier.
People are starting to realize what this unit is capable of.
The unit originally sold for around $1500 and had a reputation for obvious quality, sonic cleanliness, and for being state-of-the-art Dolby Pro-Logic decoder for home theater. The basic mode I use(with 2 speakers in their normal positions) is "Panorama," a general purpose crosstalk-cancellation affair. The extremely thorough, clear owner's manual says this effect can be uncanny on certain recorded material containing ample spatial information. It certainly is! The effect is very hard to describein words but, on recordings for which it works well, it seems to communicate more information from the recording, increases the image size and sharpens definition. The image floats well beyond and away from the speakers. It can sound very lovely sometimes and always sounds decent. When you mute the effect,the sound field snaps back to ordinary 2-channel. And it sounds dead andclosed-in compared to the enhanced stuff. The Lexicon is capable of driving 8speakers plus 2 discrete subwoofers. Note that this unit is not really usefulfor home theater since it accepts only 2-channel analog inputs.
Notes: missing side panel
Condition
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Electronics & Computers, Stereo and Audio Equipment
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