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I have owned Lexicon over the years. Harman produces some nice gear. This appears to be a nice unit, short of no balanced connections, but being a receiver, not really necessary. It has Dirac Live, which is a plus. My guess is they are about to release something new, thus the reduction in price.
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Old thread - but I noticed the RV9 still on sale in various places - sometimes at deep discounts (like the one mentioned in the OP)...
It is a "generic" Harman receiver - albeit a highish end one.
It does not have the customisability with Logic7 that previous generations had (MC1, MC12)
Seems to me that Lexicon today is an Orphan child - the people who developed all the Lexicon stuff have left... the Harman dev teams focus on JBL Synthesis as their flagship.... and Arcam as the next step down.... with Mark Levinson for "audiophile" gear (that is, as opposed to Videophile where it is covered by JBL Synthesis).
Is it a good receiver... at the right price, I would have jumped at it... but as priced, even discounted now, I feel there are better options in the Market.
Yes I would be willing to pay a few addition $100 for Logic7 or Logic16 upmixing - it was the best upmixer for music - and did an excellent job with movies as well... but it has a lot of competitors today, and the version of it deployed in the last couple of generations of Harman/Lexicon AVR's was knobbled/limited (full version apparently in the JBL's).
I am certain it will be a good sounding AVR - but Denon/Marantz/Onkyo/Anthem/NAD/Yamaha have been competing vigorously - and have upped their features repeatedly - several times since the RV9 was released.
I admit that at $3600 - it is in the competitive price bracket for quality AVR's - but it is a 2017 AVR at a 2022 competitive price.
Also updates and fixes to the RV9 firmware have been very slow... the feel is that it has been "forgotten" by the Harman team.
It is a "generic" Harman receiver - albeit a highish end one.
It does not have the customisability with Logic7 that previous generations had (MC1, MC12)
Seems to me that Lexicon today is an Orphan child - the people who developed all the Lexicon stuff have left... the Harman dev teams focus on JBL Synthesis as their flagship.... and Arcam as the next step down.... with Mark Levinson for "audiophile" gear (that is, as opposed to Videophile where it is covered by JBL Synthesis).
Is it a good receiver... at the right price, I would have jumped at it... but as priced, even discounted now, I feel there are better options in the Market.
Yes I would be willing to pay a few addition $100 for Logic7 or Logic16 upmixing - it was the best upmixer for music - and did an excellent job with movies as well... but it has a lot of competitors today, and the version of it deployed in the last couple of generations of Harman/Lexicon AVR's was knobbled/limited (full version apparently in the JBL's).
I am certain it will be a good sounding AVR - but Denon/Marantz/Onkyo/Anthem/NAD/Yamaha have been competing vigorously - and have upped their features repeatedly - several times since the RV9 was released.
I admit that at $3600 - it is in the competitive price bracket for quality AVR's - but it is a 2017 AVR at a 2022 competitive price.
Also updates and fixes to the RV9 firmware have been very slow... the feel is that it has been "forgotten" by the Harman team.
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