equipment manufacturer . for other companies see lexicon disambiguation . lexicon type public industry audio electronics founded 1971 headquarters woodbury orange county new york key people francis f. lee chuck bagnaschi dr. david griesinger products professional audio production equipment home theater equipment consumer audio website http www.lexicon.com lexicon is an american company that engineers manufactures and markets audio equipment as a brand of harman international industries hii with offices in salt lake city . originally founded in 1971 and headquartered in waltham mass . the company was acquired by hii in 1993 . 1 lexicon traces its history to the 1969 founding of american data sciences by mit professor dr. francis f. lee and engineer chuck bagnaschi developers of digital audio devices for medical heart monitoring . 2 the company is widely known as the oem developer of the multi speaker audio system for the rolls royce phantom 3 as well as the hyundai genesis hyundai equus and kia k900 . contents 1 professional audio equipment 1.1 digital delay systems 1.2 reverb and effects 1.3 hd recording 1.4 electroacoustic enhancement 2 home theater equipment 3 lexicon bd 30 thx certification controversy 4 references 5 external links professional audio equipment edit digital delay systems edit lexicon is sometimes credited as the inventor of commercial digital delay products . the first product to market was the popular delta t 101 delay in 1971 followed by the delta t 102 in 1972 . reverb and effects edit lexicon is considered the godfather of digital reverb 4 as one of the early players on the reverb reverberation market . the company was among the first to produce commercially available digital reverb equipment beginning in 1978 5 with the model 224 . in 1986 lexicon released the 480l costing more than some cars a successor of the 224xl . the pcm series was introduced as a smaller more economical option particularly in live situations where the 480l was too cumbersome for a rack rider . first in the series was the pcm 60 1984 followed a few years later by the lexicon pcm 70 the latter adding multi effects and a digital screen interface . david gilmour from pink floyd used a lexicon pcm 70 to store the circular delay sounds in songs such as shine on you crazy diamond and time in the 1994 the division bell tour . 6 in the 1990s lexicon continued the pcm series with two new units the pcm 80 multi effects unit and pcm 90 digital reverb . in 1997 . they released model 300 as another iconic multi effect unit . lexicon continued the pcm series in the 2000s with new mid level units including the pcm 96 and pcm 96 surround standalone reverb units that easily integrate into daws . 7 also from the 1990s comes the consumer level lxp series including the lxp 1 lxp 5 lxp 15 and the lxp 15ii and later the affordable mpx1 . a new low priced reverb series the mx series was introduced in the 2000s with the lexicon mx200 as the entrance model . hd recording edit lexicon was a pioneer in the hard disk recording market introducing the opus system in 1988 . this system feature 8 channels of disk i o along with an integrated 12 channel digital mixer . in the following years opus was upgraded with eq and console automation . in the mid 1990s lexicon studio and core2 audio interfaces were introduced . they were notable in that they could be expanded with a lexicon reverb daughterboard that was then accessible to the recording software . electroacoustic enhancement edit in 1988 lexicon developed lares an electronic processing system intended to give performance spaces a tailored acoustic experience . lares uses microphones to pick up sound central processing units to apply time variant anti feedback delay and reverberation algorithms and banks of loudspeakers to bring the enhanced audio signal back into the performance space . lares associates split away from lexicon in 1995 . lexicon continues to benefit from its initial lares research and development with the company offering a scaled down and simplified microprocessor controller the mc 12 8 intended for auditory enhancement within home and professional listening spaces . the system is called lexicon live . 9 home theater equipment edit lexicon s first foray into home theater equipment was with its surround processor the cp 1 . later a cp 2 was released followed by the cp 3 and the cp 3 . the cp 3 cp 3 were the first of its home theater products to be thx certified . with the arrival of dolby digital the cp line had to be discontinued . it was replaced with the dc line namely the dc 1 1996 and the dc 2 . it was at this point that the company introduced its revolutionary surround processing algorithm logic 7 . logic 7 was notable for generating a convincing soundfield from seven loudspeakers when presented with either a stereo or 5.1 input . after a while lexicon added the mc 1 to its lineup of the dc 1 and dc 2 and the mc 1 became its new flagship . a few years later lexicon introduced the mc 12 and the mc 12b . the mc 12b was in all respects identical to the mc 12 except that it had balanced outputs in addition to the standard unbalanced ones . shortly after this lexicon filled in the lower end of its product line by providing an mc 8 and an mc 4 . they also produced a receiver the rv 8 . as of this writing 8 2016 its current flagship is the mc 14 . conspicuously absent from this model is the room correction offered by its recent predecessors such as the mc 12 . 10 in addition to surround processors lexicon also sells the lx and cx multi channel home theater amplifiers and the rt 20 dvd player . its discontinued nt line of amplifiers were rebadged bryston amplifiers . lexicon bd 30 thx certification controversy edit in 2010 an audioholics.com review revealed that the chassis and internal components of lexicon s bd 30 blu ray player retail price 3500 was identical to that of the oppo bdp 83 retail price 500 ; audiovisual testing indicated no changes were made in performance either . 11 12 furthermore it appears that this player was given thx certification the first blu ray player with this distinction despite failing fundamental thx tests . currently evidence of its certification has largely disappeared from the thx website after this was revealed . 13 references edit harman moves on digital acquires lexicon . harman international industries 4 16 93 bernie girod . harman international industries inc. today announced completion of the acquisition of lexicon inc. based in waltham mass . lexicon is recognized worldwide as the premier designer and manufacturer of digital audio signal processing equipment and disk based audio production systems for the professional audio and high end consumer electronics industries . steven schoenherr . recording technology history . the digital revolution archived october 7 2008 at the wayback machine . the vocabulary of sonic excellence . roy nakano lacar.com . magnus nick march 1995 . lexicon reflex dynamic midi effects processor . sound on sound . retrieved 10 february 2013 . 1978 lexicon 224 digital reverb tolinski brad september 1994 . welcome to the machines . guitar world . retrieved 2011 07 29 . robjohns hugh november 2008 . lexicon pcm96 reverb processor . sound on sound . retrieved 10 february 2013 . lexicon mc 12 music and cinema processor lexicon live lexicon intelligent variable environment products lexicon . lexicon.com . retrieved 2016 08 27 . lexicon bd 30 blu ray player oppo bdp 83 clone review . consumerist.com lexicon puts 500 blu ray player in new case charges 3000 markup ... and gets caught . thx lexicon official response regarding bd player certification . external links edit lexicon website lexicon professional audio site v t e harman international industries subsidiaries akg acoustics c1000 amx crown international dbx professional products digitech digitech whammy harman kardon infinity systems jbl jbl paragon lexicon mark levinson audio 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