Lexicon MC-10 Home Theater Processor

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The MC10 is designed to be part of a serious home theater system and there are some great reasons for heading down this road of separate components for your home theater. Most home theater systems will consist of an all in one home theater receiver containing all of the amplifiers, the video and audio switching, and all of the signal processing. The MC10 does not include amplifiers. Its sole purpose is to process the audio and video signals.

Going with a processor like the MC10 allows you the freedom to pick out the best possible amps to drive your speakers. It also makes your complete system easier to change. With tech advancing every 5-7 years, you can just upgrade the processor piece and keep your great amps.

The build quality on the Lexicon is just great. The rear panel is very well laid out with its 7 HDMI inputs and a full set of both balanced and RCA outputs. Its large volume knob in the center of the half-inch thick hairline brushed anodized aluminum fascia faceplate looks very cool to us audio geeks too!

You’ll never have a shortage of input options with the MC10. 7 HDMI inputs, 6 analog inputs, 4 Coax digital, 2 Toslink digital, USB for computer audio, and even an FM tuner! The front panel adds a headphone jack and a convenient mini plug audio input. For outputs you’ve got 11 channels plus two subwoofer outputs. There are 12 balanced outputs and 13 RCA outputs as you’ll need to use the RCA out for the second sub. You even get a zone 2 output and 3 HDMI outs. One goes to Zone 2 while the others track the main zone with audio return channel on one of them. This also means you could feed two video sources, think a wall mount 65” TV for the news and a drop down 133” screen with projector for the real deal. Add in Spotify and Internet radio and you have one great input set.

In terms of input flexibility, the Lexicon has several features we especially like. First, it does not limit you to the number of inputs you can assign an HDMI feed to. For example, you can watch sports while listening to music. Each input also has the ability to have a different set of tone controls and EQ applied to it for fine tuning. Finally, you have input offset, which lets you balance out the sound level when switching between inputs.

As you might have guessed with all the channels available, the MC10 does both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. It also handles the latest in HDR HDMI and is even Dolby Vision compatible.

A truly great home theater is all about making the sound and picture as good as it can be. The MC10 has just totally blown us away on how good it sounds compared to anything else even remotely close to its price.

First, it has some of the best DAC’s (digital to analog converter) you can buy as it uses 24bit /192k Cirrus CS42528 DACs. As a general rule, the better the DAC and its supporting circuitry, the better the sound.

Another great technology for music lovers is Lexicon’s Logic7 Immersion upmixer. This tech takes a two-channel music recording and converts it into multichannel using Lexicon’s decades of recording studio expertise. The result is pretty amazing, especially on a live performance.

The part of the MC10 that we really love is its Dirac Live room correction system. If you know much about acoustics, you are fully aware of how the room interacts with your speakers to drastically change their sound. The Dirac Live room correction system is by far and away the most complex and creative process ever invented to attack room issues as it not only looks at frequency response, but also impulse response. We can fully attest that using Dirac will transform the sound of your room.

The Dirac Live setup is fairly straightforward, however there are a few tricks and tips we have learned to make it sound even better, which we are happy to share after your purchase.

Now, being the impatient music and film lovers that we are, we could not wait to hear the MC10 so we tried it in the beginning without Dirac. All we did was set distances and levels. We were not prepared for the difference in sound!

And then we set up Dirac. The room transformed! Everything across the board was cleaner and clearer. Bass lines and explosive effects became much better defined. The all-important dialog track was the clearest we had ever experienced.

At its price point of $6,000 the MC10 exceeds the sound quality of some surround sound processors priced 2 times that amount, making it a superior choice for the serious home theater enthusiast. The inclusion of Lexicon’s Logic7 Immersion upmixer, Dirac Live room correction, and their great audio DAC's create an unbelievable sound experience like no other. If you’re in the market for a new surround sound processor, we feel confident that you will fall in love with the MC10 just like we did.

MUSIC: Ryan Little - http://bit.ly/2PxNPMI