Yes. Stay away from them.

When I first joined BSR and was the Eastern Regional Sales Manager for the BSR, ADC and dbx brands, there was discussion about making less expensive dbx sound processors to sell to the "big box" retailers, with each unit priced at $99.95. None were designed to come close to the performance of their far costlier brandmates sold at "selected" retailers, and none would require the extensive amount of sales training for those retailers, as well as the time it took to explain to consumers what it was that the products did.

Unfortunately, none of those products ever came to fruition. When dbx just about collapsed under the presidency of A.J. Menozzi, and prior to the sale of the company to Carillon Technology Inc. (TCI), the BSR product procurer had the products you're inquiring about made, but all as video, and not audio accessories, hence the term "Video sound processor." They flopped horribly, and were truly awful products as well. dbx engineers had nothing to do with their design - they were simply cheap Asian knockoffs, sold under the dbx brand name.

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