6moons review (April 2014):
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/dac/1.htmlOur initial comments....
1. PRICE: Srajan's only significant complaint was regarding the price of the Maraschino, which was lowered by nearly 30% to $2900/pr after the article was written. How did we manage this price reduction? Well, we spent more than a year negotiating with suppliers to lower cost. We also developed smarter packaging and a streamlined assembly process. Our customers benefit from trim margins compared to large manufacturers as well.
2. SWITCH: Regarding the Maraschino's auto-sleep function, Srajan writes, "Where this scheme goes south is with headfi/preamps like Wow Audio Lab's L1 below or Questsound's CMA800R. Neither mutes its main outputs when a headphone is inserted". Our new 60V power supply has a power switch, so if you have one of these preamps, just switch off the supply when listening through headphones.
3. FLOW: The review article was appended a few times.
Corrections to earlier statements appear close to the end.
4. POWER: The 48V supplies that were used for the review were the only ones available at the time. They perform very well and include EMI filtering for low radiated and conducted noise. Our
new 60V 1kW supply can easily deliver 400Wpc into 4 ohms in stereo, and you can experience peaks of 800W into 2 ohms with one supply per channel.
