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This will make a fantastic buy at $800, well $650 each for three of them. I now wish I had a second system.
Nice A few thoughts and questions:1) Where are you originally from? Long Island? Brooklyn? Love the accent. Reminds me of home.2) What tune were you playing at the end of the Kickstarter Ad?3) Do you feel that the rear of the amplifier is a bit crowded? I guess that is a compromise for a one enclosure (non monoblocked) integrated amplifier design.4) How is the volume control implemented in this design? What do you use?5) I am sure the specs are beyond reproach as your standard Maraschino has shown, so I am pretty sure the sonics will be quite good. Mind posting the differences (with your Audio Precision plots) of the stereo versus mono versions of the Maraschinos? Are they identical?Thank you and good luck to you. Should be another hot seller!Best,Anand.
A little confused here. This is "just" a new stereo amp?How is it different in specs/performance from the Regular/King Maraschino you already sell?
So where are we on the power output?
Anand,Thanks for your post. Here are some answers:1) Where are you originally from? Long Island? Brooklyn? Love the accent. Reminds me of home.>>>> That's Steve, our Sales VP. He does have a cool accent! I'll ask him more specifically where he's originally from, but definitely NY.Hi Anand, I am from Staten Island..2) What tune were you playing at the end of the Kickstarter Ad?>>>> This is a demo piece that our videographer found. I'll ask him for the name of the band/song. I like it too (:3) Do you feel that the rear of the amplifier is a bit crowded? I guess that is a compromise for a one enclosure (non monoblocked) integrated amplifier design.>>>> Yes, a bit crowded, but after trying various cables, everything hooks up quite easily, with plenty of room for your fingers to tighten the binding posts in case you want to use bare wire. We recommend banana plugs, though.4) How is the volume control implemented in this design? What do you use?>>>> We plan to use an ALPS two-channel panel mount control.5) I am sure the specs are beyond reproach as your standard Maraschino has shown, so I am pretty sure the sonics will be quite good. Mind posting the differences (with your Audio Precision plots) of the stereo versus mono versions of the Maraschinos? Are they identical?>>>> Well, you get less power with the MINT due to the simgle supply configuration. Of course, the monoblocks have perfect channel separation, but this is not possible with a single two-channel board that shares power supplies. Channel separation is TBD, but will likely be as impressive as our other specs. The In-Line Maraschino has an advantage in that it can be hung from the speaker using VERY short speaker wires. You can't do that with the MINT Maraschino, but in smaller systems (like computer audio), shorter speaker cables are prevalent. We will post plots once we have the new boards. This will take a few months. However, much of the layout is identical, and we expect performance to be almost as good as the monoblocks. Note that we are shooting for >120dB SNR. In order to accomplish this, we may need to tweak the feedback filters. If this has any negative effect on the sound, we will back off on the SNR. We typically tweak for sound after we achieve very high bench performance. This is why our amps simply sound better than almost anything out there regardless of price. We are willing to back off a bit on specs to achieve that Cherry sound....Thanks again, and hope I answered your questions adequately. Please back our project!
Power is stated on the kickstarter link.
Is it? I looked thrice and must have missed it?
The 48 volt looks cool, will this model be able to upgrade to the 60 volt without modification? Sorry in advance if I missed something in the posting. I honestly did read it a couple of times, but I didn't see this in it.
Anand,Thanks for your post. Here are some answers:1) Where are you originally from? Long Island? Brooklyn? Love the accent. Reminds me of home.>>>> That's Steve, our Sales VP. He does have a cool accent! I'll ask him more specifically where he's originally from, but definitely NY. Hi Anand, I am from Staten Island !
Hi,Since I'm new to the Kickstarter thingy, if I pledge for one of the Inline Maraschino monos, what happens if the Mint Maraschino Kickstarter project does not get funded?Thanks,Gene