Kostas Metaxas The MASDAC, released in 1990 (30 years ago!) was a milestone, as it was the first commercial DAC to use a “low jitter Apogee Clock” (which at that time was only reserved for Pro devices) and is still considered by some to be one of the best DACs ever…
Metaxas stopped production of the MASDAC in the mid-1990s because the ULTRA -ANALOG DAC that was updated to V2, in Metaxas’ words: “sounded horrible”.