Balanced Desktop Headphone Amplifier

Desktop Headphone Amplifier with ESS and THX AAA DAC Technology, Dirac Spatial, MQA

The Monolith™ THX AAA™ Desktop Headphone Amplifier and DAC features cutting-edge technology that brings out the best in your headphones, playback device, and music library. This audiophile essential features dual THX AAA™ 788 amplifier modules for best-in-class amplification, an ESS SABRE® 9038Q2M DAC for an exceptionally musical experience, MQA compatibility, and Dirac Virtuo decoding for an out-of-your-head, larger-than-life soundstage.

The Monolith™ headphone amplifier is engineered for the finest in music reproduction. A host of inputs and outputs, including balanced, unbalanced, and digital, ensure that you have plenty of ways to connect your audio devices.

• THX AAA™ Technology
• ESS SABRE® ADC ES9820Q and ES9038Q2M DAC
• Dirac Virtuo spatial audio solution
• MQA Compatible
• Balanced Inputs
• Balanced Outputs

THX AAA™ AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY

The THX Achromatic Audio Amplifier™ (THX AAA) ensures the ultimate no-compromise headphone audio experience by delivering the world's highest fidelity audio with infinitesimally low levels of noise, distortion, and power consumption.

TRUE BALANCED OPERATION

When Using balanced inputs and the balanced headphone output, each THX AAA™ module operates in a bridged configuration to maximize output power for each channel.

ESS SABRE® ADC ES9820Q AND ES9038Q2M DAC

SABRE® Headphone DACs are recognized in the audiophile community as the gold standard for convenient, portable audio performance. They deliver unprecedented levels of performance from highly-integrated systems. The integration includes Audiophile-quality SABRE® DACs with high-power headphone amplifiers, this allows for small, low-power, and cost-effective systems that simplify design without sacrificing audio quality.

DIRAC VIRTUO

When you hit "play," you want to move into a new level of audio reality-a place where sound surrounds you, envelops you, and welcomes you into a new dimension. Virtuo can make that happen for you by enabling an immersive sound experience with an expanded natural soundscape that stretches beyond the physical confines of your sound system.

MQA COMPATIBLE

Based on pioneering research into human neuroscience, the award-winning British technology captures every element of a recording's resolution and timing. This level of detail recreates a natural sound. It enables the listener to position the instruments and performers to build a 3D sonic picture.

BALANCED & SINGLE-ENDED HEADPHONE INPUT

Compatible with all headphones and IEMs.