Monolith by Desktop Balanced Headphone Amplifier and ESS SABRE DAC with THX AAA Technology, Dirac Virtuo, MQA
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Product Code
143862
Last checked
Jul 4, 2025
Monolith™ by Monoprice™
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
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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"
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