Monolith Portable Headphone Amplifier and DAC – Black With THX AAA Technology, Analog Input, Slim Design, Dirac Sensaround

The Monolith THX Portable Headphone Amplifier and DAC features cutting edge technology to bring out the best in your headphones, playback device, and music library. Featuring a THX AAA 788 amplifier module for superior amplification and extended battery life, an AKM 4493 DAC for an exceptionally musical experience, and Dirac Sensaround II decoding for an out-of-your-head, larger than life soundstage, the Monolith portable amplifier is engineered for the finest in music reproduction from your phone or other portable playback device.

Product Highlights

• The World’s Lowest Distortion Amplfiier: The THX Achromatic Audio Amplifier (THX AIAA) 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.
• AKM 4493 DAC Detailed Sound: AKM’s new flagship 32-bit stereo premium DAC. It supports PCM inputs up to 768kHz and a Direct Stream Digital (DSD) input of 2.8/5.6/112 (maximum) MHz, the industry’s highest level. An internal circuit employs a newly developed 32-bit digital filter for the ultimate in sound quality and musicality.
• DIRAC SENSAROUND Expand your headspace. Music is usually mixed with loudspeakers in mind, not headphones. . No fuzzy sound, fake spatial effects, or poorly placed sound objects. Just transparent and natural sound as in a well-designed cinema, studio, or any other professionally engineered space.
• VERSATILE INPUTS  This amplifier features a USB and a 3.5mm optical input, as well as an analog 3.5mm stereo input for devices without digital outputs. TAILOR YOUR SOUND: PEQ and Shelf EQU – Use the powerful digital tools to tailor the sound to your personal preference.
• DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL: Use the DRC functionality to set the shelving filters. The DRC starts with low-pass and high-pass filters to split the low and high frequencies (24dB/oct @ 140Hz), followed by two independent stereo compressors and a mixer to combine the low and high bands.