Little Labs

Monotor - Dual Output Professional Headphone Amp

SKU: # 495358   |   Model: # MONOTOR   |    Product Reviews1 Reviews  Write a Review

Monotor - Dual Output Professional Headphone Amp

Additional Photos:

Monotor - Dual Output Professional Headphone Amp
Your Price: $799.00 CDN
or from $84 CDN/mo

Buy Online

 Add to Cart

Buy In-Store

LIttle Labs Monotor is an audiophile headphone amp designed for the working audio engineer. The compact Monotor allows two people per Monotor (each headphone out is independently powered) to listen deep into a track at the highest resolution possible when paired with a quality set of headphones. For accurate, low fatigue, great sounding source analysis, get the Monotor!

Features include:
• Dual 1/4" AND 3.5mm separately amplified headphone jacks.
• Extensive mono monitoring capability: left plus right, left, right, and even left minus right, for phase check and digital compressed audio file artifact analysis.
• Minimal audiophile (almost completely passive) zen circuit path using a single state of the art active stage per headphone output (0.5Ω independently verified output impedance).
• Internal state of the art super low noise linear voltage regulation, providing audiophile full current/voltage (unlike USB powered headphone amps).
• Stereo mini aux input for talkback communication or easy portable player hookup.
• High gain, low noise, for very high spl monitoring, even with high impedance headphones.
• XLR/TRS combo jack inputs in parallel with TRS jacks for easy in-line monitoring hook up.
• Quality stepped volume attenuator with internal bypass for remote volume control capability.
• Rack-mountable: Up to 4 Little Labs devices fit in a 1u space.
• Made in the USA.

Q & A


There are currently no questions for this product.

Reviews


18.116.36.192
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; [email protected])
Little Labs Monotor 7 of 7 customers found this review helpful
Features  
Quality  
Value  
Overall  
Product Experience   I own it
Closest Store   Oshawa, Ontario
I'm surprised there's no reviews yet for the Little Labs Monotor. I've owned my Monotor for about 7 months (purchased Aug, 2019). I'm not a professional, only using for home listening pleasure. Before buying the Monotor, I was using the headphone out of my Bryston BP-25 DA preamp/dac. At that point I owned and used Grado SR60e and beyerdynamic DT1770 Pro headphones. I was very happy with what I was hearing from the Bryston. The main reason for deciding to go to a stand alone headphone amp was to be able to control the headphone volume separately from speaker volume. I ended up choosing the Little Labs Monotor. I have nothing but good to say about it. It was a nice step up in sound compared to the Bryston. Not huge but definitely noticeable. I would describe it as more solid sounding with much more power, with the Monotor having much more volume available to power these headphones. I ended up buying a pair of Sennheiser HD600 headphones based on reading the comments by Jonathan Little in the owners manual. Again very, very happy with the Monotor. It easily drove the 32, 250 and 300 ohm impedance headphones I now owned. The Monotor has been rock solid for the 7 months I've owned it. Very nice outboard power supply as opposed to usb power or walwart. It has the ability to easily bypass the builtin volume pot in situations where the source volume pot may be higher quality or more convenient. Nice if the source volume has remote control. It has extra functions to switch L/R channels to R/L via a front panel rotary knob. It can switch to mono L+R, L only, R only also L-R phase check function. I can well imagine these functions would be very useful for a professional user but in my case, my biggest use so far has been to zero in on right left channel imbalance and be able to get exact balance fed from my playback software (Roon). Nice features. I can't see how anyone would be disappointed with the Monotor based on sound quality alone, let alone build quality and added functionality that you wouldn't even think about until you actually had them to try. To top it off, I recently had to contact support with questions about using the L-R phase function. Within hours, I received a response from Jonathan Little himself. I had a couple back and forth emails for questions and he replied within hours each time, always very helpful and courteous. Very impressed with the level of customer service for a relatively low priced product (or any product for that matter). I could add more detail about my use experience but I'm sure this already sounds like a paid review. All I can say is I couldn't be happier with my Monotor and have no desire to upgrade. I can't imagine what the upgrade cost would be to improve on the Monotor. PS. I also submitted a review on Sweetwater.com even though I purchased from Long & McQuade. I did that because that was where I found the most helpful reviews when I was originally researching my purchase and I wanted to add mine to hopefully help someone else.
Posted by Bill Street on Mar 19, 2020
Was this review helpful? Vote helpful Vote not helpful flag this review

Performance Warranty Banner

Protect your investment with the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty

A warranty can be a very important factor when making a buying decision. Because repairs can be very expensive in terms of parts and labour costs, manufacturers usually only provide one year limited warranties that generally only cover items that malfunction due to a manufacturer’s defect. With an important purchase such as a musical
instrument or piece of studio gear, however, many people want to have the peace of mind in knowing that their investment will be protected should the product no longer be performing at 100%.

Because of this, Long & McQuade provides our customers with a FREE one-year Performance Warranty on most of our products. The Long & McQuade Performance Warranty supplements the manufacturer’s warranty to ensure that our customers receive complete “no hassle” warranty coverage within their first year.

How does the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty differ from most manufacturers' warranties?
  • Performance Guarantee: Normal wear and tear is covered, so your product will be performing as well as the day you purchased it for the entire duration of the coverage. Band and Orchestral Performance Warranty does not include replacing pads or cleaning for woodwind instruments, unless deemed necessary by our repair staff. Ultrasonic cleaning for brass instruments will be provided if deemed necessary by our repair staff, but is not routinely offered under the Performance Warranty.
  • Product Replacement: If your product cannot be fixed or costs too much to fix, we will replace it with the equivalent model for no additional charge. If this is not possible, a full refund will be provided.
  • No Lemon Policy: Your product will be replaced should the same problem occur multiple times.
  • Convenient: Easy drop off and pick up of the product at any Long & McQuade location.
  • Guitar Setup: Guitars purchased at Long & McQuade come with 1 free setup, to be redeemed within 1 year for new guitars and 90 days for used guitars.
  • Loaners Available: A loaner product may be given while the product is being repaired.
  • Power Surge Protection: Your product is covered even if damaged from a power surge.
  • Accessory Coverage: Any peripheral devices or accessories that come with your product (i.e. foot pedal, case) are also covered.
  • Commercial Use Coverage: Music and recording professionals who purchase gear for “heavy-use” commercial purposes will still be covered.
 

Long & McQuade reserves the right to restrict the purchase of additional years of Performance Warranty. Used products come with a 3-month Long & McQuade Performance Warranty. Some products (i.e. computers, software, cymbals and other items) are covered only by the manufacturer‘s warranty. Consumables (i.e. strings, reeds, drum sticks, batteries, tubes, cross faders) are excluded as they are designed to be replaced. Cosmetic Damage, Accidental Damage, or problems caused by Humidity or Temperature Issues are not covered. Speakers damaged by overpowering are generally not covered. Our coverage does not provide compensation for loss of use. As of June 2018 the Performance Warranty is no longer transferable. The warranty is only valid in Canada.

Purchasing additional years of coverage

Some manufacturers provide warranties for longer than 1 year; however, these are usually limited warranties that do not provide the same coverage as the Long & McQuade Performance Warranty. Customers interested in more complete and convenient (but not necessarily longer) coverage are still able to purchase additional years of the Performance Warranty.

If you are interested in receiving this coverage for longer than one year, you have the option of purchasing additional years of the Performance Warranty. The pricing is as follows:

  • NEW products: 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. 4% for each additional year.
  • USED products: 4% of the current new selling price to increase the warranty from 3 months to 1 year. 4% for each additional year.
  • GUITARS: 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. 4% for each additional year. $45 maximum. An additional free setup is not included with additional purchased years of Performance Warranty.
  • BAND and ORCHESTRAL instruments: 4% of the current new selling price to double the warranty from 1 year to 2 years. 4% for each additional year.

Great Additions