Look on the Monoprice product/discussion/qa page, believe there's a link also earlier in this thread.

Yup, set to 0dB gain. It is possible to rewire the rear XLR3 inputs as outputs if so inclined.

Absolutley it is and why I posited as a question so to glean if it might relate to the stereotype. ; ) Likely just impedance matching diffs in the gain stage tweaking ~6kish.

Have an ESS DAC previously?

All that matters is that YOU like the sound and can afford it. To me, I'm giddy with the $400 sale 788 I snagged that can stand in for gear 10x its price.

concur

No argument to your preferences of sound, some prefer tubes lol @Yggdrasil 2 I haven't heard it but on the bench a $200 Topping blows it away. As in TOTALLY Yggdrasil suffers from everything to power supply noise to 300Hz rolloffs on balanced to poor linearity and terrible S/N. Love the...

And another $200+ easy to match the dual AK4473 DACs in the Monolith, depending on what one already has but potentially $150 cheaper. Toss in the awesome PEQ and even Dirac the MP is potentially a much better value.

Yup thing is really ~end game. First one so epic it took over driving the living room hi-fi. So another again for the desk, one for work, another the nightstand. Oh frick I'm gonna be broke since this damn thing is oboleting everything else! I did come up with the perfect review of it's sound...

1. True but these are opamps not power amps for speakers. Regardless you could flip the notion and decrease the gain to further suppress your noise floor. Up the gain of your DAC to near line level. Calibrate your amp volumes once 2 Balanced is of biggest benefit on long cable runs and in...

See here for how balanced cabling works: https://www.boxcast.com/blog/balanced-vs.-unbalanced-audio-whats-the-difference 1. This maximizes gain of your noise floor and minimize your S/N but might make the amp more linear in its response depending on chips and architecture, etc. Though this is...

Why bother with this setup? Just changing the volume requires calibration and you're driving dual mono single ended not balanced power to the cans. Super power hungry? You'll just want one of those for the Sendy's.

Regarding new company aspect, SendyAudio is a new name for a company that's previously been a Tier‐1 OEM some 15 years. They're good at making stuff. Two+ years R&D into these cans and they're launching their brand around them. Like the cans or not, a new Legend is born. Industry take note...

My exhaustive review: Righteous sound and build for the money. Specifics per your own discretion. SQ ~95% running straight from my Note9 SE as from Monolith THX DAC HPA balanced so quite good even on a phone but like anything best with an amp.

Per the product FAQ section: Output impedance of AAA-788 is very low! It's less than 0.05 Ohms at 1 kHz.