bobbooo
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I think you are making mountains out of molehills here. Why don't you try this. Make a track of some of your music. You can do this with free sound editor software. Or if you have analog RCA plugs somewhere in the circuit path, just unplug one channel.
Play only one channel and do not play the other channel. Put only the silent channel of the headphone to your ear. See if you can hear anything. You'll be listening directly to crosstalk. If you can barely hear anything at all it simply isn't a problem. Obviously if you hear nothing it is not a problem.
Isn't the point of this sound science section (and all science) to hypothesise there's a mountain, and then either prove, using theoretical calculations or practical experimentation (or preferably both), that it is a mountain, or disprove it's a mountain and prove it is in fact a molehill? I have actually already done a little experiment similar to what you've suggested, and I could hear crosstalk from the 'silent' channel, even on my DAP's lowest volume setting, so I think it is audible in real-world listening. Of course this isn't a great test as some of what I heard could have been natural acoustic crosstalk (as opposed to the electrical crosstalk I'm testing for) through airborne sound leakage from the non-silent driver, but I tried to eliminate this by err...wrapping it in a duvet. It’s also not clear how this test translates to the audibility of crosstalk when actually listening to stereo music through both channels. An ABX test would probably be needed for that, but as I don’t have a ‘reference’ audio chain with lower crosstalk, I can’t do this.