I have soldered SMD several times.  But I have a board now where the pads are outside the width of the IC chip,  has anyone ever encountered this?  Is it a bad board or a new method I haven't encountered any suggestions?

  I have owned an Audio-gd PCM1704 DAC for a few years now and have put some of the best DAC's I could get my hands on against it.  The Audio-gd always wins.  I tried his ref1 and ref 7.1 but always felt something missing compared to the older models.  I believe the issue to be jitter from...