Sounds good.

They are both Xduoo XD-05 amps. The one with the channel imbalance is the silver and black model, while the one without is all black (if that's relevant, as the QC could be different, despite the only difference being color.) And there is no (audible) noise at that position, just a channel...

What makes you figure that, if I may ask?

I have two identical amps, but one of them has a channel imbalance when I turn the volume knob to approximately 10 o'clock, but disappears at any other volume setting; however, this problem didn't exist when I first bought it; what is the most likely cause of this issue?

Sounds good.

I would, but I'm still new to rewiring and circuits, so I don't want to ruin them.

What do you mean?

I'm sorry to ruin your fun, but: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/op-amps-myths-facts.html

I figured it would be snake oil, but that's way worse than I expected, holy...

Thank you for the article, as well. I think I'll stick with MM cartridges, thanks to the explanation of pros and cons.

My turntable has a built-in preamp, but not one that's compatible with MC cartridges.

I can't provide much feedback other than it seems like a virtual surround program; I use Android, not iOS.

I've been trying to decide between getting a phono preamp (so I can use MC cartridges with my turn table) and just getting a good MM cartridge. Are MC cartridges really that much better than a similarly priced MM cartridge to justify the cost of getting a phono preamp to be able to use them...

Would it be possible to make a solid state version?

After learning about speaker orders, in combination with being exposed to some recent threads, I came up with a new idea for developing a compensation curve for circumaural headphones: I call it the "Open Air Response" (OA). In a flat open field, with little to no background noise, (like the...

I'll need to think about it, but the designs of the HD558/598, Verum One, and anything from HIFIMAN, are inspirations for me. The HD558/598 gave me the idea for angled cups and strategic driver placement, Verum for some aspects of my hypothetical headband (I'm optimizing his design), and HIFIMAN...

I know a rule of thumb that goes something like: "If a soundwave travels down a tube longer than its 1/4 wavelength, it gets amplified." Could you be thinking of that?

As someone who was trying to do something like this myself, I can very much get behind this idea.

This thread definitely reminds me of the Torvalds/Tannenbaum debate. If this is the first time that this has happened in this sub-forum, this is historic.

Interesting observation. You wouldn't think there'd be much of a difference between devices.

Not a big fan of Atmos "Music" mode?

Isn't 16 bit/48kHz beyond the capabilities of what AptX HD can losslessly reproduce, anyway?

I had no idea they were different. I looked on Hydrogen Audio after reading this, and it seems that LAME added VBR support to MP3?

You can set Opus' target bit rate all the way up to 512 kbps, but it can theoretically to all the way up to the bitrate of the original recording if needed, via VBR

See my reply to bigshot; It wins the bitrate wars, size wars, and it's open source