I honestly can’t tell the difference balanced or unbalanced.

This is what I bought: NEOMUSICIA Black Replacement... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J9V298Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

When I direct connect to my IPhone it gets sufficiently loud enough using dongle but with the Qudelix unless I max out the volume on my iPhone the sound level is less than desirable. Could it be because I’m using the Sound Check setting on IPhone?

New to forum and recent purchaser of X3’s here. Has anybody found a shorter balanced cable for the X3’s? I am using the Qudelix-5k along with the 2.5mm balanced cable for X3’s but wish I had a shorter cable. (I bought the shorter unbalanced cable off of Amazon but doesn’t have enough oomph with...