My pair has no glued pads, no channel imbalance.I've tried to love these for so long but it is impossible. My setup is Chord Mojo and Herus+, Sennheiser HD 650 and 580 Jubilee, Audeze LCD-2 Rev. 2, Denon AH-D7000, and Beyer 770-32Ω Anniversary Edition. X2 are the less musical from all the above. Comparison with Audeze and Denon is not fair for X2 but even Beyers are more musical and pleasing. X2 are dry, harsh on the treble, voices are robotic, bass is ... (where is the bass really)? I have read ALL 853 pages in this topic, i respect the opinions here but what i read is like it is written for another headphone and not X2. I still have them, the only flaw is that both pads cannot stay on the headphone and they fall and every time i have to put them again... For a strange reason i don't want to sell them, they have something promising in the sound but one year and a half now i have tried very hard to find it but i couldn't.
Sorry for my bad English.
Sorry for my bad English.