SMSL SAP-10 Balanced Amp

This comment is hilarious these days! [1/2024]

Typically speaking, a symmetrical board design is a bad sign, as it is rarely the optimal component layout in terms of signal paths and generation of unintended RF/EMI loops within the amp design itself. I am not an EE, but this is what I have gathered from reading and watching many different in depth board teardowns. http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/o2-design-process.html under 2-29 PC BOARD ROUTING. "Forget Aesthetics – It’s apparently hard for some to resist but the optimal layout rarely has everything arranged in neat tidy rows and columns like a spreadsheet. Electrons have no concept of aesthetics but they don’t generally like going further than they need to because someone thought an IC or resistor looked better over there. See the next item." The entire section is relevant here, but that in particular addresses the layout issue I'm referring to.

It certainly looks really nice.