You are right about its crosstalk but not about the noise floor, setting the A30Pro via RCA it can reach 1dB
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) lower than A50s.Theorically they should sound the same for humans but sometimes external factors may change the final result. So something in (or out of) the chain may be influencing somehow or it is just placebo.
Even the most technological equipment may suffer from not so obvious issues. There was a friend of mine who was "suffering" with interference in his audio rig from RF towers, he asked for help and almost every body susgested him to move to a full balanced rig but even after this investment the problem had not been solved. All the equipments he had bought although balanced weren't grounded (all of them were two pins termination - eg.: the first version of M500) and he took a time to figure it out while blaming the equipments...