I also did this. Been my desktop amp/EQ combo for over a year now. Love it w/ the Loki.
Hi, so it's unfortunate, but I had to send 2 Loki's back. They each had left channel drop out about 10 seconds after turning on, and they also would drop out each channel intermittintly.
Schitt customer service was great and the build qualtiy was really nice. I am disapointed at the issues I had with both units.
It was definetly the Loki's issue.
1. I would switch the RCA output on my powered speakers and it always started on the "left" RCA output
2. I would run the same pink noise into both channels using a splitter.
3. I also would mono the output and use both inputs
Point is, the issue was with the Loki.
Like I said Schitt was a great company to deal with, very prompt and issue to communicate with. Even with this issue I will most likley buy stuff from them again.