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When looking close at the CS4231A chip oriented in the position so you can read the text on the chip itself, there are two pins on the right side that have a solder bridge between them a little over half way up from the bottom near you. Supposed to be like that? I didn't put it there.

I was going to start troubleshooting with taking this guy off and see if anything improves. If I remove the chip, should I post the output again? Actually, I'll remove the bridge first and see if that does anything and if not I'll remove the entire thing.