iPod Video 5G - Has your right earphone died?

Vegetarian · 24 Jan 2006 at 02:35

Seems like a lot of people with 5th gen iPods are having probs with their right earphones. Either the start to crackle or die compleatly - this seems just as common with stock buds as it is with expensive 3rd party earphones.

Anyone here had this problem?

This seems to be a hardware problem rather than headphone problem as the G5 is blowing right channel of anymake of headphone!

jhmaeng · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:48

Yup, I'm starting to hear crackles in my right channel. Mostly on bass-heavy music but it is definitely noticeable.

The earphones are Bang & Olufsen A8 which normally performs flawlessly. At least if it does break, they swap out without any fuss (2 year warranty), but it would still be a hassle nevertheless.

Will be monitoring both Head-Fi and iLounge threads closely but Head-fi forums is forever down

A2Z · 24 Jan 2006 at 14:18

Yep happened with my new 5G, as well as my old 3G.

Tbh they are so poor compared to other earphones you really should buy a decent set if you want to hear good music.

Got some E3C's here and lovin it.

Vegetarian · 24 Jan 2006 at 14:55

A2Z said:
Yep happened with my new 5G, as well as my old 3G.

Tbh they are so poor compared to other earphones you really should buy a decent set if you want to hear good music.

Got some E3C's here and lovin it.

Maybe I didnt stess enough in my thread its nothing to do with the apple headphone quality - but the iPod G5 units blowing right channel of ANY headphone!

BoomAM · 24 Jan 2006 at 19:38

Ive never heard of this problem.
Any resources on this problem around?

A2Z · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:07

Vegetarian said:
Maybe I didnt stess enough in my thread its nothing to do with the apple headphone quality - but the iPod G5 units blowing right channel of ANY headphone!

what are you on about :confused:

jhmaeng · 25 Jan 2006 at 01:55

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158999
and
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?threadid=144425

BoomAM · 31 Jan 2006 at 14:46

So is this a common problem or not? Or just a small minority?
Im buying a 5g iPod tomorrow so i could do with knowing one way or the other.

asim · 31 Jan 2006 at 15:33

I've been using my shure e2c's with the ipod 5g video 60b with no problems whatsoever. I think time will tell as to how many people are suffering from this problem.

james.miller · 31 Jan 2006 at 15:36

A2Z said:
what are you on about

its not the earphones, its the right channel of the amp inside the ipod that is damaging whatever headphones you are using. By the looks of it, its down to a poorly set up DC offset on the right channel.

stu.artd · 31 Jan 2006 at 16:28

No playback/audio problem with mine so far.

BoomAM · 31 Jan 2006 at 16:40

Reading around on iLounge points it to being a widespread problem.
Im seriously re-considering buying an iPod now.

FrankJH · 31 Jan 2006 at 17:03

I had noticed this, but I wasnt too sure about the cd in the first place wil keep an ear out on my 30G video

rotters · 31 Jan 2006 at 18:03

not only the video ipods has happened to 3 pair on phones on my nano! cant complain as i got it on ebay from america.

rotters

BoomAM · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:33

Do any of you lot think its worth risking buying an iPod tomorrow then?

Rednut05 · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:36

Yeah, just get new headphones!

I've never used my apple headphones, think they are still in the box...in the loft. But to agree with you all, my Mother has an iPod Shuffle and she complained maybe 3 days ago now that her right ear phone had been playing up.

Saying that I use mine in the car via an iTrip and never really use the headphone port. So can't say mine has gone wrong yet.

BoomAM · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:47

Rednut05 said:
Yeah, just get new headphones!

I dont plan on ever using the Apple headphones, i plan on using my trusty MX500s, but if they're gonna get blown out, then im not to keen. :confused:

stu.artd · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:14

I wouldn't say it's a reason not to buy one unless it really concerns you. If it comes to it then Apple will fix/replace it anyway. I hadn't heard about this before I got mine, but I've had no problems relating to this.

BoomAM · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:32

stu.artd said:
I wouldn't say it's a reason not to buy one unless it really concerns you.

Well it does. Im not keen on having my headphones blown up.

If it comes to it then Apple will fix/replace it anyway. I hadn't heard about this before I got mine, but I've had no problems relating to this.

According to iLounge forums, Apple will only replace Apple Headphones, and not 3rd party ones.

stu.artd · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:37

If it concerns you that much don't buy one, pretty straightforward

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