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Headphone problems

I recently restored my iPod but noticed afterwards a drop in the sound level, such that quiet passages of music were barely audible even if I turned up the volume full and there was no ambient noise. This just wasn't right.

Now, I wondered if this might have been related to the restoration. I was worried either that the iPod was developing a fault or that the firmware might have been monkeyed around with by Apple at the insistence of the nanny state.

Anyway, the third possibility occurred to me: that it was the headphones. I disliked the ones I was using anyway - they were the Apple "in-ear" phones, which I find to be poorly fitting, uncomfortable, and likely to fall out. (I got them after the original phones got trodden on and broken.) So I thought it worth replacing them.

To cut a long story short, with a new pair of headphones - just the standard Apple ones - everything is OK again. I can now turn the volume back down to a half to three-quarters of full volume for normal listening and turn it up if there's a particularly quiet passage.

I suspect that the old headphones had gradually been getting worse over time - I've certainly encountered problems hearing some things well on them for some time - and a greater deterioration was merely coincidental with the iPod restoration.

Anyway, this is perhaps worth posting. If anyone notices volume problems with a DAP, it obviously can be down to the headphones, and that's worth checking.