I mean I’m not entirely sure where you are suggesting we differ since I mostly agree with you about the problem you are complaining about, but I am guessing you mean my nest feathering. Fair call. But the money is flowing somewhere - either by the reviewers or by the manufacturers and PR reps...

But If I ran head-fi, why would I bother? People come here and they like it. The people who don't like it leave. Suppressing hype would actually hurt people's extremely passionate engagement with the site, and putting front page negative reviews will hurt relationships with sponsors. You are...

I think the situation can continue, because it is profitable and people enjoy it. I don't think head-fi regards the 'situation' as a problem, and the audience that does regard the 'situation' as a problem have probably elected to get their information elsewhere. If you believe that there is an...

Also, I should add, some outlets like The Verge have a specific policy that review units are NOT to be used for personal use. This kind of thing makes sense to me for a smartphone, but seems absurd to me for audio products. I don't expect any people to have the mental ability to compartmentalise...

I don't necessarily think companies want to make better products. Companies want to sell more products so that people can go home and feed their families. Making better products is one way of doing this, but getting a lot of people talking about your product and buying it is obviously another...

Hey Brooko, some good thoughts here. Regardless of how we may think differently about crowdfunding, I agree with you that there is an increasing issue with the sheer volume of information and reviews. Unfortunately, after a long time I have come to think that there really is little possible...

Has anyone else tried talking to Apple Support and seeing if they have a specific response to this problem yet? I think my support case must have been closed because I returned the phone.

  Those measurements look great. If there was any extraneous noise on the output you would expect it to turn up on the graphs right? Wish I understood what was going on. *sigh*     I got the rating from...

I'm sure you know this, but given Gizmodo's usual way of operating, if you do pass something on to them, try to give them a clear perspective of the scope of the problem and the mix of findings contained even in this thread. Besides my videos and this thread, these other URLs might be useful as...

  As far as I know this forum is basically the only place where people are actively talking and swapping notes about this issue. You would expect this kind of discussion about an issue that only really affects users with some fancier IEMs (so far we have not been able to nominate a single pair...

  I think it's important to give perspective as well. As I've said from the beginning, most people in most situations with most earphones won't hear the noise. But it's also not a great idea to generalise from your own experiments to say that the noise is not a problem as long as you don't...

  Not quite. As I've said, with the right IEM it's possible to hear background processes from the phone even without touching it or doing anything while listening. 

Another thing to consider is that in order to accomodate the new force touch sensor / sturdier aluminium build, they might have had to pack stuff closer together on the PCB. The battery is smaller as well after all. Something's gotta give, maybe in this case EMI rejection.   Then again, it's...

  That's interesting. When I tested this, I could completely mute the output and still get various noises.

  As far as my experience goes, anything that makes the phone think about anything will cause some kind of burst of noise on the headphone jack. It seems that in particular the app switcher and the system settings tray in particular makes very distinct noises, but any background activity causes...