skamp
Aka: HeadFiend, BatFi
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My phone right now is the Galaxy S - you mean to say that my phone was the crazy one all this time?! I've just been using the stock headset so far (which are relatively decent for bundled earphones) so I've never encountered issues like that personally.
Yes, obviously the stock headset is compatible. Now try any third-party (i.e. NORMAL) headset and you'll hear what I'm talking about! It's very weird, vocals get anihilated and you get tons of lossy-like artifacts. It's completely unlistenable.
I started a thread about it. WavPack developer David Bryant had this to say:
What you are describing sounds very much to me like you are hearing the difference between the left and right channels. That causes voices to almost vanish (because they tend to be identical in both channels) and causes the rest to sound distorted because you are getting mostly reverb and other difference signals (and, of course, things that are hard panned).
I have had this exact thing happen with mismatched connectors and I tracked it down to the simple situation that the signal leads of the left and right channels were being connected across the signal and ground leads of the headphone, resulting in only the difference making it to the headphone.