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...

  As far as I know all Apple has just acknowledged is that they've received multiple similar reports, they haven't acknowledge it's a 'problem' per se.   This video should demonstrate many of the situations where you should be hearing the noise, and what it should sort of sound like (it will...

Because of the nature of the problem, it's really difficult to know what is going on here. Either   The issue is batch or model related, which explains why some users hear the noise and some don't. So far we've ruled out Samsung vs TSMC chips as being the differentiator. We don't know if it...

Every now and then you might still hear some buzz from some background activity on the phone. Background app refreshing, etc. Maybe if you switched to airplane mode you could eliminate most of the buzzing.

  Hey Yuriv, it's Lachlan! Nice work on the measurements, I'm looking forward to seeing more results. We're discussing the EMI noise and your measurements in this thread, so it's nice to get some actual numbers.

  Thanks elfary, this is interesting stuff. Do you have the source link?

  I had a Samsung 6S, vwinter has a TSMC 6S+. Both hear the buzzing.

  Wait, really? So, the 'Made for iPhone' certification process is also meaningless? That's just a stupid response.   I ended up returning my 6S on Friday (not just because of the buzzing). I really doubt at this point that Apple is going to openly acknowledge an issue that's only a problem...

I had an email exchange with Ken some time ago so he should be aware of the noise that I've picked up on my recorders.   As for me, today is the last day that I have to return the iPhone 6S. I'm really of a strong mind to return it today because there are a few things besides the buzzing that...

So just to add a little more information in light of other reported differences between the TSMC and Samsung chipped iPhone 6S, my unit is reported as a N71AP in the 'Lirum Device Info Lite' app suggested in the Engadget article. This means it's the Samsung chip. Don't know if this might be a...

Got a quick update from Apple support yesterday after my issue was escalated to engineering; they said they were investigating and confirmed that they had received several similar complaints. So that's promising.