ipod 5g may destroy your right earphone (reported by users on iounge)

[atx]

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Originally Posted by The Monkey Someone please measure for offset!

I did on my 5G. 0.4 mV - 0.6 mV for both headphone out and line out.

 

[nicknameless]

Maybe the right headphone on the cheap ibuds is just inferior to the right?

 

[Jahn]

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Originally Posted by nicknameless Maybe the right headphone on the cheap ibuds is just inferior to the right?

well the lounge thread said it happened with other cans too, so it's probably on the ipod's side. but mine works fine, tho i admit to mostly using the line out/dock for tunes.

 

[ghopper]

i've been using my 3g 40gb ipod for a year and a half now (time to replace the battery) and i've been using various earphones on it and nothing of those things mentioned above happened to me. my ec7 are fine and so are my apple earbuds. the only thing close to the electric shock incident is when i'm using the apple earbuds and during the winter when i take of my jacket the static makes its way to my ears. doesn't hurt much though. good luck to those with the right earbud problem.

 

[J Tran]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenaciousO I'm thinking about returning my iPod because this thing almost killed me a few days ago. Okay... ...not quite, but it was very unusual nevertheless. I was walking to my car listening to the iPod with the iPod earbuds, and then the earbuds friggin' electrocuted me for like 1-1.5 seconds. It actually stung quite a bit. I haven't had a problem since but I went to check on ilounge.com to see if someone had a similar experience to mine, and it looks like someone has except he was wearing iems, and the shock temporarily damaged his eardrums. I now I see a bunch of posts of the iPod damaging headphones, and I'm getting worried. I was already thinking about "downgrading" to an iaudio flash player, and this gives me another reason.

Ha! Same thing happend to me... with sony earbuds. CAn't tell you which ones because don't have them by me. But I was listening to my mini. And get a load of this... It shocked me TWICE! hahahah, yeah I'm a little over exageration. But that is weird nothing but 2 shocks. New PX 200s arrived today!

 

[CamelBackCinema]

Just from what I've read, this defect should show up the very minute you start listening to your ibuds or whatever, I knew my first one did that and it was a loud static crackling sound. After that, it never got that loud again and you could clearly hear the permanent damage to the right ear phone.

So if your ipod has performed well then you shouldn't be worried about it.

 

[davidd]

ok, I'm convinced it's my nano that is killing the right channel of my earphones now, as the right channel of my super.fi 3's have just died again after only having had the cable replaced a week ago. going to have Apple replace my nano now, and hopefully that won't have any problems

 

[xluben]

If the right channel of your super.fi's diead and a replacement cable solved the problem, then I don't think it is the same issue. I believe the Nano would cause the driver to stop functioning, and therefore a new cable would do nothing.

 

[davidd]

yeah, that was waht I was thinking also. I never had a single issue with the earphones before I got the nano a few weeks ago though, so I'm thinking the nano has something to do with it, but I havn't heard much about this happening with nano's, only the full sized iPod's

 

[Cpl Rampage]

i havent had the porblem with my ipod yet, but i have gotten shocked before, but i think that was because of static electricity when i was taking my fleace coat off, and had the headphones in my ears

 

[xUKHCx]

have had no problems with my ipod at all, its 1.5 years old. use pocketdock mostly but have used the headphone out lots.

 

[alex paik]

so i measured the headphone out on my 5g ipod.. and when i touched the tip to the center ring of a male-to-male 1/8", it was around 0.4.. but when i touched the tip to the big sleeve, it went up to 1.0-1.2.. im not sure if i checked right or something but do i have a defective ipod that will ruin my brand new dt880s? i went to local radioshack to use their multimeter and they had either Volts or mA which i think is milliAmps.. did i use the wrong one? i hope so..

do i not have to worry about blowing my right dt880? that would majorly suck.. is 1.0-1.2 enough to do it?

i havent used my ipod since i saw the other thread in the headphones section..

 

[Edwood]

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex paik so i measured the headphone out on my 5g ipod.. and when i touched the tip to the center ring of a male-to-male 1/8", it was around 0.4.. but when i touched the tip to the big sleeve, it went up to 1.0-1.2.. im not sure if i checked right or something but do i have a defective ipod that will ruin my brand new dt880s? i went to local radioshack to use their multimeter and they had either Volts or mA which i think is milliAmps.. did i use the wrong one? i hope so.. do i not have to worry about blowing my right dt880? that would majorly suck.. is 1.0-1.2 enough to do it? i havent used my ipod since i saw the other thread in the headphones section..

Those should be mV (millivolt). If it's Volts, then you are in trouble. Unplug those headphones stat!

-Ed

 

[alex paik]

ok, so here's the update on my 5g.. so i went back to radioshack and found out that you can change the Volts to mV.. so i did and tip to center ring came out to like 0.2-0.4.. the tip to the inner ring started off at -1.0 to -1.2 and just jumped up and down to .6.. is this bad to have negative 1.0?

 

[Edwood]

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Originally Posted by alex paik ok, so here's the update on my 5g.. so i went back to radioshack and found out that you can change the Volts to mV.. so i did and tip to center ring came out to like 0.2-0.4.. the tip to the inner ring started off at -1.0 to -1.2 and just jumped up and down to .6.. is this bad to have negative 1.0?

You should be just fine.

-Ed