1) folks over on the head-fi site have tested it with multimeters- read results on there
2) I emailed the UK apple press office-
[email protected]
unfortunately the women is an idiot and sent a stupid reply as below- ive sent another reply asking for more info and if she could tell me 100% there was no issue with stock earbuds
awaiting reply
Hi,
Thank you for your e-mail.
Unfortunately, as the headphones are a third party accessory then you
will need to contact the third party company for details of product
performance.
Kind Regards
Jennifer
Apple PR UK
On 22 Jan 2006, at 19:50,
[email protected], wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I was wondering what your response is to this thread, I recently
> became a member
> of ilounge and the users there have discovered that the 5g ipod may
> have a flaw.
>
> as an owner of very expensive UE super.fi earphones I now feel
> very concerned
> about using my earphones with an ipod. I was going to buy 5g video
> but now not
> sure.
>
> Can you guarantee my right earbud will not go wrong with use of your
> appliance???
>
> This was first reported at the below link and seems to be now
> spreading across
> the net (eg major websites such as talkaudio.co.uk, head-fi.com
> forums where
> people are reporting their own problems)
>
> forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?
> s=&threadid=144425&highlight=broke