5300 - player background hiss

Hi!
Anybody else experiencing background hiss when using the music/media player?
Symptom: As soon as I press play the hiss starts.
The hiss is maybe not so clear when you use the included headset (which I threw in my "useless gimmicks box" after a few minutes of testing...). When I use good quality ear plugs (e.g. Koss), the hiss is really noticeable on low volume levels and during calm parts of a song. For an audiophile this is a bit disturbing.
Somebody else posted about the same issue for N90 here.
This isn't about low quality mp3 encoding, I use 256kb/s as standard. And I don't have any problems with background noise on my mp3 players or with home stereo use. Tried also other file formats.
Is this a software or hardware issue? Or a faulty handset?

My 5300 has that too.
On very quiet parts I can even hear it with the internal speaker.
Maybe you don't hear it with the original headset, coz it's as cheap as the audio part of that phone.
Xpress Music is an arrogance for that phone :-(

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