Distorted/muffled speaker sound

So I have a 32gb black iPhone 4. Periodically, my speaker will have rather quiet, or distorted sound output. Randomly after using the speaker for a few minutes, the sound returns to normal. I've seen some people with dead speakers, but not this. Any ideas on how to fix? Should I just go to the genius bar? Anyone else having this problem?
For clarification, this is the bottom speaker, not the earpiece.

This may not be the exact same issue, but I noticed that the iphone 4 was distorting audio playback in the ipod and on pandora causing the headphone magnets to overload. In other words it was not source distortion which is common and acceptable in rock music etc.
This disturbed me enough with the dropped calls to put the iphone 4 back in the box. Im not a hater this is my 4th iphone in 3 years. But I listen to music all day on my iphone and this all I could handle.
I went out and bought a gen 1 on craigslist after living with this issue for 3 weeks. I wish I hadnt sold my 3gs but hey a nice gen 1 looks cool, and the wifi speeds are the same as the iphone 4.
Bye iPhone 4, Ill wait for the next rev.

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Not a usual complaint. Is it just one speaker or both? If the former, it would probably be a hardware issue and may have to be replaced. If the latter, considering what you have tried already, I would suggest a OS reinstall (this is just a guess on my part). Consider an appointment at an Apple store genius bar. It is free and they may have a definitive answer for you.
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It sounds like you are unable to get sound from your internal speaker on your phone. I recommend the troubleshooting from the following article to help resolve the issue with your phone, named:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5180
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Ensure that there is nothing plugged in to the headset jack or the dock connector.
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Just wondering if it is normal for the quality of the speaker sound to start to suck when the song your playing has a lot of sound going on at one time at max speaker volume.

so I guess playing music on max volume through the speakers isnt a good idea?
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Message Edited by hussain on 06-10-2009 10:26 PM

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