Earphone Distortion.

Hi.
So I bought my iPod Touch 16GB about a year and a half ago & i also bought a 3 year warranty . i haven't updated it to 3G yet.
About a day or two ago, my earphones started to have problems such as the voice of the song gets all funny . When i fiddle around with the earphone plug and the jack the sound returns to normal. I'm wondering if its my earphones that need a replacement or is it the earphone/headphone jack that needs fixing.
my ipod touch has been pretty ok, once the home screen button stopped working but i got that problem solved. about a month or so ago, my original headphone stopped working so i exchanged it for a new one which looked a bit different than the old one but i figured that it was no big deal.
can someone please help me? this ipod touch means a lot to me ! thank you !

I noticed this on my first phone. I haven't had the 2nd phone long enough to comment but hope the problem is resolved.
I think it's a matter of most of us having to max out the volume which may cause clipping. I'm holding out confidence that this is going to be fixed.

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- Check also Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing. Make sure that the sound balance is not set all the way to "R".
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
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- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
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