Headphone jack audio problem

I have a confusing problem, any music played through my iphone headphone jack (ie a variety of headphones/adapers tried) sounds garbled unless the bitrate is 320kpbs. All music sounds fine when played through a powered amp, or through the internal speakers. This made me think it was a problem with the headphone jack however, as i stated before audio files with a bit rate of 320 kbps work fine.
Any ideas why this glitching is occuring?

The bitrate for the majority of my music is 128kbps, and some 256kbps, and I've experienced no such problem.
What did you use for the encoding when the music was imported into iTunes - MP3 or AAC, etc.? iTunes and the iPhone supports several, but may like AAC better, which also uses the least amount of storage space for each song on your computer.
But since the music plays without being garbled otherwise, sounds like your iPhone's headphone port has a problem.

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