If Your Earphones Are Sounding Fuzzy...

Try restoring your iPod!!!
Recently, my earphones started to have that fuzzy sound like I blew them out or something. So I decided that I'd have to visit the Apple store soon to see what they could do. But (thank goodness) before I ever did make that trip I decided to restore my iPod because I haven't done so in a while.
Well I restored it and the fuzzy sound is gone.
Does anybody have a possible explanation for this?

My nephew has $15 earbuds he bought for his iPod and I think the stock Apple earbuds sound better even though his do fit me better. If I actually used the buds more than about once a month, I'd look into something that fit better but I can't see wasting money on something that will just sit in the drawer.
Sound is subjective. I have two audiophile friends. One loves Klipsch products and the other thinks that Klipsch sounds like something off the shelf at Walmart. If I asked advice of one, he'd say Klipsch. If I asked the other person, he'd tell me to not waste money on Klipsch.
In the case of the OP, his issue is static from the cable rubbing against his clothes in the wintry NY climate. When I still lived up north, the cord on my Sony headphones would cause the earphones to zap my ears from the cord rubbing against my wool sweaters.

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