IPhone 4S Earpiece Speaker Muffled

The past week I have noticed all my phone calls have been muffled coming out of the earpiece speaker. If I turn on speaker phone then I can hear the conversation normally thus eliminating any volume or software issues. Any ideas for I go ahead and file for a replacement?

Chare,
I have notice muffled or bassy sounding audio in the ear piece. Not on all calls and mostly happens with a friend of mine who uses a Droid and again not all the time. (same carrier for both of us are on ATT).
I have not tried speaker phone while this problem is manifesting itself but if I have switched to a bluetooth headset and the problem goes away.
This problem existed on my first 4s and also on my replacement 4S. The replacement was for a different problem, power/lock button malfunction.
Short story I don't know if swapping your phone will solve your problem but considering what it cost you I would ask Apple to swap it out for you. Maybe the swap will work for you where it didn't for me.
PS - I worked around too many Jet Engines and my high frequency hearing is pretty poor so when the "Bass/Muffled" problem kicks in it makes it very difficult for me to understand people.

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> > discussion forums on our support website:
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