IPod killing headphones?

My 5.5G iPod video was doing fine until recently. In the past 3 months, I've bought and returned 3 pairs of high-quality earphones because after a while either the left or the right stopped working at a decent volume. On the second time, the clerk told me perhaps my iPod is sending electrical charges to my headphones and that's why there is always one side not working. I didn't really believe him until now.
It's my third pair of earphones now, the left one stopped working a couple of hours ago. Note that I'm only using them on my iPod and I'm really careful with them, so I can't believe I've been out of luck 3 times in a row. Should I downgrade my firmware, and is it possible that it's indeed my iPod who is killing my earphones?

I personally don't agree with the statement, I believe it is the bad contact between the iPod's earphone jack and the plug causing the problem.
You can see from time to time, there are posts regarding to they can only hear one channel from the earphones.
May be it is the quality control problem, after hundred times of plug and unplug of the earphones with the iPod, the iPod jack's metal contact parts become lose, and created space in between the plug and the jack.
Consider setting up a mail-in repair for your iPod http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/
Or visit your local Apple Retail Store http://www.apple.com/retail/
In case your iPod is no longer covered by the warranty and you want to find a second repairing company, you can try iPodResQ or ifixit (if you good to deal with electronic part) at your own risk
http://www.ipodresq.com/index.php
http://www.ifixit.com/ - for the part replacement (earphone jack)

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