IPod Touch 3rd gen sound problem - fixed? - iOS 5.1

Hello -
Since updating my iPod Touch 3rd generation to iOS 5.1, the sound quality has decreased dramatically. The problem was only in my headphone jack, regardless of headphone or earbud type. The symptom was hard to describe: some songs had decreased bass, other songs sounded fine but with very quiet vocals.
I'm an engineer and these seemed like "digital" problems to me, so if it wasn't for a friend suggesting I test the problem with different headphones-vs-jack-vs-internal speaker, the thought never would have occurred to me:
There was a tiny bit of lint in the headphone jack. I unfolded a paper clip, carefully picked out and blew away the lint.
So far, the solution appears to be working.
I still don't understand how those symptoms would be caused by a connectivity problem in the jack. Perhaps the jack's extra terminal (used for things like volume control and song-change) was being shorted, just slightly, wreaking havoc elsewhere in the iPod.
(This was after trying all sorts of stuff, including a complete system "wipe" and restore.)
-gregg favalora

Yes. Other uses have experienced the same cause and corrective acition. That being foreign material n the headphone jack.

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