Is there still a possible headphone socket fault in a "new" zen mic

Hi
i want to buy a zen micro 6gig...because of its great soundquality and price....the only thing that holds me back are reports about a headphone socket fault. But those reports are from march...so im wondering if there is still a "more-than-normal" risk to get a damaged headphone socket with a micro?
tobi

Ordinarily I would say there's no real evidence either way about a fixed jack. But we keep getting emails from people at Creative, that are posted by users here, that say that the jack has been revised. So it does sound like there's a body of evidence that the jack has been upgraded.

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