Sound quality (like a stretched c90)

My ipod classic sounds like a strecthed c90 tape. What do you advise?

Hi
Yes some day a phone will come along and beat the N91 in headset sound quality,...(example stuff magazine in oct 2006 pitted the N91 head to head against others - http://stuff.tv/supertest/id-2808/).
Until then Ill stay stuck on my N91
PS: I have lost the older teardown link on the N91 which shows its specific audio chip however the recent teardown review of the 5700 references the N91 audio chip (ie 5700 has one as well) several times so I suspect the audio chip is more than just marketing hype.
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-5700-en.shtml
PS the N91 won again in this review wrt audio quality
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