Strange noise when iPod Touch doesn't play music...

hello dear board members
I have a weird problem with my brand new iPod Touch. As soon as there is no music
playing, I have noise in my earphones. This vanishes if I just mute the music. I wonder
wether this is a hardware probleme, i.e. interference of some kind. It's not very loud, but
it drives me crazy and I think this is not normal, is it? What could I do to remove this, or will
it be necessary to send in my ipod?
best
yoveo

right now I'm using just the standard apple earphones. With my sony headphones,
it's a lot less noticeable. It's just that with my old 2nd gen iPod I didn't have this hissing.
I just find it weird that the headphone jack outputs a signal when there s no music playing.
best
yoveo
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