So it's never been categorically acknowledged or resolved to my knowledge, but many users have been reporting that going by the frequent failure of earphones it could be that the N900 is blasting DC down the line to phones.

I usually listen to music on my iPhone as it works better in every respect (and indeed, in most other respects as well, except for the GSM radio - which is still sucktacular) in terms of audio, but the increasing usability of things like aenbacka's QSpot, etc in the audio area is making me take another look at the N900 which I still have - mainly because if I sold it now, it'd fetch less than an early iPhone 3G - so I'm getting my money's worth out of it before finally ditching it, dammit.

The problem is that I'm not a user of your $50, $100 or even $500 pieces of ear gear. In conjunction with the stereo random reversal problem, a DC blast + expensive ear/headphones = not a great prospect.

Looking through the litany of audio issues I'm leery in any case, but I really would like to subject the N900 to more use than a second-string phone / email client.

Questions:
- Is/was this an actual issue
- If so, is it fixed?

Thanks