Anybody notice the headphone contacts on the iPod touch are no longer gold plated? Necessary for maximum audio quality 
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iPod touch No more gold contacts
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Both gold/brass are more corrosion resistant than aluminum. Not everybody uses $3.00 earbuds.
...and if you really cared about audio quality, you wouldn't be using an Apple earphones in the first place.
They were always brass though ... but I did think you were talking about the actual ear buds.
I see that now. I read it as the ear buds.
Anybody notice the headphone contacts on the iPod touch are no longer gold plated? Necessary for maximum audio quality
Just clean them from time to time. Use some magnetic head cleaning fluid. It should get rid of the oxide layer, and thus, restore the audio quality.
(And if you really care that much about audio quality, try the Cowon S9)