Low Static Through Headphones

Hello,

I have a 30 Gb iPod Video 5th Gen.

I get a low amount of static through the headphones when the unit is on. I am using relatively high quality headphones (RBH EP3). I have tried other headphones and the result is the same.

I was upgrading the memory of my wife’s iPod to 780 Gb using the iFlash Quad SD adapter. The unit is in outstanding shape as she didn’t use it much.

I also replaced the battery as it was weak (but pretty good for 14 year old device).

While testing using some classical music, with lots rests (silence between notes) I noticed the static and found it irritating.

Is there a way to fix this? Is this part of some of these iPods? I had another 30 Gb iPod 5th gen (stolen long ago) and I don’t remember this issue. I used decent quality headphones on those as well.

I have reconnected the headphone ribbon to the logic board and reconnected both the original HDD (for tests) and the iFlash adapter.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!