P.S. For anyone thinking i bash just because of China or western audiophile superiority - no i just got burned by articles like this and crinnancle reviews twice and sharing my experience.
Not when there is no media playing. This was back when the first Pros came out and when I googled it, there were a lot of reports of the same issue.
I say all this as a generally-happy Apple product consumer btw - and of course, there are many people who don’t experience these issues. But that goes for the Chi-Fi brands as well, since we’re ultimately talking about quality control.
It seems they're far more common to have a 2-pin connector now instead of MMCX.