I'll go for some Port and a Cubano if you have any to share please Lion?
As for expanding on something
@Gully_Foyle said above, I guess it's possible that there is a stubborn piece of dust in your socket? Perhaps a small shriveled piece of a corpse?!
This might sound like I'm winding you up old chap, but I promise I'm not - find a paperclip and unfold it, then bend a piece of it back on itself sharply, so it's long enough to poke into your headphone socket to the bottom. Probably best to switch it off for this though!
Then get some sticky tape, and wrap it around the newly bent paperclip pokey thing, but wrapping it backwards on itself. It's a fiddly job, so you can pinch the starting end of it between the bit of paperclip that you bent back on itself (hope that makes sense).
Then, make several wraps of the tape onto itself, so the sticky bit is on the outside, but wrap tightly so it'll fit inside the jack socket.
Then you have a jack-cleaning pokey device, that you can use to gently poke in, and it should pull out any little bits of dust, body parts, or other carp that might be stuck in there.
It's a fiddly little gizmo, but only costs a couple of pennies, and may help out. It solved one of my old static headsets.
But from your description, I worry it might not be the answer sadly, as you mentioned hearing other voices on the static - were you around any combat areas, or using a fighter, or near a station, that could be faking a voice bleed through? Just a thought, but it could be part of it.
I hope this helps, although I suspect the issue you're describing is a little more complex. Especially as it coincides with the update perfectly. Anyhow, give it a go, will be interesting to see if it works.
I think sticky tape was around in the fourties so should be available, which is something. Good luck you old rascal, and hope it helps!!
