As the title suggests I'm having problems with my brand new DT770/Pro-80 headphones with my 160Gb iPod Classic.

The pod pauses the music after a little while as if I had disconnected the headphones (handy feature otherwise, but not here )

Any ideas on what to do to prevent this?

The headphones work very well everywhere else, it's just my pod that seems to be incompactible.

p.s. Just to clarify, the headphones are connected with a 3.5mm jack

I think the main problem is the 3.5mm jack. The newer ipods are reported to have problems with those because the connection is too loose. Try using a 3.5mm to 3.7mm adapter.