This. Absolutely this. Friggin’ this.
I’m not buying the overly-strong magnets idea. If that were the case, there would be way more reports about this than the first two I’ve ever heard of. And they would have appeared long before 2020.
And lowering the pickup all the way down and still having the the problem? I don’t think so….
Yep. I currently build my own pickups which have magnets that are twice as strong as the magnets in EBMM pickups. I'm not having any problems with them.