bad sound quality with headphones

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bad sound quality with headphones

Hello,

while you may not expect high quality from the MacBook's internal speakers, I expected the audio quality to be good when connecting a headphone. So I tried it with headphones that perform good with an iPod, and used audio of good quality. But the sound quality outputted by the MacBook was terribly bad.

Is the audio amplifier of the MacBook of bad quality, or is something wrong with my MacBook?

I'm looking forward to your responses.

Best regards, Jan

MacBook late 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Mar 19, 2010 9:22 AM

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Answer 1

Lyssa

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Mar 19, 2010 10:39 AM in response to Jan Laarhuis

Make sure the headphones are firmly connected to the headphone jack.

Also try another set of headphones, if possible.

Is the audio quality poor no matter which application you're using? If so, you're probably looking at a hardware issue that needs to be repaired.

~Lyssa

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Answer 2

Jan Laarhuis Author

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Mar 19, 2010 3:21 PM in response to Lyssa

Lyssa,

thanks for your response. The headphones are firmly connected and good enough to tell the audio signal fed to them is of poor quality. However, I tried them only with iTunes. But with my older iMac I've never had complaints about the iTunes sound quality! So I think both the software and the headphones are not to blame. I wonder whether others do experience this bad sound quality as well with the latest MacBook. If so, I have to get back to Apple because my MacBook is less than 2 months old...

Regards, Jan

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Answer 3

Apr 6, 2010 10:07 PM in response to Jan Laarhuis

I have a similar problem, however it only happens when I use the earphones from the 3G iPhone. The moment i plug in my older ipod earphones into my macbook the sound is fine again.

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