Noise on 16-inch Macbook pro speaker when I’m using logic pro x

First you should look at who my original post was a reply to...second you might try to get out of the habit of linear thought and third you might try reading using your intellect instead of over the top emotion. You are not getting it!

Easy there, folks :-) Pancenter has been suffering with this issue from early on, as we all have, and I read him as making a valid point, among others, about relying on the speakers as a mixing tool given that they are indeed very "Bose-y" in their sound, but that Apple has a duty to repair them anyway. Ability isn't dependent on the quality of the speakers.

I was responding to the point that comes up every so often-- and did again in relation to Apple and Oak Felder promoting this machine-- that the speaker problem shouldn't be such a big deal because "the pros" use interfaces, headphones, etc. Great. We do, too. But if I buy a new car and the air-conditioning doesn't work, I'm still going to take the car back to the dealer even though the car still gets me to work without the air conditioning. I paid for it; I get it.

You also said something-- also right-- about "in fairness to those who are suffering from the speaker problem". Sorry everyone got so worked up :-) As I say, you were making fair points. These speakers need to work regardless of talent or workflow.

A few weeks back, I needed to play a rough mix of a choral work for a client. We were outside doing the social distancing thing. I really needed the speakers to work, even though the job obviously wasn't going to live and die based on that meeting. I thought they would based on doing the 48kHz Swap Fix. They didn't. So we had to use a crappy bluetooth speaker. Not cool, Apple.

And not cool, Linear and Emotional Readers :-)

"in fairness to those who are suffering from the speaker problem".

But if you read it in context with who I was replying to, -Da Captain- I was actually defending the use of mixing with the internal speakers had they been working correctly. Always look at who the post is addressed to and read the reply in context.

I am sorry Pancenter. You are right. I was quite busy with another task when I wrote my comments and it seems I misunderstood your comment. I would delete my comments but it seems I can always only edit the last one... Multitasking isn't always the best choice ;-)

Insane! It is just insane, frustrating that they do nothing about it! nothing!!! The people you get on the phone are useless( sorry but true) What a terrible experience! And I have bought the Apple Care thing for an extra + $300..... That's an insult

Like others have said, I would not have purchased this model if I had know about the issue. It's totally ridiculous that this is their flagship "pro" machine and there is no fix yet. As for using the built in speakers for pro audio work...I bought a laptop so that I don't have to be tied to my studio monitors and desk all the time. I like to listen to a lot of music and watch movies etc and I don't want to be forced to always use headphones. I don't understand why this isn't a priority as it affects all users. It just happens to be an especially egregious pain point for people that use the speakers a lot.

I agree too that there needs to be compensation, a recall, or a fix ASAP.

I am so glad I found this thread. I first experienced this in Logic and kept thinking that I must have accidentally added some weird effects plugin or done something to cause the weird noises.

It is not the galloping noise on my machine. It is more of the popping and almost static-like noise that a few people have posted videos of, so I didn't know what it was at first, except that I just assumed it was either something I was doing or maybe that it was a blown speaker.

But like most of you, I only recently got this laptop and there is no way a speaker could already be blown. Also like some of you, I notice it more when making music than when listening to music.

I finally realized that it was definitely not being caused by something I was doing when I heard it in Reaper too (a DAW music program like Logic, if you don't know).

This was very helpful - thank you for posting it. I still hope Apple will address this and fix the problem (it's incredible that they could ignore such a problem on such an expensive machine), but in the meantime, this has worked for me.

Thanks for going the extra mile mavisounds. While I am in complete agreement with all the sentiments and desires expressed here, I recently hooked up a new pair of good monitor speakers and can never go back to the on-board speakers when doing work in Logic. Lol.

A fix to the problem will be a welcome treat. Hope it happens for those here who are relying on it.

Hi CGaddy

I pretty much never produce using the built in speakers. But sometimes if I’m just fiddling about it’s nice to just have a play on them. Or so I thought... Currently we’re being greeted by the new state of the art “auto-purr” Lone Ranger galloping across the Mac sound. We pay at least 2 grand for these machines. Mine personally cost just over 3 with the configurations. It’s like buying a Lamborghini and it only having 3 wheels.

To me this smells like they know it’s perhaps a hardware issue (or something else serious) and they’re trying to figure out what on Earth to do now. Maybe an entire device recall is in the works, who knows. Or they’re just going to have a magician wave his coding wand over it and fix it like that.

Long story short- I don’t rely on the onboard speakers. But it’s an embarrassment on apples behalf to make us pay this amount of money for a device which has such an obvious flaw. The more of us that persistently raise this to Apple, the more chance we’ve got.

fingers crossed folks!

I totally agree with you, I want a refund or to substitute my laptop with the next model if they do not manage to fix the problem. At least I want a partial refund for the issue I have been experiencing so far, practically unusable speaker.

(By the way this is not the only problem for me, it gets very hot while connected to an external monitor it is a know problem as well because the gpu draws 18 watts. You cannot even install ubuntu, maybe the only computer on the earth like this..)

Nope. Waiting for us to forget and for it all to blow over :(.

After forty years of being an Apple Fanboy (yep, I used an Apple II in high school, before the Mac), I’m done with Apple.

Steve Jobs RIP.

Still no fix, I just updated to the last Catalina, still doing this noise! It's ridiculous, Apple has really gone down in quality over the last few years, it's really annoying. Also my computer on top of that noise is overheating and I mean overheating seriously! Something that I thought of, could it be the internal fan interfering with speakers that does this?

The 44/48 kHz swap is like trying to put a band-aid on a blister under water. It sticks for about a second, and isn't a real cure anyway.

I, too, have given up-- and have contacted a class action lawyer. I've been an Apple Fanboy all my life and feel unbelievably let down. This is disgraceful for what is supposed to be their top of the line media production laptop. Musicians have been financially beaten up enough by The Plague Hysteria this year, without adding insult to injury.