MacBook Pro speaker sound quality

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) built-in output speaker sound quality is bad. But sound is good while using headphones. How can it be repired by settings.

Posted on Oct 6, 2020 11:37 PM

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chuck_3rd

Community Specialist

Oct 12, 2020 1:09 PM in response to tanejav

Hey tanejav,

We understand that when you use the speakers of your MacBook Pro, you are hearing bad sound quality but there is no issues when using headphones with your MacBook Pro. To start isolating this issue, you could start in safe mode and then restart out to see if the same issue continues: How to use safe mode on your Mac You could also try testing to see if this happens in a new user as well: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac

To help us understand what's going on, please let us know if this happens in any app you try to listen to audio with.

Let us know what you find out. In the meantime, take care.

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