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Does your MacBook Pro Retina speakers buzz?

I have the new MacBook Pro Retina, which I absolutely love. The only issue so far is that the speakers buzz sometimes. I've tried different equalizer settings, which helps somewhat. Has anyone else experienced a buzzing or distortion in their audio output? It almost sounds as though a speaker is blown.

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Posted on Jul 2, 2012 7:33 PM

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Jan 6, 2014 11:27 AM in response to zBernie2

My speakers started doing this too, but before I took it in I took a last stitch effort to fix it. I cleaned it a little bit right above the keyboard just before it turns into the screen (right where it folds over and there are little squares).

-I blew into it to clean it up, dusted a little bit and all of the sudden my speakers worked again! I keep my macbook pro w/retina very clean and make sure to put it on clean surfaces too, it just needed a little dusting.

So in all, just try doing that first! Maybe it will help like it did with mine.

Aug 7, 2015 9:43 AM in response to zBernie2

I had this also, pretty badly, with a mid 2015 Macbook with latest updates. I found that I could fix it as follows:


* Open iTunes

* Open the Equalizer from the Window menu

* Turn the Equalizer off by unchecking the "On" check box


Just turning down the preamp also seems to work. It seems to be a combination of iTunes volume (not system-wide volume) and this preamp that creates clipping of sound that for me was quite evident even with the system-wide volume turned way down.


Having made that change, everything sounds great!

Nov 22, 2016 2:49 AM in response to zBernie2

My problem is, my macbook retina pro starts having audio problems if it's ON continuously for more than 3-4 hours. The audio starts to distort. I tried all the settings mentioned in the trailing comments. But when it didn't improve, I took it to service center in Jaipur, the engineer started to laugh and said that I am the first person to be facing this issue. They didn't even try diagnosing the problem. My question is, does anybody else have the same problem.


In addition to this, my computer hangs multiple times a day. Any answer to this problem will be helpful, since I am not receiving any help from apple service center in Jaipur.


Thank you.

Does your MacBook Pro Retina speakers buzz?

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