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Late 2013 15" Macbook Pro distorts audio with Facebook notifications?

So overall the audio has seemed pretty decent on the late 2013 15" Macbook Pro.


However, there have been a few occasions where I wonder if it's normal or if my machine may be defective.


A really easy example that other users could test for is on Facebook. The notification sound distorts and sounds like it's clipping/popping or otherwise struggling to play smoothly and sound good even when I'm around 20-40% volume levels.


It seems strange to me that this would occur on such a popular site on facebook, especially with my low volume settings. Can anyone verify if this does or does not happen on their 15" Late 2013 Macbook Pro?


I also seemed to hear a bit of "rattling" or vibrating sounds when watching a Netflix movie at max volume which caused me to lower the volume a few bars. I'm not sure if these are the type of speakers you are supposed to "break in" a little bit before maxing the volume? If so I would hope Apple would do that before shipment?


Well anyways I'm a little paranoid that something could be wrong with my macbook pro, it's hard to tell since it's not like every sound is obviously wrong. But the facebook notification thing is a bit much for me to ignore this issue...

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 5, 2013 11:42 PM

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Dec 19, 2013 6:14 AM in response to Tokadub

I also have late 2013 MBP Retina 15" and noticed the same problem with notification sounds on Skype and Adium. Default send/receive sounds on Adium is perfect example because I get very odd, some sort of "metal" sound when using internal speakers, however if I connect my headphones sounds seems perfectly fine.


If anyone else want to try a difference, try Adium->Preferences->events and test sounds for send/receive with both internal speakers and headphones.

Late 2013 15" Macbook Pro distorts audio with Facebook notifications?

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