Audio feedback in Facetime Audio after OS X 10.9.2 Update

Hi Everyone,

I have a mac mini, Logitech C920 camera and an external wired Foxl 2- sound matters speaker that plugs into the earphone port. I tried everything! The workaround was to set the input level very low in the Sound dialog box. That didn't work. I tried the audio midi setup, and I tried use the internal speakers. Nothing worked. I get perfect reception on my iPad. Skype does work perfectly everywhere. No one really has a clue about what to do. An Apple senior advisor said it was a bug in Facetime. This has been going on for a long time. Maybe one of you brilliant people can think of something that will work.

I have the same problem on my mid-2012 rMBP, however I only get it when using an external BT speaker. I can mostly correct it by turning down the volume, but it kind of defeats the purpose of an external speaker. Oddly, the feedback goes away entirely if I use the internal speakers - even at full volume.

Normally, the other way to correct feedback would be to reduce the mic gain. But, FaceTime completely disregards the mic level setting through the Sound pref pane or through Audio MIDI Setup. According to the level indicator (in FaceTime), the level is much higher than it needs to be. Even a quiet room sees about 25-40%.

Since there is zero feedback when using the internal speakers - obviously the worst case scenario since the mic and speaker are in such close proximity - the feedback is somehow related to the handling of the audio streams.

I hope someone has a workaround, as it would be nice to use FaceTime Audio on the Mac.

The solution is to use headphones on the Mac.

However, as I mentioned, FaceTime Audio does work using the internal speakers and mic(s) perfectly. It's only if I use the external Bluetooth speaker (Bose Soundlink Mini) that results in the echo for the person I called.

Just for "fun", I'm going to try it with a wired connection (which would be the headphone port). I suspect it'll be OK, but there I go thinking again...

I have the same problem with Facetime, but skype works fine. Facetime were perfect before the 10.9.2 upgrade.

Having this issue too, any news or tips?

I was hoping 10.9.3 would fix the problem, but it did not.

I finally got rid of the Facetime echo 🙂 I deleted the hard disk, then I reinstalled OS X. Now everything works perfect. Do not forget to backup your files.

First i tried to restore it, but that did not work. Then i set it up from scratch and used a tool that allowed me to import programs etc. from time machine. I importet everything exept network settings. I don´t know if network settings has anything to do with the echo, but it seemed as an good ide for me at that time.

Try to google a bit, it was not that hard. I have never done anything like that before. To start just hold down cmd + R at start up.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872?viewlocale=en_US klick on

Time Machine or other disk migration

Yes, that is correct 🙂 If you try, let us know how it went.