Q: Mac makes really loud noise even though volume is low?
Hello! This is my first post here, so if I submitted wrong or anything, please tell me, and I'll change it! (:
So my iMac is about 5-6 years old. And today, when I went to play an audio post on the social media site Tumblr, it made a really loud noise, almost like I had turned the volume up really high. Except it wasn't. It was really low; only about 4 of those little volume bars that you get when you hit the keyboard's volume down key. Furthermore, I had something playing softly in the background, too, so I know that it wasn't that my volume was actually turned up.
This happened before on an older Macbook--when I went to delete a file that I had downloaded, the trash sound played much, much louder than it should have been capable of and did so when the volume had been muted.
If there's any way to fix this or anything wrong with my computer, please tell me! Thank you.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Aug 1, 2016 11:03 PM