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Hi everyone! I searched for this but if I missed something, I apologize and please point me to the right place.
I have a 21.5" Intel Imac that isn't quite a year old (year in April) and JBL Duet speakers that were bought with it at the same time.
Last evening they were working wonderfully. I had no problems with them. Never have.
I work my husband up to stay up so he can get back on track after holidays for working night shift, and went to bed. He came up about half an hour later complaining that the speakers were no longer working. He was complaining about buzzing when they were plugged into the headphone port. And distorted voices on his movie.
He had them plugged into the microphone spot, not the headphones (and kept insisting that was right.) So I've fixed that and plugged them in where they are supposed to be.
Problem is that I only have sound coming from the internal speakers. There's no little bloop noise when you use the volume control on the remote or the keyboard. With the speakers on or off, system preferences does not seem to see them. It does have headphones listed for output, so I have that selected. But on input, it has the built in mic and also is saying there is another input device but nothing is connected there. No sound from the speakers at all.
I think he messed something up and now the Imac is thinking there's a mic when there isn't and trying to treat the speakers as the mic? I can't get them to work at all and really would like them too. He plugged them into his macbook the other day without and issue and back into mine without one, so I'm not entirely sure what happened.
Please give me some ideas! This is my first mac and I'm clueless.
Thanks.
I have a 21.5" Intel Imac that isn't quite a year old (year in April) and JBL Duet speakers that were bought with it at the same time.
Last evening they were working wonderfully. I had no problems with them. Never have.
I work my husband up to stay up so he can get back on track after holidays for working night shift, and went to bed. He came up about half an hour later complaining that the speakers were no longer working. He was complaining about buzzing when they were plugged into the headphone port. And distorted voices on his movie.
He had them plugged into the microphone spot, not the headphones (and kept insisting that was right.) So I've fixed that and plugged them in where they are supposed to be.
Problem is that I only have sound coming from the internal speakers. There's no little bloop noise when you use the volume control on the remote or the keyboard. With the speakers on or off, system preferences does not seem to see them. It does have headphones listed for output, so I have that selected. But on input, it has the built in mic and also is saying there is another input device but nothing is connected there. No sound from the speakers at all.
I think he messed something up and now the Imac is thinking there's a mic when there isn't and trying to treat the speakers as the mic? I can't get them to work at all and really would like them too. He plugged them into his macbook the other day without and issue and back into mine without one, so I'm not entirely sure what happened.
Please give me some ideas! This is my first mac and I'm clueless.
Thanks.