Weird buzzing alarm sound from my earbuds?

Not sure if this is the right section to post it in. This happened yesterday when I was taking my earbuds off and I got zapped by static electricity. When I was going to put them back on I heard this frequent and loud buzzing sound coming out from them. When I unplugged it from my Mac mini the audio from the internal speakers work fine but when it plug it in, it begins buzzing. I don't think it's the earbuds problem as I switched to another one and it still buzzes. The right earbud is nothing but buzzing while the left one the buzzing is slightly fainter but the audio is constantly interrupted. So I don't know what's wrong. Can any of you help? Thanks in advanced.

Oh and they're not apple earbuds either.

Is your Mac Mini still under warranty or extended Apple care? If it is, you might want to take it on in and have it checked. The static zap may have caused a problem with the audio output from the headphones jack. That's a separate circuit from the speakers.

chscag said:

Is your Mac Mini still under warranty or extended Apple care? If it is, you might want to take it on in and have it checked. The static zap may have caused a problem with the audio output from the headphones jack. That's a separate circuit from the speakers.

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I don't the warranty info and I didn't get the extended Apple care. My father wasn't gonna spend the extra money for my new computer.

*don't have the warranty info

Not sure about the static shock. But ive found the screening on my imac isnt great and is always running interference on speakers or headphones. The noises fit your descriptions of buzzing and other highly irritating things.

I think that the Mac may have put a surge through the headphones and have now damaged the buds. I also think that apple could be quite reasonable to sort this out for a you as it's a risk (getting shocked) and shouldn't happen. Go down to your local apple store and make a fuss (thats what i did when my battery blew on my old apple mac, and they replaced it, no worries)
As for the headphones, perhaps suggest that they are broken also, perhaps they will replace them, if not I suggest Ebay or sometimes you might get lucky with a Groupon as i did with headphones.
It's annoying when things like this happen, I feel your pain buddy

BigEd82 said:

I think that the Mac may have put a surge through the headphones and have now damaged the buds. I also think that apple could be quite reasonable to sort this out for a you as it's a risk (getting shocked) and shouldn't happen. Go down to your local apple store and make a fuss (thats what i did when my battery blew on my old apple mac, and they replaced it, no worries)
As for the headphones, perhaps suggest that they are broken also, perhaps they will replace them, if not I suggest Ebay or sometimes you might get lucky with a Groupon as i did with headphones.
It's annoying when things like this happen, I feel your pain buddy

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I'll try the apple store thing, but I think it may be the computer's problem as the headphones work just fine. I've tried it on my father's iPad. If it is the computer's problem, should I save everything into a thumbdrive just in case or no?