New MacBook Air sound quality suspect

[dynamite]

Hi,
I bought a new MacBook Air few weeks ago running 10.11.4.
I somehow feel that the quality of sound is not good enough.
There is no problem with the volume but if I play an mp3 file in iTunes or VLC, it sounds too "noisy". The sounds of music instruments are too amplified.
If I activate the equalizer and set it to "Pop", then the sound quality becomes much much better.

Is this normal or did I get unlucky with faulty hardware?
I don't have another MacBook Air to compare it with.

Thanks.

 

[Quinten]

Speakers on the Macbook Air never been amazing, If setting it to pop helps you out, keep it that way.
Unless your audio sounds really distorted everything is fine

 

[RadDave]

Speakers on the Macbook Air never been amazing, If setting it to pop helps you out, keep it that way.
Unless your audio sounds really distorted everything is fine

@ Dynamite - agree w/ the above, i.e. you are never going to get great sound from the speakers of a MacBook Air - see the image below from an iFixit Guide showing the puny size of the two speakers - this is a 13" laptop (not sure if you have that one or the smaller 11"?) - if this is a 'new' machine w/ an Apple warranty, then you could take it in for an assessment at the Genius Bar, where the sound can be compared w/ another similar machine.

But, if you want 'good' music coming out of that laptop, then consider obtaining some small stereo speakers that are portable - cabled ones w/ the headphone jack would be one option or if you want to go 'wireless' (my preference), then there are plenty of BT (Bluetooth) speakers of various sizes and costs - I carry the stereo speaker below on all of my trips to play music from my iPad - good luck. Dave
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[dynamite]

@RadDave Thanks a bunch for your reply. Yes, this is a new 13" one. I think I can live with internal speakers and mess around with equalizer settings.