[Jazzjackrabbit86]

About a month ago, I had the most dreadful problem with my Mac Mini. When I started it, the boot sound was VERY loud and distorted. After it started, every sound was equally distorted - from notification sounds to iTunes music. It even happened when I plugged in speakers or headphones (that both worked fine with my iPod). I tried restarting, playing with the iTunes equalizer (and then shutting the equalizer back off), and then I just took it to the Apple Store and they replaced the logic board and it seemed to be fine.

Well today, I woke my Mini up from sleep and I'm having the same issue. I tried resetting the PRAM this time and I seem to have no luck. Everything else is the same: tried headphones, restarted, played with the equalizer. I'd really like some suggestions before I take it back to the Apple Store again.

I can't really imagine that it was really the logic board in the first place because everything worked fine except audio. At any rate, it's kind of a big deal because now I can't play any games (I FINALLY got the Sims for Mac) or watch movies or listen to music...which kind of covers 90% of my usage on that machine.

Any ideas?

[OB1]

I had a very similar problem to this on my iMac G5 2Ghz. Tried the usual stuff, repaired prefs, restart, trashed any/all sound related prefs i could find... Nothing worked.

However, I use Soundtrack Pro to edit audio, just starting that app seems to fix all my audio problems. I have no idea why.

The only thing I have recently changed is allowing Software Update to install something to do with audio apps (can't remember exactly what it said now...) but, all was well before that.