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Hey people! My iMac has an audio issue. Built-in speakers only work when the headphones are half way in, if I plug them all the way headphones only work in one side and I hear something like interference I guess. And if I don’t plug them at all (headphones) built-in speakers disappear from my mac and Digital Audio shows up as the only output option. Not long ago I changed my HDD for a SSD and upgraded the RAM, that’s the only “weird” thing that happened recently with my machine. Besides the audio, everything else is better than before really. It’s an iMac 21.5-Inch “Core i5” 2.9 (Late 2013) I obviously have no warranty of any kind anymore. If you have any idea of what I could do, if there’s anything at all, I’d really appreciate your help. Thanks! ——- UPDATE: Picture added
Seems to me like you may have a connector that is not seated fully, a damaged wire/audio connector, or an audio circuit issue. I know from experience that the connectors Apple uses for speakers can break pretty easy.
