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HoreaG

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Dec 18, 2022
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How comes the speakers in all of my MBP are going? The 13" 2009 I got with the speakers already shot. My first MBP 2012 13" gave up half a year earlier, the second one a weak later. The 2012 15" rMBP came without prolbems (all my hardware is sh) and after a month one of the speakers is shot. The 2014 15" rMBP just got its left speaker ****ed.
In all of them it is the foam that holds the central membrane to the chassis of the speaker.
With no other brand did this happen to me. The ********* HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus laptops never developed such a fault, but when inspecting them I discovered none of them uses foam in the speakers. Wtf Apple, why put in the top of the product line foam? It clearly will dissintegrate (sure, long after the guarantee period) and what advantage did it have?

Did anybody work out a solution? Replacement parts will be of the same age, I can not hope they will last for a reasonably long time. The best would be to replace striclty the speaker, not the entire assembly, with some speakers that will fit but are built without foam.
 
Wtf Apple, why put in the top of the product line foam?
Well, there must be a reason why the apple speakers mostly sounded way better than comparable competition models at their time... there is your advantage :D
the only speakers that had this problem on me were in the 2015 13 inch I've bought used, original spare parts were a bit hard to source and bit pricey. I never blew the speakers of a MacBook by myself.
the oldest I have is a 2011 13 inch, and they sound as good as new, no sign of disintegration.
 
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