My MacBook has a clever little feature built into it, one of those ones you don’t really notice until it jumps up in your face. It’s to do with the headphone socket. I use the headphone socket with the jack from my speakers to play music from my MacBook through my external speakers. Now what is clever about the MacBook is that you can have 2 different volumes set: one for the internal speakers and one for anything using the headphone socket. Clever right?

Not when you go from listening to it on external speakers to listening to it on noise cancelling headphones, which is what I did last night and just about blew out my eardrums. I have the volume set for the external speakers at halfway, but when I listen to anything on headphones it only needs one or two bars. So when you put in the headphones, push play and it comes out at 7 or 8, it’s pretty darn loud.

It’s a clever idea the differing volumes but there needs to be a way for it to recognize the difference from headphones and a line going to speakers, which I doubt there is. So until then I shall just have to remember to change it manually, or risk deafness.

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