External speakers only play form left side :(

I have some Bose Companion 3 speakers on my Al 24" iMac and sometimes they only play out the left side. But if I unplug and plug in the speaker jack (on the mac) it works fine again. Any fix?

so the sound plays through the internal speakers instead of the external speakers? what OS are you using?
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