External speakers refuse to play the start chime :-(

Hello everybody. Here is my very silly problem :
I have connected external speakers to my brand new iMac Intel. All sounds coming from the computer are perfectly transfered to the external speakers, should they come from the system or any application, except only one sound/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png This only one sound that is not played through the external speakers is the iMac start chime It is only played through the internal speakers.
I checked all volumes possible and "sound out" choices in the system preferences, but in vain
Could anyone be able to help me ? Thanks in advance.

It's because the Mac's design considers the internal speakers and external speakers to be different, with different settings; more of the attention-to-detail. Most PCs would simply have a hardware switch to cut off the internal speakers when something is plugged into the audio port, and push the sound to the external speakers, with no change in volume settings. Macs keep separate volume settings for the two outputs.
A lot of people don't want to hear the startup BONG (for whatever reason) when they restart. If they set the internal speaker volume to zero, there is no startup sound, but their external speaker volume is not affected once the Mac starts up. It also makes the startup sound the same consistent pleasant volume (if you DO want to hear it) no matter how high or low the external speaker volume is last set before you shut down.
So what you consider a "pity" is actually an advantage and a useful feature.

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