My MacBook Pro speakers are not fully working.

The speakers work, but not fully. The sound seems very far away, like they are only partially working. They go in and out of fully working and then suddenly they will switch to sounding far off. The headphone jack works just fine.
Help! The computer was bought in 2011 and the internal systems were replaced in 2012 from water damage and the hard drive was replaced last spring.

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