New 21 inch iMac with mic white noise

Internal mic creates white noise when speaking on Face Time, Skype, or iChat. It is resolved if I plug in my iPhone headphones. I tried a PRAM reset and moving the computer location in case there was a problem with grounding, but to no avail.
Any suggestions or is it just a bad mic? I ordered the computer day 1 it was released this last month, maybe that was the problem.

Go to /Applications/Utilities and run Audio MIDI Setup. Toggle outputs and then try again.
If still no joy, tote that new bad boy into the nearest Apple Store and have them offer and opinion - if that's not an option, get on the phone to Apple...let them FT w/you and see what they think.
Good luck in any case.

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Just got back from Apple retail store in Brent Cross near London in the UK with my new 24 inch iMac.
All I can say is BRILLIANT!!. What a stunning machine. I had a 20 inch that I bought just 3 weeks back, but I managed to get rid of it to buy this new one.
Now that I have it on my desk at home I can really appreciate the extra 4 inches, it seems like a lot more than that.
As the Apple retail store is a 1-hour drive for me I insisted on taking it out of the box and booting it up in the store to check it out before the drive home. It was just as well that I did as there was a single stuck (black) pixel in bottom right hand corner. This would not bother most people, but I do a lot of Photoshop work and I can only imagine that I would be constantly trying to airbrush a speck out of a picture, only to discover that it was a stuck/dead pixel.
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Even the staff at the Apple retail store were standing around me in absolute awe as I was checking mine out and filling in my personal details, as they did not have a demo unit on display at this time.
Other people were standing around too, a little crowd gathered; I felt like an Apple God for a moment there
The edges are not dark like somebody else mentioned, mine is nice and bright edge-to-edge. In fact is is brighter than my old (3 week old) iMac 20 inch as I have to reduce the brightness on this new 24 inch monster a little bit more to get a nice brightness that I'm used too.
I put in an extra 2 Gig of ram (2 x 1 GB sticks from my old 3-week old iMac 20 inch model), but bought the standard 24 inch model with standard graphics card. Didn't see the point in better graphics card as I don't do gaming, just inDesign and Photoshop on this machine.
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I doubt any of you guys will take delivery of one with a dead/stuck pixel, this is very rare as Apple only use grade-A LCD panels that have a high quality-control-production-line.
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I had 20 inch and spend a lot of time laying out an A4 magazine in Adobe InDesign. I thought my 20 inch Intel Imac was great until I got the 24. Now I can have a full two-page spread across the screen zoomed in 25% bigger than actual size and still have room for my pallets down the left and right hand side. With my old 20 inch iMac I had to collapse or hide certain pallets away or they were over the top of my page on the top/right hand side, which was a pain.
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Hello Mode_Fan,
It looks like you got it right.
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Hi Etrecheck - thanks for your help. I've run th software - here are the results:
Hardware Information:
          iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
          iMac - model: iMac14,2
          1 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores
          32 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M - VRAM: 4096 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:0:48
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 120.99 GB
                    Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 134.2 MB
          APPLE HDD ST3000DM001 disk1 : (3 TB)
                    EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 3 TB
                    Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Samsung D3 Station 3 TB
                    EFI (disk3s1) <not mounted>: 314.6 MB
                    Time Machine work (disk3s2) /Volumes/Time Machine work: 1.5 TB (1.31 TB free)
                    USB backup work (disk3s3) /Volumes/USB backup work: 1.5 TB (1.31 TB free)
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
                    Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded]          com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded]          com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
          [loaded]          com.bombich.ccc.plist
          [loaded]          com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.0137470A-653C-4703-92D6-3C629E2D7439.plist
          [loaded]          com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded]          com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded]          com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded]          com.bombich.ccc-user-agent.plist
          [loaded]          com.google.keystone.agent.plist
User Login Items:
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          Dropbox
          BetterSnapTool
          Caffeine
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player
Internet Plug-ins::
          AdobeExManDetect: Version: AdobeExManDetect 1.1.0.0 - SDK 10.7
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          Flash Player: Version: 11.9.900.170 - SDK 10.6
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.0
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Outdated! Update
Bad Fonts:
          None
Old applications:
          SA Color Finesse 3 UI:          Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5
                    /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app
Time Machine:
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
          Destinations:
                    Time Machine work [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 1
                    Total number of backups: 10
                    Oldest backup: 2013-12-17 13:21:54 +0000
                    Last backup: 2013-12-19 16:20:21 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 1 > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               1%          WindowServer
               1%          EtreCheck
               0%          mds
               0%          mds_stores
               0%          hidd
Top Processes by Memory:
          66 MB          Dropbox
          66 MB          mds_stores
          66 MB          Dock
          33 MB          Finder
          33 MB          ocspd
Virtual Memory Statistics:
          28.89 GB          Free RAM
          1.51 GB          Active RAM
          146 MB          Inactive RAM
          1.46 GB          Wired RAM
          272 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

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Strange. Try doing a couple of basic resets: First is restart the computer in Safe Mode, this will clear the caches. If no luck there try both a SMC and PRAM resets. The SMC is OK to try several times.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
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