I haven't experienced any issues with my machine, and I listen to music and videos on iTunes/YouTube quite a lot, through both internal speakers and headphones.
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MacBook Pro 2018 - Speakers Crackling
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bet if you changed your setting to 44 100 you will get crackling...
48 000 seems okay then cause you have that as the default
44 100 is not the default on these machines...
why I don't know...but mine was 48 000 default on output and 44 100 input
no issues
44 100 is the/a problem it seems
So further update.
I changed my audio settings to 48k and have been playing Tomb Raider for a good hour and a half and no speaker cracks/pops at all - and the fans have been running, so CPU hot.
Changing it back to 44k and about 15 mins was getting pops and clicks.
Looks like a s/w issue in the 44k mode perhaps?
I changed my audio settings to 48k and have been playing Tomb Raider for a good hour and a half and no speaker cracks/pops at all - and the fans have been running, so CPU hot.
Changing it back to 44k and about 15 mins was getting pops and clicks.
Looks like a s/w issue in the 44k mode perhaps?
After a few hours of youtube, the volume came back. But not without some odd audio fade out effect happening first, for like 30 seconds. I returned the machine.
I have BT headphones, will test.
Got call from support. "Two engineers can't hear the hissing nor crackling". Okay, the crackling is hard because it's easily confused with sound of key being tapped. The hissing sound is clearly audible though.
Gonna give em more video recordings, and even amateur studio microphone recording of this BS.
Engineers haven't made any comment yet on the results of the data capture, apparently.
Got call from support. "Two engineers can't hear the hissing nor crackling". Okay, the crackling is hard because it's easily confused with sound of key being tapped. The hissing sound is clearly audible though.
Gonna give em more video recordings, and even amateur studio microphone recording of this BS.
Engineers haven't made any comment yet on the results of the data capture, apparently.
Kindly inform us about your test result. Hopefully it’s a software issue.
Iam waiting for mine to arrive next Friday
Issues found, in various levels of intensity, and triggered in various ways:
1. Speaker hiss
2. Audio stream muting
3. Audio stream crackling, most often caused by system sounds interfering with the other stream(s)
4. New issue, someone else had it: touchbar just stops responding properly and will drag volume to zero by itself.
Apple have been sent the video.
I tried with BT headphones:
I couldn’t trigger issues 1-3.
So what’s that...software or hardware....
1. Speaker hiss
2. Audio stream muting
3. Audio stream crackling, most often caused by system sounds interfering with the other stream(s)
4. New issue, someone else had it: touchbar just stops responding properly and will drag volume to zero by itself.
Apple have been sent the video.
I tried with BT headphones:
I couldn’t trigger issues 1-3.
So what’s that...software or hardware....
Not sure if this is helpful at all, but I all of a sudden experienced this over the weekend (which worried me given I just dropped ~5K on a new MBP 15 and I'm a music producer).
I read a few forums and followed the recommended approaches and suggestions but at the time it didnt make a difference.
Randomly as it started, of of yesterday it has not had a problem nor recurred. I havent rebooted (
8:40 up 17 days, 14:33, 3 users, load averages: 2.44 2.37 2.26) since I last set it up and so problem has gone away as fast and randomly as it came.
Trying to retrace my activities - only thing I've done is installed new software but none of it (AKAIK) were anything that would touch sound libraries, drivers, config settings. etc.
Interestingly though, and to my relief, I did use an external sound card once the problem started to check that it was limited to something on the internal sound board/controller, and where at the same time the cracking and popping could be heard through internal speakers, nothing of the kind was heard through an external sound card. Doesn't give way to many clues other than its a different driver (ASIO based sound driver) etc.
I read a few forums and followed the recommended approaches and suggestions but at the time it didnt make a difference.
Randomly as it started, of of yesterday it has not had a problem nor recurred. I havent rebooted (
8:40 up 17 days, 14:33, 3 users, load averages: 2.44 2.37 2.26) since I last set it up and so problem has gone away as fast and randomly as it came.
Trying to retrace my activities - only thing I've done is installed new software but none of it (AKAIK) were anything that would touch sound libraries, drivers, config settings. etc.
Interestingly though, and to my relief, I did use an external sound card once the problem started to check that it was limited to something on the internal sound board/controller, and where at the same time the cracking and popping could be heard through internal speakers, nothing of the kind was heard through an external sound card. Doesn't give way to many clues other than its a different driver (ASIO based sound driver) etc.
Lol, get this. So on my MBA2011, I also get the small pop when quickly forcing audio streams (such as when spamming an alert sound over and over very quickly). But it doesn't crackle, when doing volume feedback sounds.
This is a driver chaos, AppleHDA or CoreAudio or w/e it is.
The audio drop issues happens here on hackintosh too it's been happening since El Capitan When Apple changed the USB Drivers.
The Issue: is when I open youtube video from Chrome the video plays but there is no sound, I have to unplug and plug the USB DAC again.
Just another piece of info that I haven't seen shared here before that might be helpful. When the issue occurs on my 2018 MBP (the crackling / skipping audio) I can see that one of my cores maxes out, and stays maxed even when there is no load being put on the computer. I'm using the CPU monitor built into Logic Pro X to see this. I do not have the hissing or background noise issue, just the crackling / skipping audio that requires a reset to fix.
This was happening on both my wired-in headphones and macbook speakers. After about 50-60 minutes of audio playing I would get a static-sounding buzz that would then happen every 10 seconds from then on.
Changing the format from 44,100 to 48,000 Hz in the Audio Midi Setup panel fixed this for me. No more static buzzes.
Sweet holy baby mother, thank you guys so much!!!
Changing the format from 44,100 to 48,000 Hz in the Audio Midi Setup panel fixed this for me. No more static buzzes.
Sweet holy baby mother, thank you guys so much!!!
I only have the problem when i'm in bootcamp while playing games. For example, after 15 minutes of playing in Destiny 2, I get the crackling sounds.
I'm out of the 15 days window so I hope this is software related only.
I'm out of the 15 days window so I hope this is software related only.
I just ordered the Macbook Pro 13 inch 256SSD from best buy I really hope I DONT have this issue
+1 On this issue. Started happening this morning, about five days after I received the machine in the mail. It happens most often when I open a Chrome tab with a YouTube video. The popping persists whether the video is playing or paused, and the popping will stop a few moments after closing the tab (but not immediately).
15" model, i9, 32GB, 1TB, 10.13.6
15" model, i9, 32GB, 1TB, 10.13.6