I thought I didn't hear crackling with Airpods Pro... I was wrong. It's just less noticeable, but it's there 
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New 16" Speakers Popping
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same... seems like the issue got even worseI thought I didn't hear crackling with Airpods Pro... I was wrong. It's just less noticeable, but it's there
it's bit ridiculous not being able to play sounds properly on the £1899 machine... I can workaround this while I do my regular work by playing music from other devices (just slightly annoying as need to reconnect my airpods each time I need to hop on the call), however Im also into field recordings, and the crackling issue takes away all the joy of editing them...
I've read somewhere in this thread that there was a similar issue with one of the older models, did it get fix eventually? My gut feeling is that Apple will just release updated models and ignore the 2021 like it never hapend. And most of us will probably upgrade at some point... Hope I'm wrong here and will get positively surprised.
For those like me who would like to avoid to upgrade to Monterey (I have an hackintosh and the same issues as everybody), I just read that there is an 11.6.8 Beta RC that arrived two days ago... I hope Apple applied the same fixes that on 12.5. If anyone using Big Sur could try it I'd appreciate that... thanks
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same... seems like the issue got even worse
it's bit ridiculous not being able to play sounds properly on the £1899 machine... I can workaround this while I do my regular work by playing music from other devices (just slightly annoying as need to reconnect my airpods each time I need to hop on the call), however Im also into field recordings, and the crackling issue takes away all the joy of editing them...
I've read somewhere in this thread that there was a similar issue with one of the older models, did it get fix eventually? My gut feeling is that Apple will just release updated models and ignore the 2021 like it never hapend. And most of us will probably upgrade at some point... Hope I'm wrong here and will get positively surprised.
As DougieB said :
@Badsheep I wish that's true but with posts like https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-16-speakers-popping.2321514/post-31221674I'm not that sure, unfortunately.
Are you referring to this post?:
It's still an improvement though. And a sign that Apple actively does something against this issue, so it's not as hopeless as it seemed half a year ago.
For me, the 12.5 public beta solved the issue as of this day, but sure, this might change and I'm observing that. I still wonder how the release candidate for 12.5 performs, but I guess we'll find out in a week.
Perhaps, to me it looks like the issue is bit random and acting unexpected as i.e. users reporting Boom 3D solution to work for some period of time and then having the regression or as @JohnyWalker and me spotted - the crackling become noticable on the AirPods Pro as well where the general consensus was that it's not there.
So basically Im being bit sceptical about the 12.5 atm. I'm looking forward to this and really hope you're being right but I'd rather wait with the celebration until more of us confirm it's fixed and avoid any disappointments.
Fingers crossed though, I like the MBP 14" and would love to fully enjoy using it!
I literally can't listen to anything at the moment without crackling every few seconds. The longest I seem to to be able to go is 1 minute. It's insanely bad right now :'(
There's two things you can do right now:
1. Update your system to the 12.5 public beta: https://www.macworld.com/article/35...-public-beta-install-access-utility-macs.html (long lasting solution)
2. Do these steps (works only temporarily):
that was happening to me yesterday and on the day before, today my MBP is back to popping on "normal" frequency. Didn't do nothing to change it, no restart etc.
Im starting to believe it may be Steve Jobs himself trying to channel a message to us from the other side. Instead of trying to mute him, perhaps we should focus on decoding the sound...
It does work sometimes but it's ridiculous, I could as well close my laptop at this point because my regular work flow requires apps which builds up to over 14GB of RAM...
Does the 12.5 beta fix it? Do you have to also do step 2 after upgrading to the beta?
It fixed it for me for about a day then back to usual.
Yep. When my older non M1 Mac can still play music without popping while working with a heavy work flow past 14GB of RAM, something is wrong.
Sorry to hear it is happening again for you.
I haven't had it at all since updating to 12.5 more than two weeks ago, with extensive usage of the speakers daily (Apple Music).
Prior to the update it was happening multiple times a day; often quite frequently.
I'm still on 12.4. Boom seemed to help for 3-4 days, but it's as bad as ever now.
For other reasons, I am upgrading from a 14" M1 Pro 16 GB to a 14" M1 Max 32 GB. I'll be curious to see if the additional memory helps.
For other reasons, I am upgrading from a 14" M1 Pro 16 GB to a 14" M1 Max 32 GB. I'll be curious to see if the additional memory helps.
i dont think it has anything to do with RAM, got the issue with less than 10GB used out of 16GB. I am no expert by any means, but my guess is that CPU cores are not activating fast enough. Also interesting to see how warm the 16" gets while only listening to music.
But have they fixed it if we still have to use Boom? Have you tried it without Boom?
I have, and they did. I still use Boom since I bought the software already, and it's nice to have an equalizer since this damn OS doesn't have one by default when Windows and Linux does. (That still baffles me that the audio professional platform doesn't have a sound equalizer built in.)