Some 2018 MacBook Pro Owners Experiencing Crackling Speakers

[StellarVixen]

If you knew a thing about software development, or the herculean effort required to develop and maintain a fast-moving operating system like macOS, you'd know how impossible it is to make it bug-free.

If you cannot create a perfection, then do not price it like it is.


And, that argument is not 100% valid, because macOS have became severely restrictive and limited OS in the past several years. In such limited and closed OS, you would expect to have a greater control over anything that can go wrong.

If you think maintaining the macOS is hard(which is), then what shall we say about the Windows?

 

[Mr. Dee]

Anybody here, seen my old friend Jony, can you tell me where he's gone?

 

[Guda.FL]

It's not crackling, it just had some Taco Bell for dinner last night.

I was about to write something noteworthy about mine doing something similar, but this comment side railed me and all I can do is laugh.

 

[MattMJB0188]

LMAO!!! You all are having these sound issues and I'm rocking my 2015 MBP with the best design ever. Have fun.

 

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

only crackling I wanna hear throughout is me eating chips while watching porn

That must be some really boring porn, then...

 

[kaneda]

It (_*_)<3

 

[felixroqu3]

Finally, an issue that's wide-spread that hasn't affected me (yet). !!! this is so exciting.

Exciting? So **** me and my MacBook Pro, eh?

 

[LovingTeddy]

There's not 1 single product without "issues", nothing is 100%...NOTHING.

Apparently there is. My Acer laptop just runs and runs. No problem.

 

[martyjmclean]

It's happening randomly at certain frequencies. Mostly appears in volume controls.

Don't test with this song because it crackles like **** on any sound system since the 90s ;D

That's because there's vinyl "crackle" and "pop" effects in the song. Doesn't take a genius to work that one out.

 

[TroyBoy30]

This kinda stuff happens when you buy a computer from a phone company

 

[The Main Event]

This kinda stuff happens when you buy a computer from a phone company

Apple started off as a phone company?

 

[ColdSugar]

It's like---here we go again. I haven't had any problems myself, although perhaps I just jinxed it.
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Yeah, that's got to be within a software update.

I could understand the need for multiple software updates if this were a new design or something, but this is the third iteration of this product. You'd think they had it licked by now.

 

[Williesleg]

Hee hee, that's Timmy Cook cackling, he can't believe he shipped another laptop with a crap keyboard!

 

[DeepIn2U]

Hehe... MBP couldn’t handle those sick beats

Iv'e notice this last small volumes (watching you tube videos, thought it was just this.
does not occur with iTunes but I have iTunes in it's own space and launching upon logon.
Oddly enough this does NOT happen with any content connected to my Apple AV USB-C adapter connected to HDMI and my TV.

Grrrr.

 

[4jasontv]

Apple started off as a phone company?

If you missed that than the comment wasn’t for you.

 

[majestice]

This issue also exists with iMac Pro... and it isn't really "crackling speakers" since the problem occurs both on internal and external speakers. It is therefore sound chip problem, most likely with T2. Apple has now had quite a long time to fix it but it hasn't

 

[groovyd]

every year i say i'll wait until their new idea shakes out before hitting buy, and every year it is replaced by something else that needs shaking.

 

[cbautis2]

Iv'e notice this last small volumes (watching you tube videos, thought it was just this.
does not occur with iTunes but I have iTunes in it's own space and launching upon logon.
Oddly enough this does NOT happen with any content connected to my Apple AV USB-C adapter connected to HDMI and my TV.

Grrrr.

The T2 chip handles the DAC audio portion. When you connect an external device through HDMI, the T2 DAC portion is bypassed and the stream is sent as digital audio (PCM or Dolby Digital) to your TV which your TV converts it to analog then amplifies that analog audio to its speakers.
[doublepost=1533775602][/doublepost]Temporary fix IMO is to buy an external USB DAC and send all your audio to that device. Crackling gone until software update

 

[DeepIn2U]

every year i say i'll wait until their new idea shakes out before hitting buy, and every year it is replaced by something else that needs shaking.

I honk it’s Apple’s product QA employees hat need some shaking!

 

[ScratchSF]

This feels like something that can be solved via software. In two of the videos, the sound was every 10 seconds. In another, they were every five seconds. Perhaps it’s related to a buffer (or something that repeats in the OS) that pulls in a certain amount of data and happens to reload X seconds increments of data at a time.

 

[WardC]

I had this same audio crackling issue with my new iMac Pro, it would happen on anything...YouTube, iTunes, Internet Radio, etc. I just updated to 10.14 Mojave and the problem seems resolved now. No more crackling! It only really happened under 10.13.6 -- I noticed the problem was not present on my old 2011 iMac. It is a distortion of the audio and it's very annoying. My only recommendation is to update to 10.14 -- nothing else I tried seemed to work!

EDIT: The problem seems tied to the audio feedback volume indicator But toggling it, running it on and off, etc only seems to briefly alleviate the problem. You will notice if you adjust the volume while it is crackling (with the volume feedback indicator turned on), the cracking will go away.

Solution: Update to Mac OS 10.14 Mojave!

 

[dantroline]

This kinda stuff happens when you buy a computer from a TOY company

Fixed that for you.

 

[Dorje Sylas]

Sounds like it's another Gate : Cracklegate

I think we're past gating everything. And we can just move to putting mediocre quality assumption stamp on Apple goods. Which means the $100 to $1000+ markup for the "Apple Tax" is getting quite degraded.

 

[Guy Clark]

Sure, because Apple does that in any of their products. /s

If testing and quality control were as it should be such things would not occur. Apple are in too much of a hurry to rush things out of Foxconn without thorough QC. First the keyboard now this its hilarious

 

[Goaliegeek]

It’s just gassy