I feel I can shed some light on this as an owner of several 2021 16' models (of which all of them experience this crackling noise) as well as having a background in Audio engineering. Sorry to hear you're experiencing issues with you new Mac.

I think that in the end only an update can solve the, but in the meantime every help is appreciated. I'm pretty disappointed that a 3400€ machine has such a problem, that hasn't been resolved in months judging from the feedbacks of the other users.Īlso, if anyone has suggestions or something to add, please tell me. I hope this can help Apple fixing this bug. I also tried killing the 'coreaudiod' process, tried changing the Hz from the Midi-audio app, but it didn't solve anything.Īt this point I think the problem is the combination of music and system sounds. However, if a system sound comes on when I'm not listening to music, there's no problem. I also tried muting system sounds, but the 'pop' is there, even if the sound isn't actually coming out of the speakers. This happens both with notifications and system sounds, and when I'm listening through my earphones everything is fine. Shortly, if I'm listening to music and a sound effect comes on, the speakers make a single crackling sound, like a 'pop' or something. However, I have found nothing that describes my situation.

I have already read a lot of posts online of people complaining their speakers had bad crackling problems. Crackling sound, but only when a sound effect comes on while music is playing Hi, I've bought less than a week ago a 15' Macbook Pro, everything is fine except for the speakers.

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