Crackling / Popping on 14" MacBook Pro

[BGPL]

I'm getting a crackling/popping sound coming through my external speakers (connected via headphone port on MacBook), it started on migration assistant and is still happening on startup and at other random times. Anyone else experiencing this? I changed out cables and I get the same behavior.

I have the base model 14" MBP.

 

[bdawwg]

I'm getting this too on the onboard speakers...couple times during a movie, 3 times in 5 minutes playing SNES games

 

[zarathu]

I remember this happening about 10 years ago on another one. I cannot remember what we did to fix it. it was a software approach.

 

[Sammy in SoCal]

Good luck on your 3000$ machine. Tim added some Rice Krispies to your speakers. No biggie

 

[Jacob Roy]

Same thing with mine. There's a cracking/popping sound while listening to music on Apple Music on the onboard speakers.

A restart usually fixes the problems for a few days/weeks.

 

[marinersaptcomplex]

There was known issues with the Apple TV app and the built in speakers. It was software based and fixed. I would assume most sound issues, unless they are consistent across the system are also software based. Please report it to Apple, they followed up with me about the Apple TV issue and it was fixed in the next update, so do they listen. Espc. if you are in the dev program.

 

[Kafka]

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[bootz]

Getting this using Apple Music only a few notches above mid-level volume on MBP M1 Pro 14.

 

[badlydrawnboy]

Did anyone figure out how to fix this? I'm having the same issue. I've reset NVRAM and also killed "coreaudioID". Both seemed to help temporarily, but only for a short time.

 

[siradaninsan]

Solution?

 

[ctjack]

I remember this happening about 10 years ago on another one. I cannot remember what we did to fix it. it was a software approach.

I remember having it 10 years ago with my dell laptop.
Cracking sound was coming from CPU interfering with the sound device when used more than 10-15%. I solved it by removing the audio driver of the Dell/sound chip and using the standard motherboard drivers.
Downside is the sound quality became flat and bad.
Not sure how it could be handled on Macs, but people report the same issue with CPU.

Personally i have no cracking sound on my 14 pro base for reference.