Seems like it’s triggered by lower bass sounds. On the 3rd or 4th day of using it, the left speaker started making a distorted blown speaker sound. I just bought a customized MacBook Pro 16in M1 MAX.

That is, at least one of the MacBook speakers is permanently distorting, crackling or buzzing for all use cases.ĭistorted speaker on brand new M1 MAX and not sure how to go about getting it fixed. In some cases the speaker audio issue can occur in a general way. MacBook speaker audio distortion after macOS 12 update The audio from the speakers is reportedly distorting, crackling or buzzing in some usage scenarios ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).

However, some MacBook users are facing an audio speaker issue after macOS 12 update. In the last few years the company has even released some MacBooks with self-developed chipsets. Then they get off their ***** and fix things, because one thing apple cannot stand is public humiliation.MacBook is Apple’s line of products made up of laptops powered by macOS. The engineer who worked on the chip is probably gone by now, and Apple doesn't fix problems unless thousands make a stink. It's a software error in the code that runs the low level chip. Noise hurts your ear, and i didn't buy fancy Gelelec Studio Monitors to hear crackling!Īll the superstition about setting the time automatically doesn't sound plausible to me. So obnoxious of an error for those of us who can still hear. It staggers my mind that Apple has had this bug since 2018 probably, and they just don't care enough to fix it. So it is a bug in the firmware for the custom apple audio chip which is in every MacMini and Laptop (they use the same custom Apple chips). Killing the coreaudio process, which auto respawns almost immediately clears the problem. The crackling stops when the audio stream stops, after a few second delay, when the audio unit goes to sleep (to save power). So this means that the noise is after the audio amplifier in the chain. The crackles are fixed in volume and don't go up as you increase the volume. You can tell it is a firmware problem in the Apple audio unit, because if you play music very softly you will hear the crackles.

I have a MacMini 2018, and am running 10.14.6.

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