Your Plantronics .audio85 (USB mic headset) not working properly in 10.5.2?

I am having the same problem with a Logitech USB Pro headset.

I have problems where video or audio will stutter occasionally.

This only happened when upgrading to 10.5.2.

Also, I have had a Kernel panic caused by the faulty USB Audio driver in OSX 10.5.2. C'mon apple please fix this.

yep, totally broken.

My USB plantronics worked fine in 10.4 and 10.5 until 10.5.2. After using it it works for a few minutes then i hear this weird sound. Audio playback in most programs makes really weird noises and cuts out or a moment then comes back. The Microphone is worse, if i use it in Garageband it totall hoses and never starts working right in any program unless i relaunch garageband (somehow resets it?) or unplug and replug in the headset. Its extremely annoying altogether though when trying ot use voice chat and having to unplug and replug in your USB headset every 3 minutes so you can keep talking and not have the audio input all garbled where no one can understand you. The problem happened the moment I installed 10.5.2, and continues. I think they borked something with some headset drivers, not sure.

I wouldnt count on it....

there was some major OpenGL problems on the MBP 8600s that affected quite a few programs, and it took them 6 months (or more) to finally update the drivers to fix it.

I like Apple for many things, but they are not fast in fixing problems that they deem "minor"

well I unplugged all my extra USB things and it was still messing up. I plugged in the USB headset to the USB port right by the power plug on my MBP and its been working for a long time now with little issue. I head a little weird thing sometimes, for a milisecond, like it might of paused, but it doesnt mess anthing up, and the Mic keeps working ok. thats really strange it would work right in one USB port and not the other just from an OS update.

yes i am upset as well.. i have a Logitech USB Headset/a-0374a that worked fine with 10.5.1 as a matter of fact its only a week old. once i updated it get static and dropped connection.

also i have an Elgato Turbo .264 and it is also malfunctioning.. looks like it is something with the USB Driver Settings or something to that degree. the elgato is only going 5 - 7 frames per second when it use to goto 80 -83 FPS. they need to get this fixed ASAP.

on the bright side growl actually works im glad about that.. but i need my mic to work for podcasting.

one more thing i like to add is the the iphone syncs slower than before also.. i just restored it and it is going like i am over USB 1.0 on my powermac G4 **shakes Head** comeon Apple! You KILLING me here!

many hours of use and everything still working ok as long as the USB headset is plugged into the USb port by my power connector. Moving back to the other one still messes up things within 5 to 10 minutes.... strange...

running an USB hub off the "broken" one just fine though with an external "time machine" drive hooked to it, as well as my Ipod and an EyeTV... working fine in that port. Maybe they headset would work from that port through a powered hub as well? not sure i feel like testing any of that since its all working for now.

I too have the same problem with a Logitech webcam on my Macbook Pro. The audio records properly for the first few seconds, and then things start to get garbled. This has not been a problem thus far (10.4.x--10.5.1).

In fact, things got substantially worse some time back when I kept getting kernel panics (with USB errors) when I plugged in my webcam into the computer. Strange.

Here is a sample: http://emphaticallystatic.org/media/mic-test.mp3

I thought I was going crazy. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. Can anyone confirm if this issue goes away when using the other USB port located by the magsafe for Macbook Pros?

Surprisingly, it does for me! (I've tried for about a couple of hours now and it is still working.)

Apple released a fix for this issue in GarageBand. I am posting to confirm that it fixes the issue entirely for me. Thank you Apple!

I have been having a similar problem with this headset and my Macbook Pro. It seems to get better when I'm using my laptop on battery, or when I have a USB hub attached to the other port of my computer. Unfortunately, this problem has couses my new copy of MacSpeech Dictate tobe unusable.
The microphone basically produces a noise sound like a buzz, which causes as MacSpeech Dictate to miss understand what I'm dictating.
I hope either MacSpeech or Apple will fix this problem as soon as possible.

One of the REASONS I bought my Macbook Pro was to do audio recording... and now I can't record any audio through a mic!

I get the same "digitized static" as in the sample recording above.

Someone mentioned "there's a fix"... but WHERE is this fix? 'Cause it sure hasn't fixed MY computer.

Now I am getting Kernel Panics when using MacSpeech Dictate. It seems they are caused by some kind of fault with the audio usb driver for my Plantronics .85 Audio headset.
Tue Apr 22 01:12:04 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x004209d5, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0000000c, CR3: 0x00fd5000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x03cd3540, ECX: 0x04898998, EDX: 0x40e6fb8c
CR2: 0x0000000c, EBP: 0x40e6fb08, ESI: 0x03cd3548, EDI: 0x03cd3550
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x004209d5, CS: 0x00000004, DS: 0x039e000c
Error code: 0x00000002

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x40e6f938 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x40e6f96c 0x133230 0x0)
0x40e6f988 : 0x1a8c8a (0x461720 0x4209d5 0xe 0x460ed0)
0x40e6fa68 : 0x19ece5 (0x40e6fa88 0x1416ac 0x0 0x3ea7d9)
0x40e6fa80 : 0x4209d5 (0xe 0x1dc30048 0xc 0xc)
0x40e6fb08 : 0x42028d (0x3cd3540 0x40e6fb8c 0x0 0x0)
0x40e6fb58 : 0x420c0e (0x3ccbc00 0x420978 0x40e6fb8c 0x0)
0x40e6fba8 : 0x6055d9 (0x3cd3540 0x0 0x40e6fc08 0x615b08)
0x40e6fc08 : 0x609a11 (0x3b7e000 0x4147780 0xf1d21 0x0)
0x40e6fc68 : 0x831bde (0x4219cc0 0x4147780 0xf1d21 0x0)
0x40e6fcd8 : 0x831ddd (0x4244c00 0x2 0x1 0x26)
0x40e6fcf8 : 0x832056 (0x4244c00 0x26 0x3fb9cc0 0x8649d6)
0x40e6fd38 : 0x832156 (0x4244c00 0x66 0x0 0x3fb9cc0)
0x40e6fd88 : 0x81ae64 (0x4244c00 0x34207000 0x341df010 0x2d5)
0x40e6fdf8 : 0x816c9f (0x434df00 0x55e0188 0x2d5 0x3ea740)
0x40e6fe68 : 0x816169 (0x4808200 0x2d5 0x419e700 0x510f9d8)
0x40e6fea8 : 0x43c47e (0x4808200 0x2d5 0x418 0x1)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio(2.5.4b4)@0x823000->0x849fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x80c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x5ff000
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x80c000->0x822fff
dependency: com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib(1.1)@0x809000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x5ff000->0x626fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: MacSpeech Dictat

Mac OS version:
9C7010

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro1,1 (Mac-F425BEC8)