Cracking sound on bluetooth headphone connected to Catlina os 10.15

Does anyone facing cracking sound or any kind of inference after connecting you MBP to any of bluetooth headphones?

After connected when i play a new song in youtube it starts with huge crack/disturbance kind of noise and it continuous..

I thought my bluetooth device has some issues, but it works normally on other devices.


I tried reset my bluetooth driver and restart my system, still facing the same issues.

Posted on Oct 12, 2019 10:07 PM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2019 11:27 AM

I had exactly the same problem with my Sony WH-CH500 headphones and I found a partial solution. I used Bluetooth Explorer app and turned off aptX codec.


Now my headphones operate on SBC codec and everything seems to be fine. I'm not experiencing this loud, annoying and cracking sound anymore.


You need to turn off Bluetooth at first. Run Bluetooth Explorer, go to Tools, then Audio options and click Disable aptX. Close the program, turn on Bluetooth and reconnect headphones.


I hope my solution will be helpful.

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