After the latest Catalina 10.15.7 Update my Mac Book Pro 2012, has cracking issue with my audio (software issue, definitely not hardware), does this issue is made by purpose to force me to buy new machine?

After the latest Catalina 10.15.7 Update my Mac Book Pro 2012, with I5 processor has cracking issue with my audio (software issue, definatly not hardware), does this issue is made by purpose to force me to buy new machine?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 28, 2023 11:59 AM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2023 5:50 AM

Coincidence is not causation. I suspect most of the crackling/bad audio stuff you have seen on the net is related to Macs that have the T2 chip or Apple Silicon. That's when Apple mreged audio processing (the DAC) onto the system chip instead of being a discrete chip and that's when all the complaints started. Your 2012 (Intel, non T2) MBP isn't one of those.


If audio from your external card is fine, that would actually suggest a hardware issue in your MBP. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7 or a number of different Macs and none of them have audio issues, internal or external. The macOS software/APIs for audio are the same regardless of whether the audio is internal or external.


I suggest more diagnostics are in order. Try running Apple Diagnostics. It may also help if you download & run Etrecheck and post the report here. (No personal info is revealed).

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Sep 29, 2023 5:50 AM in response to Boban Trpevski

Coincidence is not causation. I suspect most of the crackling/bad audio stuff you have seen on the net is related to Macs that have the T2 chip or Apple Silicon. That's when Apple mreged audio processing (the DAC) onto the system chip instead of being a discrete chip and that's when all the complaints started. Your 2012 (Intel, non T2) MBP isn't one of those.


If audio from your external card is fine, that would actually suggest a hardware issue in your MBP. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7 or a number of different Macs and none of them have audio issues, internal or external. The macOS software/APIs for audio are the same regardless of whether the audio is internal or external.


I suggest more diagnostics are in order. Try running Apple Diagnostics. It may also help if you download & run Etrecheck and post the report here. (No personal info is revealed).

Sep 28, 2023 11:04 PM in response to ku4hx

😜 than go ahead, look on the net, made research as I did, and you'll see that there are huge number of users with the same issue. And please note that my laptop is in perfect healthy condition, with no signs of use, and the issue appear just like that, before update everything was perfect, and just after update, crucky sound on system itself, I've test it with external card (NI Traktor DJ 6) and the sound is OK, so please instead of giving me such "intelegent" answer, prepare yourself and make it right this time

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