Crackling noise from right speaker on MacBook Pro after macOS 15.4.1 update

Software does not cause hardware problems. They may be coincidental, but there are other causes.

I have found in certain environments that static electricity build up is very common on MacBook cases, especially if the ground plug (third prong) is not used on the power adapter connected to the computer. Apple sells a separate ground plug cable to fit in the brick that can help with that.

The speakers act a bit like magnets, and metalic dust will cause audio anomalies like that.

Check your Audio Midi Setup utility which can get reset by updates to a frequency higher than you normally need for audio is 16 bit audio. Anything higher when you aren't doing more than stereo sound is too much.

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echos what I just said!

"Software does not cause hardware problems. "

You should know that's the most ignorant thing i've read on this forum so far.

I've had my eeprom burn out in a thinkpad because of a conky plugin back when i was running debian core.

it's seriously best not to reply, if you are just going to gaslight other users.

The crackles in audio are most certainly software issues. 15.4 after installation, now crackles on my system.

ever since timmy took over and decided to axiize profit, and ditch all quality, it's as if the developers are literally just ruining what was once the most wonderful Operating System on Earth, The Big Cats of OS X. Back when Serious Musicians used OS X, because of course, it "just works", and the CoreAudio subsystem was magnificent.

Now it's full of hiccups, and just recently the crackles.

I'm certain it's due to the unbelievable amount of surveillance services, and completely unneeded junk that keeps being jammed into our systems. Why do they not just provide the security fixes, and leave out the stuff that makes me wish for two more holes in my head, i will someday find out, as for now I believe it's a form of accelerated obsolescence, as i know this is indeed all pre-planned. I mean really, how can they simply not fix finder? a simple search shows everything: macos finder corrupted. I've tried all the fixservices no doubt.es, none work. it's the ********* shitte in all over itself.

anyway, please dont reply here anymore, as it's like reading, You were invited to view some new crayola artwork on display, starting today, in your living room. and it's not even your kid.

I'm trying to figure out if there is any audio settings in defaults, that my be bl to fix this, as something with 15.4+ overhead must be to blame, unneeded services no doubt. they are putting, all their AI framework, on systems that can't use it as well. what's up with that? I have true love of AI, and i dont need what i dont install myself.

As someone who fixes computers for 29 years, I can say this stetement of yours: "eeprom burn out in a thinkpad because of a conky plugin back when i was running debian core" is not an argument that says software causes a hardware problem. ROM chips may fail simply because they lack the capacity or the cooling to handle a request in question. It is poor hardware design in this case that caused the problem, and the expectation of the user to be able to overburden their computer with functionality it was not designed to handle. My parents would invariably tell me don't make your computer into a jalopy. Ultimately this was user error in expectation that the hardware could handle the usage. The software was written for specific hardware, and most well written software indicates what hardware it is designed for. Hardware can overheat through over use. But ultimately it isn't the software that caused the problem, it is the poor design of the hardware to allow commands that would trigger overheating, or the aging of the hardware so it couldn't be used as well as it would when it was new.

Until we have room temperature superconductors users need to be mindful of the capacity of the computer.