Audio popping and crackling problems across the board with Mavericks

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Another apple f'up! And I'm yet again a victim! Will will this ******** stop????

We're paying top dollar for piece of **** hardware???? Fix this!!!! You can call it what you want (enhancement/ improvement program) I don't care. Just fix this mess!!!!

Hi Robbennion,

I'm facing the same audio issue as well through my USB headset.

Audio starts out fine, but after 1 - 5 minutes, static and crackles start to creep into the audio and increase until it completely drowns out the audio.

Which update did you apply to solve the issue?

Thanks

I’m sound designer and I’ve the same problem! I'm using Ensemble Apoge audio interface and since I’ve my new macbook pro has become impossible to watch a movie or listen to the end of a song without having sound problems (crackling). I'm having problems with VLC, iTunes and QuikTime 10. Terrible to spend more than $ 3,000 and have the problems that had computers of the eighties. Luckily I do not have these problems with Logic Pro!

I'm hoping for an update that puts in place a high number of problems!!

Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, OS X 10.9 (13A3017)

What update? there i no update that I can see that resolves this issue, it occurs when recordings no matter the buffer size.

Yes, just moved to Mavericks with a Saffire PRO 24 DSP on my Mac Pro 12-core. Sound plays fine in iTunes and Spotify, but after 30 secs or so any file played in Quicktime suddenly deteriorates into rythmic crackling/clicking, as if played through a helicopter. The Saffire says it is sync-locked OK. Any ideas welcome.

OK, if I use QT7, the problem does not occcur - it is only QT 10, so that seems to be the workaround.

It's not a question of wrong recordings or bit rate and of course there are trillions of workarounds. For me it's a a shame buying a 3500$ machine that have this kind of problmems.

Seeing this on Mac Pro under 10.9.2. Was not present on under 10.9.1.

same here, happened after update to 10.9.2

same problem for me here too. audio was fine until the 10.9.2 update. anyone have any fixes? or are we just stuck waiting for yet another update from apple?

Hello, all - not sure if this is an option for any of you, but for those using an external audio device/interface, I found that by being sure the clock source was set to "Mac" as opposed to the device itself helped. Internal Mac resources tend to want to be clocked by the Mac, not an outboard device. So slaving the device to the Mac - not the other way around - can often get timings aligned. And glitches - I have found - are often caused by synch issues.

FYI, you can toggle this option under Applications > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup > Output/Input - "clock source"

Might be a solution for some of you.

I was unable to change the clock source - it's just greyed out, even as an admin.

Anyone find a solution to this issue yet? Still experienceing in 10.9.2