Audio popping and crackling problems across the board with Mavericks

I'm experiencing the same issue for a while now.

if I do nothing except playing music through itunes, its fine, but as soon as I use another programm like safari and starts cracking like ****. same goes for youtube, other audio programs like ableton live or pro tools with NI Audio 8 DJ... its super annyoing! none of the above solutions helped... 😟 feels like im working on a 20 year old computer who cant handle playing music!

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I just put Audio Midi Setup app in my dock, and when the issue begins, I just hop in, make the change to 48000.0Hz and it fixes it. It seems to be happening less lately, but I swap between outputs a lot, and that tends to exacerbate the situation.

There are several threads on this issue. I also find that audio from Preview panes in Finder are fine, but QuickTime Player X is terrible. As others have noted, QuickTime Player 7 is fine. Different apps exhibit the problem to different degrees.

It's not the Fusion Drive, which did have an audio problem early on.

I can only encourage people to submit feedback or bug reports to Apple. (Posting here does not count.)

This issue is incredibly annoying. I can't listen to my music the way I want to, I have to lower the volume to a whisper for the crackling to go away. I have tried all the "solutions" posted here, nothing seems to work.

Changing to 9600 fixed my issue as well.

Actually It Didn't Work For Me I Did The Same You Did.

But When I Use Headphones they Are Normal Please Reply Me.

MacBook Late 2008 Aluminium Unibody

I have been struggling with this very issue on a USB Plantronics 655 headset that my employer gave us for Lync calls. I am running a new mac mini with Mavericks 10.9.4. I found out that unplugging and replugging back in the headset corrected it but it would still come back after a while. I also found that toggling the selected output device back to internal speakers and back to the headset fixed it temporarily as well. It was still very frustrating that it kept coming back though.

After reading the posts here I went in to the MIDI Setup and began poking around. I looked at the help and under aggregate device settings it says that the sampling rate for all your devices has to be the same. My Plantronics 655 headset was set to 44.1kHz and 2ch - 16 bit integer, and it could not be changed. The built-in input and output devices were both set to 2ch - 24 bit integer. I set the built-in input and output devices to the same setting as the headset. After a while the problem returned yet again. I then tried muting both the built in devices in the MIDI set up app and it has been over 24 hours without the problem coming back.

Sorry, I spoke too soon. The problem has returned.

I had this problem, and the solution was turning off the Equaliser.

It has been 3+ years since you posted this issue. Here it is almost 2017 and it appears to have reared it's ugly little head. I am not sure how to fix it yet either. I have tried everything, everyone has suggested. No luck. The only thing that has changed on my system is an iTunes Update 12.5.4 on December 14, 2016. Prior to that date, I have never experienced this issue. (And I have been using macs and macbooks for a very long time. - I even had a Newton, crazy right.) Needless to say I am hoping that this is an isolated issue and that a fix is coming soon. If anyone has pointers let me know.

similarly I just changed the Audio MIDI Setup Format to 48,000 Hz and the clicks and pops seem to have disappeared..