My MacBook Pro 2018 version speakers are crackling.

I am having an issue with my 13' MBP 2018 also. Its a minor problem, but its still a very annoying problem about the weird noise from the speaker. Whenever I skip videos in Youtube/MPlayerX or any other player using the left/right key on the keyboard, there will always be a weird click (crackle) noise which never happens in my old MBP. I know this is definitely not a issue with the video player or Safari because this weird click noise (crackle) also happens when I press Esc key on a program sometimes. If anyone have a fix to this, please reply to my email.

I believe that my issue is related to a sound coming from the speakers. I've been wondering for so long is that, how in the world will I get this issue fixed if changing the laptop itself still yields the same issue. I really hope Apple pays close attention to fixing this problem or issuing a return policy as I have just go this MacBook Pro 2018 in a week.

I am quite shock with the "technical Issues" on the MBP 2018 as I have never experienced them on my old 2011 MBP before. However, I am aware that some of these issues are common to every other person who pays close attention to their MBP.

Another wierd screen issue that I experienced which only happen once is this: Macbook Pro 13' 2018 Screen Issue - YouTube.

The only way to get rid of this screen glitch was restarting the computer. However, this never happened to me again afterwards.

I know that the screen issue is not common in the 2018's MBP, but like...... I was shocked when it happened. It is very hard to get a replacement MBP in my country as the third party reseller also doesn't like the return policy, and this has already been my second replacement.

I think the problem here is people are having a variety of different audio issues, and are all congregating in the same threads! I checked the post in the Mac Rumors forum, that guy seems to have a different problem to the one I was having that was solved (which at the time was quite widespread).

It's disappointing that there are so many different issues with these Macs. After the audio issue was solved for me, I started having some pretty bad bugs with video playback, which were thankfully solved by Mojave, and now it's working perfectly.

However I definitely don't have confidence that I won't find myself with more issues later on. Apple really needs to do something about its quality control.

On the bright side, at least they aren't deleting all our files like a certain other computer company! It's sad that that's even something we need to worry about with 2018 technology.

At least my N64 still works perfectly 🙂

Hello Asher,

I'm in the exact same position as you my friend.

Furthermore, I hope for a new 15-inch model with inferior specs (will be ok for my needs) than the Pro one, at Oct. 30 event.

Thank you and keep us posted.

I have not. I still Adobe CS6, and when I was running the Mojave betas on 2 MBP's, the programs either didn't work or didn't work well enough for me to use them properly. I'm still hesitant to update without having confirmation that those programs will run smoothly (I see very mixed results on this online) since it's for my job.

Doing that would still leave me with the uncertainty that these programs will not function well afterwards. Also, judging by others in this forum (and many others) having the same exact problem, whether or not I update to Mojave will not matter. This is clearly a much bigger problem for Apple.

I just bought my MacBook Pro Tuesday and it was doing great until after listening to music on it after awhile the speakers start to pop. I really hope this is a glitch because it would suck to have to get another one

OMG AM I DREAMING OR MY LAST COMMENT HERE HAS BEEN DELETED ??!

I was explaining that Apple proposed me to send me a cable as compensation and in any case I would accept such a joke !

I also highly recommended you retweet that if you're also disappointed with Apple service and want a decent compensation :

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Thanks everyone.

Got my Mac book pro 13” beginning November at the Berlin apple store in Germany had the same kreck sound and got today it replaced for a new one at the same apple store in Berlin. After expland 6 hours installing everything again, I am a music producer!!!! I got after q hours found music the same creep noise again!

I can send to repair and will take me 14 days maximum to get it back, any way will works that?!

Don’t think so....

I bought my mac is less than 01 month and I am having problems with the audio, it seems that the sound comes out as if the boxes were damaged, the sound of the right box with a constant noise as if it had scratched the sound. And worse, now Apple's suggestion is to send for technical assistance to replace parts, which does not help because it would take a while that I do not have to run out of a computer. The least they should do is to immediately change the computer to a new one without any problems.

Same issue here but now is getting even worst, every time i play music or whatever, there is the crackling, double voices and etc. After i restart my Macbook Pro 2018 13inch the problem gets resolved for 5-10 min. and then everything goes back to the crackling, double voices version....

Same issue here with my 5 days old MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018 – 2,6 GHz i7, 16GB Ram). Running 10.14.4.

Nothings helps – the sound of the left speaker is crackling every time I play music, watch movies or whatever. Restarting the MacBook fixes the problem for a few seconds.

Still struggling with same issue. After about 50 minutes of iTunes listening , or tv streaming, or a longer youtube watching, my 15" MacBook Pro starts crackling every 10 seconds. Back and forth to assistance several times without results. Very frustrating and unacceptable.

Same problem. Talking to tech support right now. He doesn't seem to have any ideas.

That is extremely odd, extremely after getting it replaced. What version of macOS are you using?

Richard