My MacBook Pro 2018 version speakers are crackling.

ha no worries, have you ever opened any kind of audio program?

same here. Restart the program can solve this problem temporarily. Resetting NVRAM and SMC does not help AT ALL.

Guys, update your MacBooks today. Apple just quietly released a new update, focused for 2018 MacBook pros. It may fix the issue.

If it’s less than a month you can ask for a refund. Take the box with you.

I am also having this problem just today a little over 2 weeks from purchase. There are a lot of YouTube Videos starting to post what a cyclical crackle sounds like. Mine was when watching YouTube from Desktop For YouTube Application and then when playing from iTunes Apple Play.

I rebooted and now I cannot yet reproduce the crackle but I can return it and get my money back or keep it and hope its fixable in software or with Mac OS Mojave.

There have been lot of problems with the 2016 and 2017 models. Why go down that rabbit hole?

What to do?

I get a different repetitive sound sometimes(half a second echo), like a microphone feedback crackling. But I had yours as well. If I stop the audio source(youtube) the echo repeats 3-4 times then stops. Restart solves the issue momentarily.

Have you found any permanent solution. Does a replacement unit solve the problem ? Mine started doing this the first day after using it.

replacement won't solve the issue. I waited a week for my replacement only for it to happen again yesterday.

1st the throttle issue

2nd - sound crackling issue.

Who is in charge of quality control before they decide to ship these machines out to the public?

I ran additional tests this afternoon. I could not hear any crackling noise when I connected my Mojo. But I was only able to test for about an hour so it may be a bit premature to make a conclusion.

I have an appointment with Apple Authorized Service Provider this Wednesday night. I'm not sure what will be done there, but so far it's moving in the direction of this problem being a hardware issue, rather than software.

That's great idea to even the sampling rate - I experienced the cyclical crackle over a week ago once and I haven't been able to repeat it since - So I have canceled my return and re-purchased AppleCare plus. Kinda stressful.

Of course I totally disabled Siri for right now including hey Siri and now I'm able to sample way back down at 44,1000 No problems.

I am very hopeful that macOS Mojave will be focused on the T2 chip and perfect this as I have both the iMac Pro and the MacBook Pro 2018 having no issues since March in iMac Pro.

Thankful for the 32GB for parallels, Target Disk Mode, and VM's though -

i9, 32gb, 1tb

Good luck mate! I have reset the SMC settings twice and its still coming back. I spoke to Apple support this morning and they told me that its not an issue that apple are aware of and that its most likely a dodgy time machine backup. I even had someone tell me that i must start from scratch as my time machine is corrupt so yea i hope you arent told the same thing. Even after getting given a replacement i am still having the same issues and i have an appointment at the apple shop tomorrow so who knows whats going to happen

I have now had 2 brand new 2018 MacBook pros 13 inch 2.7gig, 16 ram 2018 models with the same crackling issue. I have only one program on the Mac which is Traktor and some music, thats it. The machine is not being pushed. With the first one it was intermittent and with the headphones in I would get a sort of crackling sound. With this second one the sound problems are more consistent and it echos as well as crunches. I am so annoyed at Apple, this is a Trillion dollar company, and this is a £3000 machine. This machine should be flawless at this price. The first time I called them they tried to deny this was a known problem, that was 4 days ago. The guy must have been lying, there are article all over the web about it and pages of forums talking about it (check Mac Rumors). There are a whole bunch of other issues, like my drag and drop function suddenly not working. Yesterday my Mac crashed when I was DJing. It didn't seem to be to handle my hard drive being plugged in. My 2013 Mac worked so much better. I feel that greed has consumed this company and it's fast losing my trust.

From Spain the same problem-

I discover one thing, probably it is not important. You can adjust the format on the microphone and the speakers in MIDI utility. Once open Logic Pro X, you can change the microphone setting, but the macbook speakers seems fixed to 44,1, it is not possible to choose any another value.

It is important or not?

My mbp 2018, 13" also have problems with speakers. I bought it 2 weeks ago. I'm restarting the mac for solve the problem. I call apple, they said to delete some folders from "audio" but, it doesn't work.

I don’t think apple released the throttle patch for the boot camp side just for Mac OS hence the extreme throttling. Just the sound issues and this throttling issued on boot camp make it so frustrating I need both Windows and Mac OS. I hope apple fixes this soon with an update to both Mac OS and boot camp. I’m heading to the apple store on Monday and see what is said or can be done. I’ve already tried resetting the smc. So the only thing I can think of is a bios update from apple or an update to reconfigure the smc or how the t2 functions as it’s a mess currently.

I returned my second 2018 15" Mac Book Pro today. The Apple Store said they haven't even heard about the sound crackling/repeating issue. I told them to Google it. Going to have to wait until the 2019 version comes out and hope it's not a flop either. Very disappointed in the state of the new hardware. My 2013 is still going strong though!!