Windows 10: Progressively Worse Audio Quality (Crackling)

Discus and support Progressively Worse Audio Quality (Crackling) in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hello. Hoping someone can help me. Since upgrading my Windows 7 to Windows 10, I've had audio problems. At first the audio quality was terrible... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Wolffenjugend, Aug 12, 2016.

  1. WOLFFENJUGEND
    Wolffenjugend Win User

    Progressively Worse Audio Quality (Crackling)


    Hello. Hoping someone can help me. Since upgrading my Windows 7 to Windows 10, I've had audio problems. At first the audio quality was terrible (hissing, crackling) so I uninstalled and reinstalled my NVIDIA drivers. This fixed the problem but now I find that the audio quality gets worse over time. Once I reboot it goes back to pristine quality and that lasts a day or two but slowly the quality gets worse with more crackling. It's very annoying.

    Any idea what's going on? Is it somehow tied to my RAM or some kind of cache that builds up over time?

    I'm a noob so bear with me!

    :)
     
    Wolffenjugend, Aug 12, 2016
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  2. CK44052
    CK44052 Win User

    Video I record has Crackling sound in audio. I notice it more in HD video. Why?

    I've had the same problem. It also occurs while playing back all youtube videos. I wish they would fix it already. I have tried lowerind the playbacl quality from studio to the lowest CD quality and disabled all audio enhancements. Nothing has helped, It sucks
    to have a computer with bad sound..
     
    CK44052, Aug 12, 2016
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  3. CLOSETOSOMETHINGREAL
    closetosomethingreal Win User
    Bad audio-quality over A2DP

    Same exact issue, audio quality rocks over cable, and my Android device (ancient HTC Magic) has great audio quality over the A2DP speakers, but the new WP7 sucks over them (LG Optimus 7). Tons of distortion and crackling.
     
    closetosomethingreal, Aug 12, 2016
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  4. DALCHINA
    dalchina New Member

    Progressively Worse Audio Quality (Crackling)

    Hello, this may be difficult for you to deal with and you may find the need to call on your neighbourhood teen geek or technical friend..*Biggrin
    Please can you post a screenshot of your task manager- click the CPU tab to show the processes using the most CPU resources.

    If you search this forum for 'crackle' 'latency' you will find many threads on this topic which occurred for a number using Win 10 with older PCs, although it's not occurred recently.
    Here's my search for crackle. First ones to look at are those marked solved- but not everyone marks their thread as solved.

    Progressively Worse Audio Quality (Crackling) [​IMG]


    Which AV do you use?
    Some extracted notes:
    Stuttering- pops crackles.doc
     
    dalchina, Aug 12, 2016
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