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aaaaaaaaa my suffering is finally over
if youāre a Mac user and you suddenly find youāre getting horrible crunchy noise thatās shaped by, but usually quieter than, the music youāre listening toā¦ go into the āAudio MIDI Setupā and change output sample depth from 16-bit to 24-bit
iāve been hit by this cursed problem so many times over the years, on multiple different MacBooks, and it can drive you insane because itās not the earphones, itās not the power supply, itās not the specific laptopā¦ surely itās not a software issue? haha. hahahaha. it was.
16-bit quantisation noise is real and it can hurt you š
if anyone ever tells you that undithered 16-bit is not gonna be noticeably badā¦ maybe if youāre mastering a CD, but if youāre using in-ear earphones on a laptop, you might have the output volume set to less than 5%, and aaaaaa itās horrible. it is hell. itās Very audible
oh god the noise is back. (checks settings) huh, itās reset itself. what. why did that happen