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aaaaaaaaa my suffering is finally over
if you’re a Mac user and you suddenly find you’re getting horrible crunchy noise that’s shaped by, but usually quieter than, the music you’re listening to… go into the “Audio MIDI Setup” and change output sample depth from 16-bit to 24-bit
@hikari holy crap, either you have great ears or that's several layers of bad
@flippac oh I assure you I don’t have great ears, the reason it’s audible is that with in-ear earphones, your max output volume is like 10% at most, often 5% or less, so relatively “quiet” noise becomes quite noticeable
@flippac and yeah it’s worrying this is a thing. it happens with multiple different apps so it makes me worry it’s the OS itself that’s introducing the quantisation noise ;_;