Sound card crackling/popping

[pusha]

I'm using Debian 9.9 with stock PulseAudio, and I experience some crackling/popping from the speakers.

I've tried different speakers, and I don't have the issue in Windows, so this doesn't appear to be a hardware issue.

I have the following audio devices.

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00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a2f0
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 86c9
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

I get the crackling/popping sound when I view a Youtube video in Firefox of which I've tried multiple versions, the latest being 66.0.4.

It tends to only be there in the start of the video, and then go away. Sometimes I can start a video and there will be no crackling/popping sound at all in the start nor throughout the length of the video.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu ... _crackling?