Problem with manjaro-pulse was first reported August 2022
But packages can be installed individually without metapackage
For pacman:
sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa
Package manager will request install of the optional dependencies: pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf