I’m experiencing crackling, static sound from my speakers and wired in-ear headphones

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Not sure at which update exactly, it had been 2 months without updating, but I’m experiencing crackling, static sound from my speakers. I’m using PulseAudio and a VFIO setup and when I startup the Windows VM the audio there sounds perfectly fine, which is very weird but on my Manjaro host, it doesn’t sound alright.

Besides that everything’s great.

DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.2.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Qonos
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

I’ll continue to investigate to see what’s up.

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