PulseAudio: Pops or crackling when moving volume slider

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it was module-sine causing the pops and crackling. Somehow ~/.config/pulse/default.pa was set to load this module

Manjaro does not by default create configuration file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa
A user would normally create it to replace the default configuration /etc/pulse/default.pa

There are only 2 other posts on this forum that mention use of module-sine and neither mention using ~/.config/pulse/default.pa
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