Sound popping/crackling randomly

I have the same issue too while listening to on-line music.

System:
  Kernel: 5.12.14-arch1-1-surface x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-surface 
  root=UUID=967e3b8e-27e5-45c6-a447-4fdb42245305 rw quiet loglevel=3 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Microsoft product: Surface Pro 6 
  v: 124000000000000000000000D:0B:13F:5C:10P:38S:01E:0 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Microsoft model: Surface Pro 6 serial: <filter> UEFI: Microsoft 
  v: 235.3732.768 date: 04.20.2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 32.4/45.0 Wh (71.9%) 
  volts: 8.2 min: 7.6 model: SMP M1009169 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Full cycles: 347 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.69 GiB used: 3.13 GiB (40.8%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: EA cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 28808 
  Speed: 700 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 700 2: 2158 
  3: 1666 4: 775 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 791 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 
  sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt 
  xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Microsoft driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2736x1824 s-dpi: 193 s-size: 361x241mm (14.2x9.5") 
  s-diag: 434mm (17.1") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.3 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Imaging 
  Unit 
  driver: ipu3-imgu alternate: ipu3_imgu bus-ID: 00:05.0 chip-ID: 8086:1919 
  class-ID: 0480 
  Device-2: Intel CSI-2 Host driver: ipu3-cio2 alternate: ipu3_cio2 
  bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d32 class-ID: 0480 
  Device-3: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.14-arch1-1-surface running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless driver: mwifiex_pcie 
  v: 1.0 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:2b38 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Marvell Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Composite type: USB 
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 1286:204c class-ID: e001 
  serial: <filter> 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 63.79 GiB (26.7%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba model: N/A 
  size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: ADMS0101 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 92.09 GiB size: 90.08 GiB (97.82%) used: 23.47 GiB (26.1%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: Manjaro 
  uuid: 967e3b8e-27e5-45c6-a447-4fdb42245305 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) 
  used: 34.8 MiB (13.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: SYSTEM uuid: C8B8-2E22 
  ID-3: /home/<filter>/C raw-size: 50.06 GiB size: 50.06 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 30.53 GiB (61.0%) fs: fuseblk dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
  label: C uuid: 000C27AD0C279CA2 
  ID-4: /home/<filter>/D raw-size: 96.06 GiB size: 96.06 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 9.75 GiB (10.2%) fs: fuseblk dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 
  label: D uuid: 224C64D04C649FF1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-5:3 info: Marvell Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Composite 
  type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 1286:204c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-7:2 info: Microsoft Surface Type Cover type: HID 
  driver: hid-multitouch,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 045e:09c0 class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 223 Uptime: 1h 24m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1086 lib: 295 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04

I am using a SONY WH-1000XM3 bluetooth earphone, and I am sure that it is OK.

I am at unstable channel and I recently updated:

libmfx-21.2.3-1  nspr-4.32-1  pango-1:1.48.7-1