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Audio Dropouts with New (2018) Mac Mini [Solved -- Time Machine]

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jdindc:
I don't know if it helps, but I was able to confirm that the "EQ" bars continue to move during a dropout.

Josh

blgentry:
jdindc:  Did you say your dropouts are LONG, like 2 seconds each?  That's very different than what I experienced on my system.  That might indicate a different failure mechanism.  Have you tried a different DAC?  Or maybe the internal sound card of the Mac?  Just trying to isolate the variables.

Brian.

blgentry:
RayG:

Your SSD experience seems similar to mine in some ways.  My MacBook Pro that had the problem had a regular spinning hard drive in it.  At one point I did a FULL reinstall of everything from scratch on that Mac.  My initial tests, after reinstallation, showed no dropouts!  But then I started loading more programs, and more media files (like videos that were large, which pushed the drive utilization up.  What's really odd is, the more full my drive got, I started noticing dropouts.  As it got more full, I got more dropouts.

I never got that drive "very full" (like over 90%), but I definitely noticed a correlation between drive fullness and dropouts.

My new Mac had an SSD from the start and quadruple the RAM, and a faster processor.  It's never had dropouts.  Not sure what combination influenced that the most.  The SSD might be the whole key.  Or not. 

Brian.

DJLegba:
Are you aware of this? It certainly sounds like something that could be relevant.

http://cdm.link/2019/02/apple-2018-glitch/?fbclid=IwAR2RD3_r5nGms0j4HMHdxSqaSwpWXGhbxfJAJACDK7c2fFfd7Bb7zlY2KSw

Awesome Donkey:
Oh wow, that's not good. Hopefully Apple fixes that ASAP in an update.

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