[PoE 2] Sound cracking sound

if poe2 is open every sound have some crackling noise in it.
When its closed, it emediatly disapered.

The same thing happens to me, it's very annoying. I hope they fix it quickly.

I thought it was my earbuds dying. I'm glad I googled it.

Same for me.

Same here

I am also experiencing this issue, on top of my discord input crapping itself ONLY while poe 2 is running. When I am playing any other game my friends can hear me just fine, as soon as poe2 opens I go robot mode.

Same here. Sounds like static. very annoying.

Same here, no other program, game, app, or anything with audio causes this.

Very strange, tested multiple head phones still persists.

same here. I have the same issue on poe1 as well since forever. I use an audio interface (focusrite scarlett 2i2) and I recognise that only in Poe 1 and 2 I have massive usb issues, meaning all peripherals will disconnect for some milliseconds during playing poe1/2. Interestingly this becomes a lot better (not going away completely) when I don't use the audio interface for sound output but my onboard sound or another realtek device (in a kvm switch). So I suspect poe is somehow messing with usb.

I have had the same issue since the launch of early access.