I noticed the cracking sound when listening to music while I was working on my Homework today (Netease music). I thought it was a recording problem. I then chose other songs, it was the same. Very annoying! I just brought my device recently, I never brought it out. Is it the system bugs or something?
MacBook Air M2 making cracking sound
I noticed the same thing today. I killed coreaudiod process in activity monitor and it stopped. This can't be a permanent solution though!