Sound "freeze" on Mac OS X

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pongasoft
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17 Jan 2018

Hello

I have been experiencing an issue on my Mac for several weeks now: when I load a webpage or do something else, the sound freezes/skip for some time. I took a video showing the issue (note that you may have to raise the volume a bit as it is a bit soft).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yiWPgiBwReD5A9Gj2

I took this video while Reason is playing, but it does the same thing with any other (less CPU intensive) music application playing like Spotify or iTunes. Which makes browsing the internet while listening to music very unpleasant...

My Mac is fairly fast (don't have any other issues) and the CPU is far from being maxed out (especially when using Spotify for example)... Also this is "new" and this behavior was not happening a while ago on the same machine...

Has anybody experienced similar issue? Any suggestion what I could try?

Thanks
Yan
PS: posting in Kitchen since it does not seem to be related to Reason per se...

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FlowerSoldier
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17 Jan 2018

I use a mac but haven't experienced anything like that on 10.11 El Capitan.
Have you updated your OS recently?
Some of the recent updates were pushed out a little early if you ask me.

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pongasoft
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18 Jan 2018

I am on El Capitan as well...

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FlowerSoldier
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18 Jan 2018

Dang it.
My brother had a mac that began to misbehave for no apparent reason. Weird graphic & sound glitches.
Turned out his mac had a faulty logic board.
Apple replaced it, but he had to send it in for repairs.

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