[G4] Sound Output Choppy/Fails During Outbound Network Activity?

[Steve Goldstein]

Sort'a.  I play my sound from my Quicksilver through the PowerWave 
amplifier which connects via USB.  I notice that often when I play 
music CD's or video DVD's, the sound gets distorted and tinny.  I 
have to open up the "Sound" Preference Pane, switch to Internal 
Speakers/Built-In Audio, and then back again, and it is OK for a 
little while longer.  I wondered if that had anything to do with 
overloading the USB bus.  BTW, this has happened through many 
versions of OS X, though I am up to date with 10.3.3 now.

--Steve

At 12:23 PM -0700 4/8/04, Jim Pacyga wrote:
>Anyone have the problem on OSX 10.x where if you have a USB sound 
>device (like SoundSticks) that the sound is intermittent or fails 
>completely if you have an outbound transfer of data over the network 
>(i.e., Airport/Ethernet)?
>
>I see in the Console that there is a watchdog now for the USB Audio 
>Driver, but it sure is annoying...I submitted it as a bug in 10.3.3 
>but was curious to see if anyone else gets it too?