Bad audio from playback

I seem to be having problems either with hardware or iTunes. First, I notice a delayed response with iTunes when pressing play. It didn't used to take so long to start a track, or even unpause a track. This is with only one other program open, Firefox. Also, with mutiple files from different albums, there are pops, dropouts, and clicks when listening to music. It sounds like I'm moving the 1/8th jack around in the headphone output. This would lead me to believe I'm having a hardware issue. It happens with headphones or speakers. Any thoughts?

I tried using a TOSLINK Motu device with iTunes and Spotify. Same situation. I am obviously having a hardware issue. I suppose I'll stop by a store.

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I JUST got my iMac today in the mail, and all was going swell, I was pleased... that is till i started to play some music, it sounded a little weird, I isolated the problem to the right side.
I played a movie and the speech is what's noticeably distorted.
I heard apple has a return policy, what is it?

Sorry to hear of your problem. Contact wherever you bought it from and ask them. No one here can help you as we are just users and the decision has to come from wherever you purchased it. I would imagine that they would replace a bad, brand new out of the box unit but only the seller can do that for you.
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We got asked to film a pageant in a high school theater at the last minute. The audio feed from the house was horrible - they never turned off the MCs mic even when we brought to their attention. The best audio I have for one particular song is from the mic on a Canon GL2. However the words seems loud and distorted coming out of the speakers in the theater. I have tried noise reduction and high-pass filters. The problem is that what needs to be reduced is in the voice from the performers mic and the house speakers, not simply room noise. So it is impossible to get a noise print without including the voice.
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You tried a compressor? It'll make the louder parts quieter, and push up the quieter parts if properly set. Unfortunately with the voice and the music on one track they're just that, one track. They can't really be separated.
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I have the same problem and I know that it is due to my PCI Audio driver not being compatible with WIndows 8.1.
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I see that the option called “give exclusive mode applications priority” has been checked.
Usually different applications and programs can access the sound card simultaneously.
For example: you can hear the sound in game, while you can run your own music via an external player.
This is prevented with these options “give exclusive mode applications priority”.
Maybe you should disable (uncheck) this option to prevent the different applications for using this exclusive mode stream.
I did it for my DAC. I set the DAC for exclusive mode. Once my audio playback software starts to play music, no other software is able to share the DAC.
However, I use Win 7 and Realtek sound driver… It’s another configuration.
So it’s not known to me if your issue is related Win 8.1 system or maybe limitation of sound driver… it could be also possible that one of your sound applications don’t allow multiple sound streaming.

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DovSolomon
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