MacBook EFI Firmware has the popping noise gone for you?

Installed the firmware upgrade today and eagerly hoped the annoying popping noise would magically disappear. Hope disappeared instead - it is still popping away. Any one else have a different experience?
Message was edited by: macvicar

I installed the EFI Firmware update 1.5 on April 14th. I'm using a Motu 828mkII with GarageBand and Logic and I now have the popping noise (a "vinyl", popping sound that seems to happen during recording, sometimes during playback).
Does anyone know why this was introduced? From other posts it appears that this was already a problem but I never had it until I installed the 1.5 update.
Another reason to not take the latest updates i guess...this is really frustrating. I also updated my Motu drivers but that did nothing. It appears this is definitely related to the firmware since I see all the other posts here in the Apple support forums.
Anyone from Apple out there??

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