Popping Sound is possible caused by...

I believe that the annoying popping sound coming from my MBP's speakers when a sound event happens-occurs mostly if not always after I run Quicktime. I will keep track of this now. I haven't observed hearing the popping if I restart my mac and do not launch quicktime. Does anyone else have this same experience with quicktime??

nycfly89,
Try disabling the sound effects for Mail and iChat.
In Mail, under the Mail menu, Preferences, General tab, New mail sound: select None.
And maybe uncheck [ ] Play sounds for other mail actions.
In iChat, under the iChat menu, Preferences, Alerts tab, select the Event you want to change and uncheck [ ] Play sound:
Repeat for all the events you don't want a sound for.
Ivan

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