"Popping" sound through external speakers

I'm using the Apple Pro speakers through an iFire on my G5 iSight and have been getting a popping sound through the external speakers. This does not happen with the internal ones. This topic is mentioned over on the intel iMac discussions board and seems to be a widespread problem. It appears that many different brands of speakers are making the popping sounds. My external speakers work perfectly with my iBook. The external speakers sound much better than the internal ones. I hope there is a fix for this. Anyone else have this problem?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.3) 20' iSight

Hi, on the older white intel iMacs we use to open&close Midi. Sometimes it worked sometimes not.
My intel iMac popped until I changed my older Logitech 2 speakers + Bass unit for a set of Bose..L

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