Problem with USB audio device

Hi all
I have many problem with a USB device sound, i have a plantronic headset with a usb adapter to connect on my macbook pro, I have already this problem in the past but i have found a astuce to fix this problem. Before, when i'm on teamspeak 2, 3 or other software to capture audio with my headset, after 10 minutes, the sound make noise and i have a robotic voice... Since mac OS 10.5.7 apple have change the USB audio driver. i have found on internet the previous driver and change it on mac os X but since the new mac os 10.6.5 the problem com back with the previous or the new driver audio. I don't know if other people have this problem but this is very annoying.
I have test my device on windows with boot camp many hour and nothing, no problem of distord sound or robotic voice.
PS : I'm french and my english can be bad, sorry for that.

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