New Acer Aspire laptop.

[dave.king1]

Clocking typically will cause clicks rather than distortion, at least that's what occurs in digital telephony and we're still only dealing with a stream of zeros and ones here

[DrNomis_44]

Clocking typically will cause clicks rather than distortion, at least that's what occurs in digital telephony and we're still only dealing with a stream of zeros and ones here

Exactly, inside the 2i2 are a pair of circuits that do all the AD/DA conversion, I still think that there's a power supply issue that's causing the crackly distortion.