Audio crackling issue

[Monarch]

http://youtu.be/vr0NBPRMe2E?t=5m31s

https://soundcloud.com/clint-mansell/death-is-the-road-to-awe

Do you guys hear crackling from 5:30 - 5:46 ? Or it's just me?

 

Also,

 

http://youtu.be/09LTT0xwdfw?t=1m46s

1:46 - 1:52

 

http://youtu.be/LYU-8IFcDPw?t=45s

At 0:45

 

http://youtu.be/kXYiU_JCYtU?t=2m57s

At 2:59 and 3:03

 

0 - 0:19 and then 0:40 - 1:07

 

 

Some of these aren't really HQ but I'm hearing the same with 320 kbps CD versions. 

[Atmos]

Yup, crackling ferser

 

BAd audio recording

[Monarch]

I can hear it in a lot of songs from many different bands. I've tried 2 different headphones with Xonar DGX and onboard sound, as well as onboard sound on another PC. Same thing. So I guess it has nothing to do with my gear. Why are their recordings so bad?

[EmoRarity]

I can hear it in a lot of songs from many different bands. I've tried 2 different headphones with Xonar DGX and onboard sound, as well as onboard sound on another PC. Same thing. So I guess it has nothing to do with my gear. Why are their recordings so bad?

To paraphrase Remy from Boondocks, "They just don't give a fuck."

[Monarch]

I can hear the crackling/popping in music, movies and games as well... in fact it seems to be present everywhere. It's there in Windows sounds, Steam chat notification sound, skipping through a song, in CS:GO gun sounds, BF4 heavy explosions, FC4 whenever I hit the gass (W) in a vehicle... And it's not random at all. I can reproduce it every time I play it.

 

Tried on a second PC with onboard sound, and on my current PC with both onboard and Xonar DGX. Also tested on 2 headsets. HyperX Cloud and a crappy G330 where the crackling is barely noticeable due to it's muffled sound. I guess that's why I never really noticed the issue when I was using it, before I upgraded to HyperX Cloud.  

 

Is this crackling/popping considered normal?