[Liquidity X]

We just updated our G5s here at the lab (Quick TIme and Garageband ), and now the sound output is extremely distorted and crackly regardless if its a video on cnn.com or a song off iTunes. Tried Zapping the PRAM and repairing permissions, even reinstalled QT from the standalone installer on apple.com to no avail. Any ideas?

[SierraDragon]

MacFixit.com has commentary on the issue.

-Allen Wicks

[Big Mac]

One has to wonder if Apple bothers doing any rigorous QA on even half of its software releases.

[TerryR]

I had the same distortion in Quicktime (but it didn't appear in VLC) with the exact same files....I was thinking maybe it was a Perian problem); after RP, etc. didn't work, I ended up reinstalling the actual Security Update (I had originally performed the update through Software Update; the second time, I downloaded from Apple and installed), and that *seems* to have done the trick.