Audio popping issue

[OmniusOmnium]

I have the audio issues bad since Endwalker. Have tried every fix mentioned here and elsewhere I have found and nothing eliminates it completely, particularly in raids or dungeons when there are a lot of effects going off. But setting listening position to 100, equalizer on standard, other players sound effects turned off, and that new spatial surround setting turned on (using free trial currently), all of those things seem to make it slightly better and somewhat tolerable. But this bug has definitely ruined for me what I thought would be an awesome mostly bug free release (given they had the extra 2 weeks to find and sort bugs like this).

I am very disappointed we are almost 4 days in and I am yet to see anything official from SE about it, they could at least acknowledge the issue. It seems fairly common to at least some degree for most people I've talked to in game and online. Surely they knew about something like this before release?? I am almost certain it has to do with the new spatial surround they have added, everything was fine before EW then they add this and the sound quality drops through the floor... And they expect us to pay for this thing?? And it bugs me that activating it helps with the issue because it just makes me think that the solution is just going to be "buy the gamepack or suffer low quality audio", seems like a bit of a scheme to me.

SE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THIS! I understand there are many things going on at SE with the launch and keeping servers up and all that, BUT for those of us that are suffering this issue it is enough to bring tears to the eyes. Yoshi had a cry about the game not being up to 'his standards' a couple of weeks ago, and promised us that the 2 week delay would be worth it... Well sorry to say it Yoshi, but you'd still be crying if you had to put up with this!

IF ANYONE from SE is reading this, please I beg you, call your supervisor, hell, call Yoshi himself and bring this issue to the attention of someone who has authority to acknowledge and then do something about it. We can deal with server congestion, we can deal with wait times and error 2002s... But we cannot deal with the game audio popping, fizzing, cutting out and/or sounding like it's coming out of a 1980s telephone.... I'd rather they take the servers down for a few hours to patch this than have to wait until 6.01 (or beyond), I think it is effecting enough people that it deserves a hotfix no matter the cost in downtime.

And as other's have suggested, if you are just starting out and discovered you have this issue, I'm sorry to say it, but you might as well hold off on playing because it will really tarnish the entire experience and you'll just get more and more disappointed the more you tolerate and put up with it, and those first time moments like MSQ cutscenes, dungeons and trials, you can never get back... Having those moments ruined by this audio bug is actually heart wrenching, don't do it to yourself, it's not worth it.

I guess that's my rant over.