Chiming in with the same stuttering/popping sound issue. I've had this since the moment I hit the login screen for Endwalker Early Access, and none of the myriad of proposed fixes have solved the problem. Lower bitrate, dropping back to DX9, sound source positions, etc etc.

As everyone else has already said, I have never once had this issue prior to the expansion's release, and spent most of the game with my volume lowered/off because of how distracting and irritating the issue is. I also noticed this specific issue, the stutter/pop problem, was not mention in known problems even though there have been multiple threads with dozens, if not more, pages about the problem.

PLEASE, if nothing else, acknowledge you're seeing these posts and give some sort of assurance there are people looking into it, at the very least. It's disheartening to feel like nobody's listening when you folks are usually so good about it.