While I was happy for my PC playing friends when I saw that 6.08 finally seems to have resolved the audio popping/static issues they've had since Endwalker released, I was dismayed to find that it *introduced* this problem to the Mac build for the first time.

Prior to 6.08 I never had audio issues with the game. SINCE, I have static/popping/crackling 100% of the time immediately after launch right from the title screen. I have three friends also playing on Mac with the same experience.

I found that I could make it a little better by running "Audio MIDI Setup" and changing the system's sampling rate to a higher setting - 44.1khz sounds horrendous, 48khz is just "kinda scratchy". 88.2khz sounds perfect at first, but eventually breaks down Results consistently replicate across different models of Mac and different players.

Observed on:
M1 Mac Mini (2x)
M1 Macbook Air
M1Max Macbook Pro 14"
All running latest Monterey, all were fine before 6.08.