Apple Airpods Pro 3 crashing/makes crakling sound when it comes listening to music on max volume and only for song what goes over 100db

Hey, got my Apple Airpods Pro 3 for a while now, have updated everything, and all protection settings have been turned off for volume as i love to listen to it loud and always to max volumes i have done it all my life and with all other apple earbuds what i have owned, but the issue with pro 3 starts when it comes to drum n base music and when it goes over 100db, every single time it the same time soon as it goes over 100db its starts to tear apart the sound like makes these crakling sound and feels like the earbuds can’t handle the power what comes from its own apple iphone and music from Apple Music, lossless 16bit/44,1 kHz ALAC and Hi-Res Lossless The phone i currently use and found this problem with earbuds is iphone 16 pro max i don’t know if its the phones issue, because i have other earbuds like apple pro 2 who doesn’t have thiss problem listen how loud you want and nothing like the pros 3 have. So i dont think its the phone and i have even bought cheaper earbuds from different brand (ScullCandy mesh) what doesnt have issues at all and tou can blast your music like really loud and everything is clear, i have tried give it a time maybe update comes out or someone else experiencing the same and is there a fix for that.? Because i dont want to make them quieter i want to use the max volume… and half of my playlist contains music what is over 100db and all of the music what i have is from apple music in lossless quality or even in hi-res…

and pro 3 has a nicer bass than pro2 but can’t handle the max volume what is the strangest thing…. And finally my brother who decided to buy airpods pro 3 too and have the same iphone 16 pro and the same is listening music in apple music and is experiencing the same issues, i even shared him those songs what is in my playlist to just see if it starts to make thees crakling sounds in the same moment as i have on mine, and yea everything happens the same second on my brother earbuds and on his phones just as i have…..

is there a fix for this or is there coming a software updates what will fixx this issue.?

Posted on Nov 12, 2025 8:53 AM

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Apple Airpods Pro 3 crashing/makes crakling sound when it comes listening to music on max volume and only for song what goes over 100db

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