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<blockquote data-quote="gstern1994" data-source="post: 1440261" data-attributes="member: 269300">Newbie here, so I apologize if I haven't seen the previous threads.I have a 2011 27&quot; 2.7 8GB Ram iMac. Love the computer, but I have some weird and very annoying audio problems.When I use Garageband, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes or any other media related app, I'll get intermittent lockup of the machine and all audio ceases until the iMac unfreezes (sometimes up to 30 seconds).Called Apple (I have Apple Care fortunately) and we reset a bunch of parameters, killed some odd codecs, etc. No dice. Problems still persisted.I lived with it for a while, but I finally had it after I was recording with my buddies and Garageband couldn't push out 4 simultaneous tracks before causing the system to choke. I thought it might be GB specific, but it's anything that plays audio.Called Apple again and the determined that my hard drive was probably the culprit, and we scheduled to replace it. Well, that is done and the problem is still there - I'm kind of a t a loss now. What could be causing all of these audio related freezes on a brand new hard drive and no 3rd party audio junk to get in the way?Thanks in advance for any advice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gstern1994, post: 1440261, member: 269300"] Newbie here, so I apologize if I haven't seen the previous threads. I have a 2011 27" 2.7 8GB Ram iMac. Love the computer, but I have some weird and very annoying audio problems. When I use Garageband, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes or any other media related app, I'll get intermittent lockup of the machine and all audio ceases until the iMac unfreezes (sometimes up to 30 seconds). Called Apple (I have Apple Care fortunately) and we reset a bunch of parameters, killed some odd codecs, etc. No dice. Problems still persisted. I lived with it for a while, but I finally had it after I was recording with my buddies and Garageband couldn't push out 4 simultaneous tracks before causing the system to choke. I thought it might be GB specific, but it's anything that plays audio. Called Apple again and the determined that my hard drive was probably the culprit, and we scheduled to replace it. Well, that is done and the problem is still there - I'm kind of a t a loss now. What could be causing all of these audio related freezes on a brand new hard drive and no 3rd party audio junk to get in the way? Thanks in advance for any advice. [/QUOTE]

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