What an awful thing to work with! I had to come and suggest this because it hadn't been posted yet: I just made this go away on my 2014 macbook pro by switching the audio hardware setting from "Built-in Speakers" to "System Default Input/Output" with that system setting directed toward the "Built-in Speakers." Same result - just letting the OS direct the audio rather than the software. Who knows if it will last, but right now I'm not getting those eardrum-splitting (and potentially hardware destroying) pops.
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