Static noise when playing sound

For what it’s worth, running the following seems to fix the issue:

pulseaudio -k

As to why, I have no idea.

Edit: This works reliably for me. Whenever this issue comes up, I run this command to fix it.

I am not a specialist in this area and don't know why the following worked, but it appears to have fixed the exact same problem on my computer.

In the file /etc/pulse/default.pa change the line:

load-module module-udev-detect

to read:

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

I found this on another thread where several others also claimed it solved the same audio problem for them.