I would verify the crackle using the winamp plugin (Eclipse) but it won’t read either set of my Hackers DTS discs (reads several other DTS discs I have just fine). At first I thought it was because of the encryption, but Hackers is from 1995 so shouldn’t be encrypted. Plus these are .AUD files…not .AUE.

The foobar plugin works, but that doesn’t help since you used that already. I don’t have speakers hooked up to the computer I was using, but I’ll try to listen to my discs with foobar and see if the same crackle is there.