Sound Crackles?

I'm beginning to implement sound into my current project, and as I do I've begun to notice a constant crackling. This happens across multiple machines, and I'm not doing anything particularly wacky or interesting - my sound profiles and audio descriptions are identical to the ones used in the tutorial save for the files themselves, and the popping occurs even if I play only a single sound. Loaded up in any other sound player, my .wavs play without problem, and they're taken from two different sources - my mic and an additive synthesis program, so I'm pretty sure the sound files themselves aren't the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this a Torque problem, or are there additional things I could be doing in the code to help prevent popping noises from occurring?