@mitu thank you that explains it! i probaly change it back to pcm i was messing around with the audio TRYING to fix this awful snes stutter, lag in the audio in my snes games.... still no luck at all

@thelostsoul yeah.. it has to be something to do with the Pi3B itself.... i overclocked it..... looked for different roms... a different power supply..... redownloaded retropie and flashed to a new sd card and STILL the audio with snes crackles