>I hit the mute button on my MacBook Pro Touchbar, and it took a solid two seconds for it to register. My ears were ringing throughout the whole call. This is u

>I hit the mute button on my MacBook Pro Touchbar, and it took a solid two seconds for it to register. My ears were ringing throughout the whole call. This is unacceptable. The USB-C era MacBook Pros had some serious degradation in the audio department. The previous much loved generation, you plug headphones in the audio system switches to them so fast it's perceivable as instant, the USB-C era there is at best a 0.5 delay and at worst a 2 second delay. During this delay anything you change volume wise will actually apply to the previous setting not the new setting, so the usual scenario where you're in the office you have the speakers on mute, plug in headphones then you don't hear anything because of the delay so you hit volume up will actually set your speakers off mute. Later on you unplug your headphones and your laptops speakers are then blaring out whatever you were playing instead of remaining on mute. This situation would never happen in the pre-USB-C MBP because the headphone switch was instant, it felt like a hardwired connection. Like a lot of things on the USB-C MacBooks interactions like sound and power feel more like interfacing with a what people may call a "device" rather than a computer, there are tangible layers that have to handshake between your real world action and the hardware catching up sometimes seconds later. (This is all the non-touchbar model, so it's not just that)