Every time audio starts playing, there's a small pop and a light continuing hiss in the background. When sound stops playing, there's another small pop and the hissing goes away. Razer Barracuda 2022 over wireless.
#Sound pops in and out and hisses when playing
hidden olive
ebon citrus
What are you using, Linux Mint? Linux Mint Debian Edition? Any other relevant details, like, did things work well before recently, is this new audio device, what version of Mint are you using, etc.
Sharing a bit more details might be helpful for peeps trying to help. 
north quarry
if its motherboard aux and getting hiss and pops. consider buying a dac/amp on amazon
ancient echo
share results of inxi -A
north quarry
this would show more information in general
clear ; echo '' ; echo 'Kernel Version' ; uname -r ; cat /proc/asound/version ; lscpu | grep 'Byte Order' ; echo '\' ; echo 'Audio Server and Devices' ; inxi -A ; echo '' ; echo '~' ; echo 'Output device info' ; echo '\' ; pactl info | grep -E 'Default Sink|Server Name' ; echo '' ; echo '~' ; echo 'Device Bitrate Hz' ; echo '\' ; echo 'Pulseaudio' ; pactl info | grep 'Default Sample' | awk {'print $4, $5, $6'} ; echo '|' ; echo 'Pipewire' ; pw-cli info 0 | grep default.clock.rate | awk {'print $2, $3, $4'} ; echo '' ; echo '~' ; echo 'Devices Connected' ; cat /proc/asound/cards ; echo '|' ; echo 'Log/Connected' ; sudo dmesg | grep -E 'Audio|audio|devices/virtual/input/input' | grep -v 'pad'