M-Audio M-Track output audio crashes to white noise using Pulseaudio

I'm not sure if this is a problem with the USB Audio ALSA driver or a problem with PulseAudio.

At seemingly inconsistent intervals, the audio will start a pinging as if the data streamed from my Audio Interface may not be in sync.

Most of the time, though, it will completely crash out and output a horrendous hiss of white noise. It completely eclipses the output of the audio currently being played-back and my hardware mixer's peak meter shows as full blast/extreme clipping. When the music is up loud the crash out it's enough to make anyone to insane for a moment and throw off their headphones / unplug their equipment immediately to make it stop.

This seems to occur most often while streaming audio in a browser. I initially thought it could be due to Flash or some browser behavior, but I have also experienced it with all browsers closed and streaming music stored on my hard disk using the Audacious playlist manager.

I use an OpenSUSE 42.1 for work and have not experienced this behavior on this OS yet.

Could this be a fault of PulseAudio?

I've had the audio dropouts/white noise crashes happen with Ardour sessions using Jack, but usually only when I've stepped away from my audio project for several hours and come back to it. When I close out of my project and qjackctl, then restart jackd and reload my session, everything is back to normal.

My current workaround in Pulse is to open pavucontrol and switch M-Audio in the "configuration" tab to off or turn it to Analog Stereo Duplex and back.

Normally my setting is on Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)

I have also experienced this issue using Analog Stereo Duplex.

Any tips for debugging my PulseAudio configuration or potentially the ALSA driver in use would be greatly appreciated.

I've tried the solution here and it didn't make a difference.
http://ift.tt/2aNvBzF

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M-Audio M-Track output audio crashes to white noise using Pulseaudio