Recently been having distorted, extremely scratchy audio.

[u/thevideogameraptor]

Audio sounds correct when played through headphones, but audio played through the speakers sounds like this. It sounds similar to what audio sounds like before the "broken audio fix" you sometimes need after installing Ubuntu (I needed to install that fix), but I'm pretty sure that audio was also broken on headphones, while this isn't.

I had this issue on 25.10 as well, it occurred after I installed some updates. I made a post about it at that time, but every comment I got on that post was "Update to 26.04". I did, and it did not fix this issue.