I have the same problem with Win 7 and Mathematica 11.0.1.0. About a year ago I contacted tech support and they had me run a notebook that failed and generated a huge dump. I sent the dump to them and was informed it was an issue with Audio manager whatever that means. No corrective action was taken. I don't use Audio and won't upgrade Mathematica again.

No problems here with MM11.3 and Win 10 Version 1607 (OS build 14393.2248) I have the Intel graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 and a discrete NVidia Quadro M1000M. Conexant Audio driver 11/7/2017 9.0.163.0

It was discussed above your Input syntax was wrong (I did not check if it was)

I posted video above showing that Mathematica crashes if I merely start it and search the docs for "Audio".

I also reported that Mathematica deals fine with my syntax when I run from command-line interface.

Also that Mathematica deals fine with my syntax if I follow my syntax by a semicolon to suppress StandardForm-output of the Audio object.

Space left below for others to falsely accuse my syntax of error.

Here's my tip. It was discussed above your Input syntax was wrong (I did not check if it was)

Here is an example: I plot a Graphics3D[ Cylinder[{0,0,0}] ]. The kernel quits. Usually if I give wrong syntax to a Primitive I just get an un-evaluated return Prim[{...}] and a message (and error box stuff in front end). However the syntax in the example is certainly wrong and if used properly it is displayed properly.

Mathematica 11.0 on Apple Sierra OS crashes at least daily seemingly randomly no matter what is done, in my experience (not a kernel quit, the whole shebang). however i need to upgrade to 11.1.0 which i've delayed on.

This bug remains in v11.1.0.0.

You may contact support:

http://www.wolfram.com/support/contact/email/?topic=Feedback

This thread is leading to anything and everything besides Wolfram acknowledging and fixing this bug, so here is video demonstrating one aspect of the bug:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzxpw7yVqcD3UTVFS2ZjdmVtd1k

For software to develop in the right direction, sometimes a community needs to say "that's a bug" instead of blaming everything on non-existent user-errors.

It looks like that the settings/rights of the Mathematica Front End are somewhat restricted when you run audio file, i.e., the settings/rights in your OS of the Wolfram Mathematica 11 program are not enough to run correctly audio file.

Dear Joe, I tried to reproduce your example on my computer with $Win 10$ and that is all I can did following the documentation. I tried to reproduce the Mathematica kernel crashing as you did. On my computer it didn't appear.

The issue is in your example. First, you have an error writing a list as ${testSeries, testSeries}$. It Must be $Flattened[]$. Second, from Documentation examples it seems that your $mySampleRate$ must be the length of your list. Third, to produce a sound you must construct a correct Audio data. I suppose that the data you construct must be modified to produce a sound. Concluding, I propose to experiment with the following code:

Manipulate[
 Audio[Table[Mod[i, n], {i, 48000}], "SignedInteger8"],
{{n, 30}, 1, 400, 1}]

Your example is appropriate with the case when $n=2$.

If instead of running Mathematica (full) I run "Wolfram Mathematica 11 Kernel" and execute the code quoted in my initial post, the code executes without any error. This is not a workaround, but I hope it's a clue.

I'm curious whether any Win 10 users are able to get better results than I'm getting?

Interesting. Thanks for the information.

I'm on Win 10. I re-installed Mathematica on February 18. I'm afraid if a re-install fixed it for me, the fix would only last a few days.

I do think Audio[] worked for me once at the start of yesterday, but I'm unable to get it to work now.

When I attempt to Import[] a WAV file, Mathematica just beeps and fails. I'm just asking it to read numbers from a file; I'm not even asking Mathematica to play any audio on my audio-interface.