I've been having audio issues like popping/crackling when pausing, or listening to certain audio for a while now. this PC is less than a year old and has been having problems with my audio for a while now. used latencymon and got these results
also here is everything I tried that I can...
Every time I play a game in fullscreen or borderless window the video I'm watching starts to lag but if I launch games in windowed mode it fixes the issue.