Generally spaking this is when your audio drivers are doign 'weird' things

I have almost universally found that the 'audio enhancement' tools from these vendors, do literally the exact opposite. They cause so many problems, cause games to have issues, are so poorly written, that uninstalling them fixes so many problems people have

If modern windows had not segregated the HAL layer from the application layer, your system would likely be BSOD-ing every other day with the junk these audio makers throw on your system.