Does anyone have a problem with AMD Drivers?
My driver is causing Clipping and Cracking Sounds in a very disturbing & piculiar way.
Except for 1 USB port, all other ports are causing major clipping.
Are you sure it is the driver, and not the motherboard’s USB implementation? Also, motherboards have USB ports that are ran off of the AMD chipset, and others that are via a third party chip (depending on manufacturer and model). I tend to use the ports with the highest bandwidth which are normally the ones ran directly off AMD’s chipset (I have an x570 Taichi). This is not to say that the motherboard itself couldn’t have physical flaws in the soldering and grounding which can also cause issues.
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I agree. Built an AMD AM5 gaming system using the Taichi motherboard and have had zero issues with AMD drivers (USB or otherwise). Thankfully my system has been very stable.
@Argha I hope you are able to find resolution quickly. Sometimes chasing these issues down can be a royal pain.
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Having faced similar situations in the past, my recommendation would be to uninstall all usb audio related drivers and then start to install only the required audio drivers and check the offending driver.
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I used 2070 Super Before and no there was no such issue.
I narrowed it down to a few things and Learned that it is only the driver issue. Not only I formatted the PC but I also borrowed an NVIDIA card and tested it.
Grounding is not an issue and seems like the motherboard also doesn’t. The reason is that - when I use Exclusive mode on Foober - Everything runs fine, but while gaming/YouTube, the bursts of Crackling and Popping occurs.
I have been facing it for a few months and as I said
Only one USB 3.2 Port is giving me Zero issues, so I use that only.
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@Argha I had issues a while back on my system, which went away after a I tweaked some things though I cannot remember what it was rn since it was so long ago. What helped me pinpoint the issue is a helpful (and free) app called LatencyMon. Once you run it and leave it running, going about your normal computing routine, it will scan drivers, running processes, etc. for the amount of time you want it to. Once done, you can read the log report to see where it found the largest spike in latency to help you track it down.
A hidden benefit, which also worked for me, is to just let it run in the background which oddly enough killed any of the latency issues I was having with audio artifacts and pops. It doesn’t take up a lot of memory or CPU % at all when running (from what I remember).
Hope this helps track down your issue, and others reading this that might have some. 
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Windows 11 just did an update. Check all USB ports and hubs and uncheck and power management boxes that may have been enabled by the update.
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OK So here it is.
I tried everything and nothing worked. So I switched to my work laptop which was Linux, and the problem solved.
I bought a 512GB SSD and installed Debian on it. Using it for a few days, everything got resolved.
There was a huge jump from Windows → Linux and I am not switching again.
Thanks for the support , means a lot.
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Did that, switching to Debian, F**K Microsoft
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I had a lot of success with Fedora, CentOS, and Manjaro Linux distro’s and have those in my options list. Being a gamer, having most of my games work through Steam using Proton was refreshing I must say. 
I’ll wait to see how Windows 12 turns out and also look into the latest flavor of macOS and will then decide which way I am leaning, sometime during the Summer of next year.
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