Frequent crackling in waveform mode, please help.

This is a problem that has persisted for a long time now, and it’s so frustrating.  I do a lot of work in waveform mode, cleaning up narration audio, and what always happens within a few minutes of starting, the audio begins to crackle.  This does not effect any audio or video outside of premiere, but while working with the audio it sounds like an old record player.  This is not an intrinsic quality of the audio itself, but something happening during playback. 

I am using Windows 10, an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core CPU, and GeForce 4060 Ti GPU. I have 64G of DD4 RAM, with less than 30% utilization while using Audition, using only about 18G with a 46G cache. While using the program I have 52G ram reserved for audition, using an SSD with about 160G free space as primary cache. In Task Manager, audition is only using about 200M ram.  CPU usage is negligible. 

So I can’t imagine that the problem is with ram, cache, or CPU, and for that reason, I don’t know how to stop it from happening.  I should have ample performance power and storage space using this computer, to run Audition 2024 with no lag or glitches. 

For months I have been working with constantly crackling audio wondering why I have to live like this, and I would really appreciate any guidance about how to solve the issue!  Or I swear this computer is going off my 8th floor balcony >.<

Thank you!

Update:  I just discovered by plugging my headphones directly into my computer that this is somehow related to my Teyun Q-12 audio interface, but I can’t understand what that could be. The device has a native sample rate of 48 KHz, so that’s what I’ve been recording at as well.  

Perhaps someone has some insight?  Thanks!