I just installed Ubuntu 20.10 and am enjoying it. One strange issue presents itself, though. Whenever I play a file with audio, whether from the internet or off my drive, I hear strange stuttering sounds. I hear them in mp4 videos on my drive in either VLC or Totem and in mp3 songs played with Rhthymbox. I hear them in the Spotify desktop app and in the Brave Browser when I play movies on Google Play. I hear this stuttering when I watch a Youtube video in Firefox. Note that when video files are played, the stuttering does not present any difficulties in the video, just the audio.

The stuttering presents for a second or two and then playback continues as normal. A short while later, the stuttering occurs again.

Does anyone else experience this?