Ok, so I guess everyone's already moved over to other threads, but just in case, let it be known that reverting to an older version of the Realtek audio driver (from April 2015) worked for me as well...

Gotta say - it's been quite some time now and it has still not been fixed. I am regularly checking my DELL updates for a fix from Realtek as well, but nothing. It's also still not the end of the...

Well, sounds more like a different problem with a similar result. For my part at least iTunes is just as much affected as anything else, it's definitely a system-wide issue. It's more noticeable...

Hmm, after the first, shall we call it tiny service pack for Windows 10 yesterday, I could have sworn that the audio issue was gone, but after rebooting my PC today, it's back, unfortunately. Too...

Seems like the combination of Windows 10 and a certain Realtek sound card is the problem, as I am having the same issue on my DELL XPS One 27 (2720) (like Emmellar).

Hopefully a future update on...