If I uninstall Control Center and reboot, the generic 2013 drivers that Windows installs playback sound flawlessly through my Audiobox USB 2.0 (but these drivers obviously won't be enabling the recording features). Then as soon as I download the latest PreSonus drivers (v2.8.40), all manner of snaps, crackles, pops appear. This would seem to indicate some kind of software problem, as opposed to hardware.
Is there another driver or some other fix I can employ to solve this problem? It's wild to me that generic 2013 Windows drivers seem to be superior to PreSonus' own 2020 drivers at utilizing its hardware to playback sound.