Some additional (and background) info:
As far as I know Foobar2000 and Windows media player donāt use Kernel streaming.
Foobar2000 uses WASAPI (in exclusive mode) or ASIO (with a ASIO plugin installed). Windows media player always uses the default output settings in Windows (and can not do WASAPI (exclusive), ASIO or Kernel Streaming at all).
Your issue seems to narrow down to Kernel Streaming since you donāt have the problem with ASIO and WASAPI in Audirvana as well. As said, some hardware does not play nice with Kernel Streaming. Kernel Streaming is an ancient technology in Windows and Microsoft replaced it with the more modern WASAPI (Windows Audio System Application Programming Interface).
Both (KS and WASAPI) offer a complete bypass of the Windows audio processing system (volume mixer and dsp/resampling etc.), so (in theory) should give the same results. Kernel Streaming is āclosest to the hardwareā, closely followed by WASAPI which has a more modern and friendly interface for developers than the āancientā Kernel Streaming.
All This additional info sadly does not change anything to the tips already given by @Antoine and in previous posts:
- Experiment with the settings in the previous screenshot.
- Experiment with other settings than āextremeā in Kernel Streaming.
Here some links with additional info about KS vs WASAPI vs ASIO: