I’ve tried various ports on the motherboard and when directly connected to the same ports that the KVM switch was then there was no issue. I’ve been wanting to replace my kinda crappy board anyways so maybe the new one will fix it whenever I get around to it. I think I’m going to try to just use 3.5mm cables instead of USB and hope it works fine over the KVM switch. Just ordered a few.

I don’t get any audio drops on my work laptop running Windows
Tried different KVM switches
and different ports
with all of the same devices connected but my speakers connected directly to my computer then I get no drops

The first one was powered by 5v off a dedicated usb charger. The new one uses an A/C adapter