Audio is popping and lagging in VSE

I’m having some audio problems with the VSE in Blender 3.0.
Ever since I installed the Audacity tools plugin, the audio in the VSE constantly pops and stutters. Disabling the plugin didn’t help. Uninstalling the plugin still didn’t help. It’s not due to compression, since I tried packing the audio files and working with .wav files, it still has these problems. I also tried reinstalling Blender, resetting the computer, updating the audio driver, nothing seems to work. The audio still has these problems. I also have an older version, version 2.91, installed. It doesn’t seem to be affected and I don’t dare install the plugin. This is a very strange problem and I am not sure what to do to fix it. Any suggestions?