Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS audio ticking when Android Studio emulator is running

I'm a Linux newbie. I recently installed Pop!_OS 22.04 because of its hybrid graphic driver. The problem is that when I open the Android Studio emulator, the system audio starts to crackle and there is a ticking sound whether when the audio is played by the emulator or other applications. There are some backgrounds to this. I had been using the system like this for a month now and the problem got worse. Even when the emulator was not running, the audio crackling continued. Turns out, one of my speakers gave up (front-right), and I suspect this issue to be the culprit. I thought the problem was with the sound driver, so I tweaked and tried everything I found on the web, and I may have changed ALSA, PulseAudio, or PipeWire configs. Therefore, a full reset of sound drivers would be much appreciated. I believe providing the Android emulator config would also help: 1. RAM Size: 2048 MB 2. Heap Size: 228 MB 3. Multicore CPU: 4 Thanks.