I also was thinking about an audio quality testing application that might be useful and came across this video on an app called Noise Torch. In the video he talks specifically about producing podcasts, zoom calls & jitsi meetings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzN9rYNeeIU I also came across an article that talked about the difference in driver quality between Windows and Linux. FOSS does have a cost, unfortunately. I suspect this could also play a role. There are also Linux multimedia distros that've been optimized for AV production. "io GNU/Linux works well as a live boot operating system, but can also be installed to a hard drive. Its main highlight is professional level audio production, " Reference - https://linuxconfig.org/best-multimedia-linux-distributions It might be worth looking into what this distro does differently to produce "pro level audio production." It might not just be a hardware problem.
