Pioneer DJM-V10-LF - Audio cut-offs when connected via USB to Windows 11 Laptop to use it's soundcard as standard output

I have issues with my DJM V10-LF - when I listen to my music from my laptop - being from Soundcloud / Rekordbox / AIM player ... the audio cracks or cuts off for some milliseconds in a random pattern. For example in one minute listening i have 5 to 10 cuts average which is really bugging me. The mixer is with the latest FW update, my laptop is a 2024 gaming model Acer Nitro V16 32GB DDR5 memory, 14 gen intel I7 CPU and RTX 4060 GPU, 2 TB of 7300 MB/s SSD. Windows is genuine. So I doubt the laptop is the issue. I use 1 meter standard long UDG USB B->A plugged directly into the 3.0 port of the laptop - no USB hubs.

The ASIO configuration currently is set to 96 000 HZ sampling rate. Buffer size is default - 256 samples / 5.8 ms. I tried earlier changing to 48 000 HZ and a higher buffer size - same issue. 

This is really annoying, please advise accordingly.