Sound quality for skills is horrible, sounds stuttery/cut off

I played without sound for a while so I'm not sure how long this has been an issue for, but the quality of my skills' sounds is horrendous. It's particularly noticeable with the Celestial Kinetic Blast MTX - if it detonates near my character/the center of the screen it sounds fine, but if it's even remotely far away it sounds like garbage and stutters in and out. Also happens with things like Herald of Ice, normal Kinetic blast, etc. The music and other sounds are fine throughout all of this, the dialogues always fine, just not sure what the issue is. Any ideas?

disable ambient sounds and music. see if that helps. usualy have to do that whenever i use a slew of lightning golems with high golem cooldown reductions, most notably in oriath act 5 the sound will cut off with a lot of skill spam of any kind