Sound drops out for split second every few minutes.....

I found a program called LatencyMon.  Here's what it had to say:

CONCLUSION
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Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more ISR routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:01:29 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.

You might try these steps in the link.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/high-dpc-isr-latency/0bbe509a-54ac-4874-847d-7...

You should also try playing from the laptop without the speakers. 

Did a BIOS update and that has definitely helped. Still getting higher latency but not as bad. Going to try some of the other steps now.

EDIT:  Doing a search for "Windows 10 latency" yielded a lot of good results.  

Updated all drivers and disabled pretty much every piece of hardware I don't use (Wimax, Wifi, etc.).

Latency looks better in LatencyMon presently.  Fingers crossed.