Thank you all for the thoughts and suggestions.
I was actually using a Logitech G930 along with the on-board sound. I didn't realize the G930's transmitter was more. In fact, it's a whole sound card on a USB stick. So, I disabled the on-board sound. That cleared up a lot of the complications in the windows audio configuration options.
I did a little more reading in the forums and decided to adjust my page file from 4096 MB to 512 MB.
I guess there's no way to toggle off VOX.
I'll have to try the new sound configuration another time.
Presently, I'm offline only, but I shall return.
Thanks again fellas.
Stalwart