Turn on FxSound, no music is playing, standby state, CPU and GPU power consumption increase by 4 watts each

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Hi @JDF2008,
Apologies for the delay in my reply; I was, quite simply, asleep.
I pinned my standard troubleshooting list to the top of the forum, it would be helpful if you could go through that first to perform some basic tweaking, e.g. installing the latest version, disabling Exclusive Mode, and the likes.

True.
Here’s a compilation of the threads on this topic, in chronological order:

  1. Report by user @Aromato
  2. Report by user @Audiofile
  3. Reports by users @cracky, @me_lon, @Lspeed, @romix
  4. Report by user @Pulsar

That being said, @bvijay recently addressed the CPU/RAM use issue in v1.1.19.0: