Reply to Powered USB hubs and audio quality

I have a powered USB hub that doesn't work very well. When I run audio through it I can hear it hiccup or something. Like the latency is too low, which it isn't. I would run the audio out straight from my USB port on my computer but then I wouldn't be able to connect anything else.
Have any of you run into this problem?
Will this happen to any USB hub or am I safe buying a different one?
Any suggestions?