Thanks for the reply!   Sadly I don't think I'm going to go any further for now.  I spent the last hour trying various settings combinations and nothing seems to help.  I had already tried setting the CPU governor in tips and tweaks.  I tried setting the emulator pin to 2,3 (after removing those cores from the VM)  and when that didn't help I tried only the last 8 threads to the VM to try to isolate the CCX which was something I had considered and tested already.  Still major stutterin