diff --git a/src/app/features/settings/general/DenoiseTester.tsx b/src/app/features/settings/general/DenoiseTester.tsx
index 8acb52dc1..5f684f1ab 100644
--- a/src/app/features/settings/general/DenoiseTester.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/settings/general/DenoiseTester.tsx
@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
     try {
       const ctx = new AudioContext({ sampleRate: sampleRateFor(model) });
       const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(MIC_CONSTRAINTS(nativeNS));
+      if (!mountedRef.current) {
+        stream.getTracks().forEach((t) => t.stop());
+        ctx.close().catch(() => undefined);
+        return;
+      }
       const source = ctx.createMediaStreamSource(stream);
       const inAnalyser = ctx.createAnalyser();
       inAnalyser.fftSize = 1024;
@@ -182,7 +187,12 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
     timer: number;
   } | null>(null);
   const clipRef = useRef<AudioBuffer | null>(null);
-  const playRef = useRef<{ ctx: AudioContext; source: AudioBufferSourceNode } | null>(null);
+  const playRef = useRef<{
+    ctx: AudioContext;
+    source: AudioBufferSourceNode;
+    model: DenoiseNode | null;
+    gate: AudioWorkletNode | null;
+  } | null>(null);
   const [recording, setRecording] = useState(false);
   const [recDb, setRecDb] = useState(-100);
   const [hasClip, setHasClip] = useState(false);
@@ -208,6 +218,10 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
   const startRecord = async () => {
     try {
       const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(RAW_CONSTRAINTS);
+      if (!mountedRef.current) {
+        stream.getTracks().forEach((t) => t.stop());
+        return;
+      }
       const ctx = new AudioContext();
       const source = ctx.createMediaStreamSource(stream);
       const analyser = ctx.createAnalyser();
@@ -249,7 +263,15 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
     }
   };
 
+  // Bumped whenever a playback starts or stops. An in-flight `play()` compares
+  // the generation it claimed against this after its awaits; if it no longer
+  // matches (a newer play, a Stop, or unmount happened during model load) it
+  // discards what it built instead of orphaning it — closes the rapid-click /
+  // unmount-during-load leak.
+  const playGenRef = useRef(0);
+
   const stopPlayback = useCallback(() => {
+    playGenRef.current += 1;
     const p = playRef.current;
     playRef.current = null;
     if (p) {
@@ -259,6 +281,15 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
       } catch {
         /* noop */
       }
+      try {
+        // Mirror stopLive: dispose the model node (worker/WASM) + gate, else each
+        // A/B playback through a model leaks a DeepFilterNet/DTLN worker.
+        p.gate?.disconnect();
+        p.model?.dispose();
+        p.model?.node.disconnect();
+      } catch {
+        /* noop */
+      }
       p.ctx.close().catch(() => undefined);
     }
     setPlaying(null);
@@ -268,37 +299,73 @@ export function DenoiseTester({ model, useGate, gateThreshold, nativeNS }: Denoi
     stopPlayback();
     const clip = clipRef.current;
     if (!clip) return;
+    // Claim this generation AFTER stopPlayback's bump; a later play/stop/unmount
+    // moves it past `gen`, signalling us to discard what we built below.
+    const gen = playGenRef.current;
     try {
       // bufferSource auto-resamples the 48 kHz clip to the context rate, so DTLN
       // gets the 16 kHz it needs while raw/RNNoise/Speex stay at 48 kHz.
       const ctx = new AudioContext({ sampleRate: sampleRateFor(playModel ?? 'rnnoise') });
       const source = ctx.createBufferSource();
       source.buffer = clip;
+      let playGate: AudioWorkletNode | null = null;
+      let playModelNode: DenoiseNode | null = null;
       if (playModel) {
         let head: AudioNode = source;
         if (useGate) {
-          const gate = await buildGateNode(ctx, gateThreshold);
-          head.connect(gate);
-          head = gate;
+          playGate = await buildGateNode(ctx, gateThreshold);
+          head.connect(playGate);
+          head = playGate;
         }
-        const denoise = await buildModelNode(ctx, playModel);
-        head.connect(denoise.node);
-        denoise.node.connect(ctx.destination);
+        playModelNode = await buildModelNode(ctx, playModel);
+        head.connect(playModelNode.node);
+        playModelNode.node.connect(ctx.destination);
       } else {
         source.connect(ctx.destination);
       }
+      // Superseded while the WASM/worklet loaded (another Play, a Stop, or the
+      // panel unmounted)? Tear down this now-orphaned graph instead of storing
+      // it — otherwise its worker/WASM + ctx would leak and its audio would play
+      // over the winner.
+      if (playGenRef.current !== gen || !mountedRef.current) {
+        try {
+          playGate?.disconnect();
+          playModelNode?.dispose();
+          playModelNode?.node.disconnect();
+        } catch {
+          /* noop */
+        }
+        ctx.close().catch(() => undefined);
+        return;
+      }
       source.onended = () => {
         if (playRef.current?.ctx === ctx) stopPlayback();
       };
-      playRef.current = { ctx, source };
+      playRef.current = { ctx, source, model: playModelNode, gate: playGate };
       source.start();
       setPlaying(label);
     } catch (e) {
       console.error('[denoise-tester] playback failed', e);
-      stopPlayback();
+      // Only tear down if we're still the current playback — a superseded
+      // invocation must not stop the winner that replaced it.
+      if (playGenRef.current === gen) stopPlayback();
     }
   };
 
+  // Guards the async getUserMedia paths: if Settings closes while the mic
+  // permission prompt is open, the resolved stream/ctx would otherwise be
+  // created after the unmount cleanup already ran, leaking + setState-after-
+  // unmount. Own [] effect so it only flips on real unmount.
+  const mountedRef = useRef(true);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // Set on mount (not just cleared on unmount) so a setup→cleanup→setup
+    // remount of the same fiber (StrictMode/Activity) leaves it true.
+    mountedRef.current = true;
+    return () => {
+      mountedRef.current = false;
+    };
+  }, []);
+
   useEffect(
     () => () => {
       stopLive();