@musicullum you have the right question, I don’t have the right anwer. Its just a feeling… somehow… (and mentioned this a few times… at audio-reset / swtiching / whatever… the fallback mechanism might replace physical-connections to virtual-ones… meanwhile at “zzzzzz”-s they finally come out from physical…) so it’s just like… I can’t tell you, sorry.
I explained this problem - last say 2 yrs - in different ways, different computers, scenarios, situation. A steady “loopabkish zzzzzz” phenomeon just happened right today at clicking “reset audio” for “getting earphone out” up.
And now… checking my connections, reset-audio quickly replaced inputs to virtual-ins… and thats why had this idea today. I’m sorry can’t give more hints.