sergkar's post in No sound was marked as the answer
FYI: Update to the latest stable version didn't help. I did deactivate all other sound devices, started DCS, alt-tabed back to windows and set the audio device for DCS specifically from standard to that device. To no effect.
Then I restarted (again) my PC, reactivated the other devices, started DCS and had sound. Back to system preferences the device had automatically switched back to standard. Restarted again and it still worked! Crazy.
If I could I would now place my PC into read only and refrain from any further updates. That was the weirdest behaviour I've ever encountered ...
