After Effects CC audio mapping problems

Whenever I start After Effects it seems like it takes over control of my system audio output settings.
For instance if I am listening to a song on iTunes and then start After Effects, I will only hear iTunes when AE is active from then on. Audio preview and scrubbing in After Effects works well, and all other audio works as they should but only when using After Effects. If I switch back to iTunes it goes silent. This goes for all other audio on my computer.
To get the audio back I need to go into system preferences and swich back and fourth in my settings. But if I then go into After Effects again the problems are back. It feels like After Effects hijacks my system audio setting when it is started. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
I am running After Effects CC 12.2.1.5 on OSX Mavericks.

Hey there, I'm having the exact same problem (Mavericks 10.9.1, AE 12.1).
I use an H/K AVR 165 with 5.1 as my default audio device (HDMI). Are you using HDMI as well? Because every other connection works (cinemadisplay speakers, optical), only when I have HDMI as my default the remapping occurs.
Waring: don't try to pick After Effects (12) or Premiere (7) as default in the sound-options in osx preferences (not the MIDI device, the aactual sound output in the preferences), I tried this yesterday and at first I thought it worked (I picked Premiere, I was just testing and curious) but as soon as I started Premiere, the whole system crashed and i needed several safe boots to get my Mac working again (it froze right after the login).

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