Audio drops out in Premiere Pro CC

Hello...
Since the last Adobe Cloud update, I have found the audio tracks drop out after a few seconds playing... The level meters suggest audio is still present but nothing is actually audible. Pausing and resuming playback restores audio but only for a few seconds.
Up until this issue, I had no problems with audio.
Video seems unaffected.
I am running on a PC platform:
Windows 7 ultimate
Intel hexacore 3GHz
32Gb RAM
Nvidia GTx 770
System HD is an SSD
Video are 2 internal HDD's running in RAID 0 @ 6Gb/s
It seems this issue is a recurrent one... I have tried the solutions indicated for the past occurrences but with no avail.
Suggestions would be appreciated :-)

Steve736, would it be helpful for others to submit a bug report? I have used Adobe products for over 10 years and have not ever done that. If it is valuable for them to here it from more than one user, count me in. It seems to be an issue of interfacing with audio equipment because some Mac users have the problem and some, like me, don't. Mac hardware is fairly consistent so it must be easier to narrow down on a mac if its a hardware or drive disagreement. I have not come up with a workaround on to prevent it on the PC side. I have turned off some of the NVIDIA audio drivers installed, turned off Mercury CUNA rendering. I have played audio and playback settings in preferences, made the buffers larger. The only thing I can count on is that it takes awhile to start and once it starts freezing and creating the errors, it just gets more and more frequent until I close the project and reopen it, then it takes awhile and then slowly gets more frequent again.

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