ITunes no longer plays song files in 5.1 - only in Stereo

Greetings!
Unfortunately, since a few days ago, iTunes has stopped playing my songs in surround sound and is instead only using my front speakers currently, while I can play the very same songs in surround sound using a different audio player. I've tried the following to no avail (in no particular order):
rebooted
completely reinstalled iTunes
used a System Restore Point from before the problem occured
reinstalled the driver for my Sound card (Asus Xonar DSX)
set Speakers to 5.1 in in both the Xonar DSX Audio Center and under Windows/Playback/Speakers/Configure
disabled my Realtek HD Audio device in my BIOS
installed Quicktime and set Audio to 5.1 under Preferences
switched between Direct Sound/Windows Audio Session in iTunes' Preferences/Playback
removed and reinstalled my Audio devices in the Device Manager
plugged in/out my USB Headset (which I think might've been the cause of the problem, since it usually causes iTunes to go into Stereo mode until I restart the program)
My specs are:
Windows 7 64-bit
iTunes 11.0.2.26
Asus Xonar DSX 7.1 Surround, latest driver
Teufel 5.1 Surround system (all speakers still work perfectly)
Sadly, nothing helped. And I'm sure iTunes can play the songs in surround, since it has been doing so ever since I first started using it (and it has been my go-to program to test my audio for troubleshooting up until now).
Thanks for any replies!

Solved it on my own. The solution was to set my main Playback device in the Windows configuration to Stereo instead of 5.1 - which also set my Channels to 2 in my Asus Xonar DSX Audio Center, which I had set to 6 previously.

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