Thunderbolt display speaker USB output not selectable

Hi There,
My thunderbolt display was working perfect before I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Now I found it doesn't let me select ThunderBolt display speaker USB output.
it will jump to internal speaker right away once I select USB output.
I had ensured no any other USB connected to my MacBook Pro.
I am very sorry that the Chinese Snapshot attachment, but you can easily guess what the item is.
My Macbook pro is 2011 made, with 2 GHz Core i7, 16GB 1333 DDR3, now OS is 10.8.4,

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