PC: Audio Glitches making game uplayable

I have audio cut outs / stuttering only when I use my headphones for this game. Not sure what the issue is. Changing the sound settings in game to headphones doesn't seem to fix it. My sound card has my headset as well as an optical out to my stereo for surround and dolby digital. Whenever I want to use the headphones I switch them to my primary sound source in win sound settings and turn of the stereo. Works fine for everything, except this game for some reason. It makes it really hard to play with headphones on, but I have to do it that way at night to cut down on noise for other people sleeping. 

Seems my problem is not isolated:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Audio-Cuts-in-and-Out/td-p/3996303

This is EXACTLY the issue, the people in this thread describe 100% the same problem I am having

Has bioware acknowledged this issue? Is it likely to be addressed in an upcoming patch? or can we expect to be on our own?

I am pleased to see that I am not the only one with the problem. (Not to be confused with me being happy others are suffering as well mind you, but rather that I am not totally isolated is a positive) That being said, it does not seem widespread and that has me concerned that it will be chawked up to being of low or negligable priority for the developers to address.

Try disabling origin in game overlay.   I had some audio issues and that fixed it completely.

Thanks for the suggestion, though had done that already. Do appreciate any suggestions though even if they do not solve the problem.

Anyone else have any ideas?

If this was any other game I would just put it aside and try again in 6 months after some patches etc. But this is DAI, been waiting for this and Witcher 3 for years, being unable to play it due to this bug is really dissapointing =(

Throwing in the towel,

Just purchased a brand new sound blaster z card and a new 7.1 speaker set and guess what. Issue is 100% the same. I have no idea what to do now, besides building a new pc tower for an estimated 2500 bucks which i absolutely do not have.

I concede, this one has me beat.

One more thing to add,

The audio issue is tied directly to performance. Lowering your graphic settings does make the issue occur less and less. That being said, even the lowest possible settings will not cure it. Just make it happen a whole lot less. Unfortunately, if it happens at all it's too much. This issue is truly gameplay ruining (at least for me).

Someone made a youtube video showing the issue so it can be easily understood. Since this is a problem that is hard to convey using worded description, in this video you can actually observe the problem occuring.

Listen to the wind sound, you can still hear music playing even when this sound cuts out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nulsf4u7xZ4&feature=youtu.be

A great many thanks to xRydis for providing this video to demonstrate the issue for everyone to properly understand.

Side note: While this video does demonstrate the problem, it does not demonstrate how severe the problem actually gets in game. You may think to yourselves "Wow thats really not that bad, there are much bigger issues to worry about than this." I assure you, the video demonstrates only the very minimal of effects the problem actually has. It is very rarely that discreet. Normally it is outright game breaking and overwhelming. I also suspect that every time the audio glitches it effects game performance as well thus further adding to the issue. So please do not assume that because that video displays the problem in a subtle manner that it properly represents the issue. It does not, but it does however allow people to see (hear) the problem in which we seek assistance.

My audio problems are even worse than this.