@simmemoirs I am SO sorry for having been gone over a year (I had been dealing with a family member's cancer so the last thing on my mind was a Sims sound bug - good news is the cancer is gone!), but annoyingly enough, the sound issue is still present. At this rate I'm not sure if it is an actual sound issue or just how the game is set up, but no matter what I use, it still persists. I've done repairs on the game for other things and none have touched the weird sound issue, and my monitor doesn't have speakers so I've tested it with my headphones (both wired and wireless), and it's still the same.