Audio Dropping out all the time in 2025

Is anyone also having an audio drop-off issue in 2026?

It is almost virtually to work like this. Audio keeps dropping off during editting. When i pause and replay, it plays fine for maybe 3 secs and cuts off again. 

If you have any fix for this please share.

I'm having the same issue. Doesn't matter what my input or output is set to. An example is just now I was playing back a video clip that I knew didn't have audio, but when I went back to my sequence which had audio a few seconds before, no longer plays back audio. I can see the sound meter moving, but no matter what settings I change, I still can't hear it. The only work around is to restart Premiere. Why is this even happening? 

Can you see the dropouts reflected in the audio meters, or are you only hearing them through your speakers?

Also, just to clarify this part: "I set the project setting to 32bit float, can I change the project audio setting back to 24" — Premiere Pro doesn't have a project-wide setting that changes the bit depth in that way. Internally, Premiere processes audio in 32-bit float by default, and this isn't something that can be changed. Any bit depth settings you may encounter usually apply to audio files during export, not the project itself.