I'm having the same issue with playback and also exporting audio. I've had to output via Media Encoder to get rendered audio in my exported videos. I've run the system compatability and no issues reported there.
macOS Monterey 12.7.5
iMac Retina 5K 27-inch 2019
3.6 GHz 8-core Intel i9
Ram 72 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB
Neil Wieteska