I've read through this whole post and havent found a solution. I think this is because my problem is a little different.
I play Arma 2 vanilla and the sound works fine. Whenever I run OA; CO or any of the DLC I get no sound!
This all happened after my computer shut off mid-game online. I was using the ST mod set.
I unistalled and removed all mod folders and reinstalled and that did not resolve the issue.
It has to be something to do with some AO file because Arma 2 works just fine.
I have win7 64-bit.
I use turtle beach x11 head set
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver RTKVHD64.sys
I've run dxdiag and it doesn't detect any problems
I've set my speakers to default
Every time I do the "verify integrity of game cache" action it always tells me one file wasn't validated and needs to be reaquired