WoW game sound intermittently cutting out while playing

I’ll be playing the game just fine (2020 M1 Mac Mini, 16 GB RAM, running Monterey 12.6.1) - game looks great and runs quite well, especially on moderate-to-good settings), and suddenly there’s a graphical hitch or pause (like a tenth of a second, very small) and the game sound cuts out completely. Not the the system sound or any other application, just the game. Adjusting Sound system prefs does nothing - changing output channels has no effect. Quitting the WoW client and relaunching seems to be the only handling.

This started back in Shadowlands, where it would happen from time to time, but has gotten MUCH more frequent in Dragonflight – tonight, for example, requiring game restarts every FEW MINUTES.

Any suggestions for a fix, by chance?

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