toleda

Apologies; busy, traveling, etc., August likely.

Thanks for the feedback.

It is normal audio must be reinstalled after a beta update because each beta is a new install over the existing install. Your "fix" is not credible for 10.13. Attach...

macOS does not touch a single bit on the the digital audio stream, passthrough only.

Terminal output?

Apologies, only support codecs I own with resources available

Thanks. The lower case Roman numerals don't work very well, i.e., Audio ID: i. cloverALC is specifically for onboard audio. For HD3000/HD4000 HDMI audio, Audio IDs: 1 and 2 do...

No, HD4600 HDMI audio does not use dsdt/HDEF. Audio ID: 3 works, however, Orange is not supported. No reason to use Audio ID: 3 with HD4600 HDMI audio.

No idea; no specs, no IOReg, no script output, ...

Again, neither has anything to do with other. See README/Problem Reporting.