Zoom suppressing sound in new Airpods Pro 2

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Ever since I got new airpods, zoom is suppressing the sound and the volume coming through airpods vs regular speaker is about half of the capacity. I've adjusted volume to max in zoom, on Windows sound mixer, and have played with the different advanced settings in Zoom such as switching audio profile to original sound for musicians and turning signal processing by windows audio device to on and windows system audio enhancements to on. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and cleared the cache. Went to max volume on my airpods itself. Every available solution has been tried but the airpods sound quality is muffled because it's at 50% capacity. When I close out of zoom and try to use regular apps like spotify, it takes a few seconds to restore back to normal sound. What is it about Zoom that is suppressing the sound? Is it a new update? I tried swiping up on airpods 2 but that doesn't do the job either: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meetings/Very-low-volume-via-Airpods-Pro-2-on-Windows-11/m-p/1326...