Audio selectively playing?

So my audio has been really weird lately. Random videos on youtube will be completely inaudible; nothing on tumblr plays sound at all; in minecraft, if i'm looking directly at the source of a sound or looking in the opposite direction of the source, the sound will completely silence; sounds refuse to play in both ears in minecraft as well; in borderlands 2, sounds will also go silent when i look away from the source, but not when i look directly at them. It makes no sense whatsoever and seems completely arbitrary as to what will play sound and what won't. This all started when i had an issue with framerate in all of my games, even after updating all of my drivers, and one of the solutions i tried was uninstalling all nvidia drivers and reinstalling them (via geforce experience). I've unplugged and replugged my headphones countless times. One noteworthy thing that happened was the first time i unplugged and replugged my headphones, which actually caused the issue to completely stop, albeit temporarily, but i haven't been able to recreate it since. I've restarted my computer multiple times since the issue starting, my drivers are up to date (obviously), my headphones are not broken (the audio acts strangely even when trying multiple different pairs of headphones, my speakers included)