VR and surround

Good morning, So every time I think I have my problems with 5.1 surround sound resolved, it seems to crop up again.  The good news is that I definitely have 5.1 audio coming from MSFS 2020 and it sounds freakn fantastic.  BUT, as soon as windows mixed reality launches when I switch over to VR, my audio switches over to 2.1 audio and I loose the surround sound in my speakers.  I do have the option in WMR to not switch audio over to the headset checked in but that does not stop the program from turning off 5.1 audio even though the audio is coming from my 5.1 speaker set up.  I tried searching the internet and it seems that the common answer is to use headphones which is not what I want to do as I have a great 5.1 set up with my speakers.  There has to be a way to bypass WMR taking control of the audio on my system but I can't find it.  Does anyone know of a way to retain the 5.1 audio coming from MSFS while using virtual reality.  5.1 sounds awesome and virtual reality puts you in the cockpit, there's got to be a way to have both.

Thanks, LouP