Pulse Audio Fails to reach 7.1 Surround

[Erick Couts II]

I have attempted every possible fix that I could find online, but Pulseaudio and Ubuntu Sound Settings fails to set 7.1 surround sound audio when it's selected. I have my 7.1 surround sound system connected through ARC connection on my television. While Windows and other Linux Distros can find it, Ubuntu has failed to work properly in changing the Pulseaudio settings for the past 3 releases at least. I'm willing to play around with the settings some more, but I don't have days to spend on it after I spent over 6 hours trying to fix it once. I've dug through settings and manuals alike.
If it doesn't work as intended, then it doesn't work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-9.9-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 18 02:42:47 2023
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-10-15 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2018
dmi.bios.release: 5.11
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P3.60
dmi.board.name: X99 Professional
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP3.60:bd06/05/2018:br5.11:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnX99Professional:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:skuToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
modified.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: 2023-10-18T02:34:08.524529
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: 2023-06-07T22:26:00.302860