Followed your directions again tonight Jake but had no luck...just kept getting same results I've been getting.
Decided to Google around to see if I could find a fresh copy of the ALC275 kext to download...thinking maybe the copy I have is corrupted. In my searches, I came across https://github.com/insanelydeepak/Patched-AppleHDA-for-Mac-OS-Sierra-10.12 which led me to download the kext for Audio ID 28 from here https://bitbucket.org/insanelydeepak/hdaenablers-applehda-for-hackintosh/downloads/
Upon installing the kext, look what happened