This is happening to me as well. Seems related to take lanes. I opened a project I had last worked in with 8.0, went to add a V-Vocal clip to a portion of one of the takes (via. the take lane), and after making adjustments, I was hearing both the original and the V-Vocal clip.
When I collapsed the take lanes and applied the V-Vocal effect to the same region from the collapsed track, it muted all three underlying takes, but I also heard nothing. The V-Vocal clip was added to the first take I had (which was muted), so since it remained muted, I heard nothing.
I moved the "keeper" take to the top, tried again, and this time, all three were muted and the V-Vocal was applied to the second (muted) take.
This is with the latest X2a update. Grrrrrrr.....