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Parasound Halo Integrated.

Hi all, I need some help. I just bought a used one for use in a second system. One of the reasons I decided upon it was the fact that I thought it supported Airplay. I was looking to stream to it wirelessly from my Macbook Pro. I was thinking I could hook it into my home network and that would be all I needed to do. Obviously that's not the case so I hoping someone is in a similar situation and could lend me a hand in finding a way to stream to it wirelessly. Thanks in advance!!
michaela

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robelvick
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@michaela

I had a Parasound Halo Integrated, just recently. It doesn’t have built in wifi. The only way you’ll be able to stream wirelessly to it, is if you buy an additional component to connect to the Parasounds’ USB/OPT/or COAX inputs.

I used an Apple TV (gen 2) via Optical Toslink with good success. 

Right now I’m using an Aries Mini (streamer) and that supports Airplay as well.

Hope that helps, and good luck.
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I had my Halo Integrated with LS50s for about 2 months.  It was a wonderful match.  Everything sounded extremely neutral, with perfect balance.

I was however not impressed with the Halo's phono stage, or DAC, compared to my separates.  I ended up selling the Halo, only because I felt I wasn't getting complete use of everything it offered.
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@213runnin The phono stages were an iFi iPhono2 and a PS Audio NPC, and the DAC was Wyred4Sound DAC2se.
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