sound settings

Listening to music (Pandora) on OS X host and starting a OS X guest VM instantly kills the sound stream. No sound. I disabled sound in the VM configuration but no avail. Seems the VM eats up the sound stream somehow. This is not the case with Linux Guests on the same machine.

I did try to search the forums for a similar topic, but either my search terms weren't right or I truly have a unique case. Any help is appreciated here! I'll start by explaining what I am trying to do: I use Parallels to run Windows 10 for a number of reasons, one of which is to play games...