Firmware upgrade to 7.6 causes audio jumps

Not without but with video. Every now and then the streaming is getting glitchy and buffering problems occur even through the WiFi reception is great.

Just a guess, but it would explain the behavior you're describing... After I upgraded to 7.6 I noticed that the router was repeatedly dropping and re-establishing connections. You can look at the router log by double clicking on your express in the airport utility and selcting Advanced > Logs and Statistics. If you see a regular pattern of "Disassociated with station..." and "Associated with station..." messages the same thing is happening to you.

The only way I found to correct this was to downgrade back to 7.5.2. You can do this by highlighting your express in the airport utility and select Basestation > Upload Firmware from the menu bar (upper left side of your screen). You'll then be prompted for the version of firmware to upload. Select 7.5.2.

Hope this helps,

Dave

Getting the exact same problems here since the firmware update.

iChat also keeps signing in and out every few seconds. Tried using the 5 GHz WLAN instead of the 2,4 but that doesn't seem to help either.

As soon as I switch the Airport in mn iMac off, the "glitches" stop too.

I might have found a solution in another thread: Someone recommended to turn off the guest network feature. I tried it and so far it's working fine again.

I don't actually have the guest network option turned on.

I do think I've solved the problem, though. Since the update to 7.6 my 2,4GHz is suddenly set to channel 1. This used to be set to channel #10 because of two neighbours that are also using channel #1. After manually setting it back to #10 everything seems to be working fine again.

I'll keep you updated after I've had more time to test it.

Same thing here. I downgraded from 7.6 to 7.5.2 and the problem was solved.

Same issue with my AE. Downgrading to 7.5.2 solved it, but this is really a serious regression.

I also opened a thread about it in Hydrogenaudio to warn other audio quality aware users.

I have the same issues with the audio on 7.6.1 but I cannot downgrade on two of my Airport Express. It claims older versions are not compatible?! I can only choose 7.6 or 7.6.1. On one of my other Airport Express I can downgrade to a huge selection of versions and 7.5.2 solved the sound issue so I'm very keen to download on the other two too..

Please help. Do I need to sell them and buy an old version?!

I am having the same problem. I can not use Airpot Utility to back date to version 7.5.1. I only provides 7.6 or 7.6.1. I could "select other" but I am unable to simply download the update by itself. I use the airplay feature in my job. This is really important I get a fix. I cant have the audio cutting in and out all the time.

I'm having the same issue where sound cuts off from my AE; however, the problem is WORSE with 7.5.2. I'm streaming from an iPhone 4S. I'm thinking of taking it back ...